# Developing Portal Applications

Developing portal applications involves using the WebLogic Portal framework and tools to surface applications in a portal user interface. It also involves adding personalization, campaigns, and behavior tracking to your applications.

You can quickly and easily integrate your own applications into WebLogic Workshop and apply WebLogic Portal's framework, tools, and services to them, or you can create new portal applications in WebLogic Workshop.

When you have integrated your existing applications into the portal framework or created new portal applications, you can create portlets to surface your application functionality in a portal interface.

Updating Portal Libraries with New Service Packs

Provides instructions on updating the WebLogic Portal libraries in existing portal applications and Web projects when product service packs are released.

Integrating Existing Applications into Portals

Explains how to integrate many types of applications into the WebLogic Workshop development environment and add the portal framework and services to them.

Developing a New Portal Application

Provides instructions on creating a portal framework and building different types of applications that you can surface in a portal interface using the portal framework. This section also includes instructions on managing content and users and adding special features to your portal desktops.

Building Portlets

Provides instructions on creating and customizing portlets, adding portlets from Sample Portal to your portal application, and establishing inter-portlet communication.

Related Topics

Guide to Development with WebLogic Workshop

Developing Personalized Applications

Developing Portal User Interfaces

Assembling Portal Applications

Securing Portal Applications

Portal Reference