Getting Started with Oracle Portal

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I inherited a big Oracle Portal recently and was tasked to maintain, support and enhance it. But of course before doing that, I had to learn it. So, if you’re getting started with Oracle Portal, this post gives you a few pointers to more information about this product.

Oracle Application Server Portal 10g Release 2 (10.1.4) is a part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware. It is a declarative environment for building, deploying, and maintaining enterprise portals and Intranets. The latest Oracle Portal version as of the date of this post is 10.1.4.2. Here is the latest Portal upgrade maze:

Source: My Oracle Support Doc ID: 262623.1

You can find Portal in the Knowledge Navigator on My Oracle Support under
Knowledge Home > Oracle Technology > Fusion Middleware > Portal Tools > Portal

The Oracle Portal home page on OTN contains links to many useful and important Portal resources, there is no need to re-list them here.

I have also found the following helpful:

• Publishing Discoverer worksheets in Oracle Portal
• Blog: Oracle’s Portal or WebCenter?
• Portal and WebCenter: How to choose?
• How to prevent Oracle Portal edit mode
• Paper: Enabling enterprise provisioning and security with Oracle Portal [PDF]

In my quest to optimize the performance of our Portal, I came across these useful resources:

• Performance & Sizing
• Portal Performance Monitoring in Oracle Application Server Portal
• Improving Page Performance
• How Can I Maximize Performance?
• Tuning Performance in OracleAS Portal
• Timing and Caching Statistics

Moreover, a simple search for Portal on OraNA.info brings back many relevant hits from the Oracle blogosphere.

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Filed in Oracle on 11 Jan 09 | Tags: portal

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