Application Integration
Portals are much more than massive collections of static web pages with nice graphics and clean navigation. To engage users more deeply, they must support web applications, so portals need “hooks” to simplify development of those applications and their integration into the broader portal framework.
Simplified application integration is one of the benefits of choosing .NET as your application architecture. One of the goals of .NET is to embrace open software standards to improve interoperability and to simplify integration tasks (Figure 2.7).
Figure 2.7. .NET Application Integration
When properly executed, application integration ...
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