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 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:
  1. Import or create a portal project, following the instructions for Importing portal sites or Creating new portal projects.
  2. Customize your portal site with layouts, styles, skins and themes.
  3. Create portlets and portlet projects and Add them to your portal site .
Related concepts
Portal Tools overview
Portal development overview
Related tasks
Creating portal projects
Defining layouts
Working with themes
Working with skins

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