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Web Portals
A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information (a portlet); often, the user can configure which ones to display. Variants of portals include mashup (web application hybrid), mashups and intranet Dashboard (computing), dashboards for executives and managers. The extent to which content is displayed in a "uniform way" may depend on the intended user and the intended purpose, as well as the diversity of the content. Very often design emphasis is on a certain "metaphor" for configuring and customizing the presentation of the content (e.g., a dashboard or map) and the chosen implementation framework or code libraries. In addition, the role of the user in an organization may determine which content can be added to the portal or deleted from the portal configuration. A portal ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portlet
Portlets are Pluggable look and feel, pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal. A portlet responds to requests from a web client with and generates dynamic content. A portlet is managed by a portlet container. Description A portlet is a Pluggable look and feel, pluggable user interface software component that is managed and displayed in a web portal, for example an enterprise portal or a web CMS. A portlet can Web aggregator (other), aggregate (integrate) and personalize content from different sources within a web page. A portlet responds to requests from a web client with and generates dynamic content. Portlets produce fragments of markup language, markup (HTML, XHTML, Wireless Markup Language, WML) that are aggregated into a portal. Hence, a portlet (or collection of portlets) resembles a web-based application that is hosted in a Web portal, portal. Some examples of portlet applications are e-mail, weather forecasting, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |