CHAPTER 15Creating a Portal Site with XML and Web Services

Web sites are moving from static sets of pages to dynamic personalized portals of information. Oracle has obviously recognized this movement, as demonstrated by its sophisticated Oracle Portal product, but what isn’t often realized is that this functionality can be set up on a smaller scale with the XML technology offered in the Oracle XDK and XML database. In this chapter, you will take the FAQ web site put together in the previous chapter and add Portal functionality to it. This will include building a login area, dynamic page areas, web service areas, and a customization area.

Designing the Framework

The idea behind this portal site is to build it to serve the purposes of a development ...

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