Developing portals
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 web application that generates a portal site. It consists of a layout, themes, skins and portlets. Portal application development occurs in the workbench. The workbench requires a portal project. Portal projects can be imported from the WebSphere Portal (recommended) or created with the New Portal Project wizard. You can customize the portal site by changing layouts, styles, skins and themes. You can also add portlets to portal pages. To develop a portal application:
- 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 .
Related tasks
Adding portlets to portal pages
Developing portals in a team environment
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