Chapter Five. Portal-Oriented Application Integration
In this chapter, we briefly cover the notion of portals; specifically, their use as a form of application integration. Because so much is written about portals, it does not make sense for us to repeat a lot of content here; thus, the chapter is petite.
Focus on the concept of portals, and how we can achieve integration by bringing together information from many different systems within a single user interface.
However, you should also note that portals are not Web services. Indeed, Web services are an enabling technology that may be leveraged by portals. Many are finding the concepts of portals and Web services confusing because both typically bring forward the value of remote applications ...
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