Developing a portal application involves creating a portal project,
customizing a portal site, and adding portlets to a portal page.
A portal application is a J2EE enterprise application that generates
a portal site. It consists of a layout, themes, skins and portlets. Development
of a portal application in the workbench requires a portal project, which
can be imported from WebSphere® Portal (recommended) or created with
the New Portal Project wizard. The portal site can be customized by changing
layouts, styles, skins and themes. Portlets can be added to portal pages.
To develop a portal application, follow these steps:
- Import or create a portal project, following the instructions for Importing portal sites or Creating new portal projects.
- Customize your portal
site with layouts, styles, skins and themes.
- Create portlets and portlet
projects and Add them to
your portal site .