Here's a practical tip for choosing a portal framework: make sure it's got a working tool for exporting and importing any sort of change to the portal structures.
Rationale: often those portal framework store the structure of the pages, their inter-relationships, the distribution and positions of portlet within the pages in a database, to allow the administrator of the portal application to apply fine-grained permissions to the various items. Usually the vendor provides an application to manage this data in a point-and-click fashion.
When you develop one of these application, it is not uncommon to refactor not only the application logic, but also the page structure and all of the portal-specific metadata. But what about deployment??? How you're supposed to migrate the structure to the staging environment, to the production environment, how you're supposed to keep those environment synchronized, and how you can temporarily break the synchronization to constrain an unfinished part of the portal to the development environment????
Of the portal products I've had the chance to see:
Rationale: often those portal framework store the structure of the pages, their inter-relationships, the distribution and positions of portlet within the pages in a database, to allow the administrator of the portal application to apply fine-grained permissions to the various items. Usually the vendor provides an application to manage this data in a point-and-click fashion.
When you develop one of these application, it is not uncommon to refactor not only the application logic, but also the page structure and all of the portal-specific metadata. But what about deployment??? How you're supposed to migrate the structure to the staging environment, to the production environment, how you're supposed to keep those environment synchronized, and how you can temporarily break the synchronization to constrain an unfinished part of the portal to the development environment????
Of the portal products I've had the chance to see:
- Oracle Portal 9iR2: Has an import/export tool, no amount of profanity could make it work
- ATG Portal 6.1.0: No import/export tool, synchronization done by hand.....
Hi
thanks for your tip in brif article.
Iam going make Intranet by oracle portall.but I don‘t know other
bogs in program. can you help me?
it is good for making office ‘s intranet.
regards
shohreh