[CMS-Forum] Re: CMS and Portal integration

[Bob Doyle]

Hi Marcelo,

The new CMS Wiki has a discussion on the term Portal that may help you.

See http://cmswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=CmsJargon#P
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Portal is widely used in web content management. It is also popular to 
describe Enterprise Information Systems. The term is seriously overused, 
leading to lots of confusion.

The basic web portal is a web site (or a web page) that (primarily?) 
contains links to other sites (or pages).

Since almost every web page has hyperlinks, we need more than this.

A portal can contain content, but portal content is there as an 
introduction or lead-in to more similar information on another page.

We can now distinguish different kinds of web portals - Directory 
Portals (like Yahoo), News Portals (like Slashdot), Navigation Portals 
(a frameset that repeats throughout the site with nav links), and 
Dictionary/Lexical Portals (useful for glossaries).

Enterprise Information Portals are variously called Corporate Portals, 
Business Portals, or simply Enterprise Portals. Today these portals 
always have web front ends. The main portal may have navigation links 
that take you to sub-sites (or sub-portals) with similar navigation 
schemes but different looks for divisions of the enterprise.

A portal template, like any CMS template, contains blocks where content 
elements or content objects will be placed. These elements may be HTML 
fragments, text converted to HTML on the fly, XML converted to HTML by 
XSLT, news feeds including Javascript or XML RDF (called RSS for RDF 
Syndication Services), images, applets, Flash files, etc. Collectively, 
these content objects are sometime called portlets, especially if they 
are assembled from smaller content elements.
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Others on the list may have more to add.

Marcelo Barreto wrote:

> Mr. Doyle,
> I´m sending this mail ´cause I´ve found your mail address in 
> cms-forum.org, I´m looking for the explanation about what does means 
> that a CMS could integrate with a portal, I mean, I have Jetspeed and 
> inside, like a portlet I have OpenCMS running; that´s integration?, 
> could you help me telling me the real definition of "CMS and Portal 
> integration".
> Thanks.
> Marcelo.
>
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