What is a portal Server???
All the sites which act as a gateway to different sources of information are called as Portals.So what does Portal Server Mean ??.This question does come to the minds of many people when they hear the term "Portal Server".Actually Portal Server is a layer above the webserver or Application Server which give us the capability to launch webpages.And It does provide many extra features unlike the normal webpages.For example It provides:-
1.Personalization
2.Customization
3.SingleSignOn
Many of us might actually get confused with Personalization and Customization.
Customization is what users can do like change the colour of their home page and adding the channels that they want and other similar stuff.And
Personalization is what an administrator can give for a bunch of people normally under different organisations.
Now A days PortalServer is becoming a hit because of It's ability to render content in the form of Portlets.
Portlets are the interesting Technology by which i think every one would be fascinated.Many of us might have seen them around quite a bit these days.I will do try to cover them in my future blogs.
