Closing the Portal

This completes the extended version of your news portal. In only three pipelines, you have built a system that allows a user to be authenticated against a database and be presented with a news portal containing his or her configured information. In addition, the portal page is configured with the chosen color, and the list of news feeds can be altered by deleting or adding news feeds.

Instead of moving on to the next chapter, you could look at ways of extending this version and perhaps experiment with different components. As we have often mentioned, Cocoon provides various ways of writing applications. Which concepts you choose depends on the exact scenario the application has to cater to. Here are a few ideas to get you ...

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