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 Enterprise Application that provides a portal site, and consists of a layout, themes, skins and portlets. Development of a portal application in Rational Application Developer requires a portal project, which can be imported (recommended) or created. 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.
- Customize your portal site with layouts, styles, skins and themes.
- Create or add portlets to your portal site.
Related concepts
Portal development overview
Creating portlets and portlet projects
Related tasks
Creating portal projects
Customizing portal sites