# Building Portal Applications

Welcome to portal development. This section of the help system provides overview information, reference topics, and procedures that guide you through the portal development process using the WebLogic Workshop Portal Extensions.

The WebLogic Workshop Portal Extensions provide more than a powerful, flexible, extensible framework for surfacing applications in portals. They also provide personalization, campaign, and behavior tracking services, a rules engine, JSP tags, integration services, intelligent administration, reusable samples, and a complete API.

Choose from the following subsections to learn more about WebLogic Portal, explore the power of the product with tutorials and samples, start developing or integrating your own portal applications, or access reference information.

Overview

Introduces portals and the WebLogic Portal architecture and provides guidance on getting started with WebLogic Portal.

Developing Portal Applications

Provides instructions on adding portal functionality to existing applications, developing new portal applications, and building portlets. This section includes information on integrating Web applications, struts applications, and Web services; building Web, JSP, Java Page Flow, and commerce applications; and creating portlets.

Developing Personalized Applications

Provides instructions for adding personalization and campaigns to your portal applications.

Developing Portal User Interfaces

Describes the WebLogic Portal user interface framework and provides instructions for creating a portal user interface and developing user interface resources. This section also provides guidance on building user interfaces to address accessibility guidelines.

Assembling Portal Applications

Provides instructions for assembling portals with existing portal resources, such as creating a portal file, adding books and pages to desktops, changing page layouts, changing the look & feel, and changing the shell.

Securing Portal Applications

Describes the security touch points in a portal development scenario and provides links to instructions that relate to those touch points. This section also describes how WebLogic Portal implements the WebLogic Server security service provider interface (SSPI).

Deploying Portal Applications (edocs)

Provides detailed information and best practices for deploying portal applications.

Portal Reference

Includes Javadoc for WebLogic Portal and partner APIs, a WebLogic Portal JSP tag reference, WebLogic Portal samples, and other reference information.

## Related Topics

Portal Samples

WebLogic Portal Tutorials

WebLogic Portal How Do I? Topics

WebLogic Portal Controls