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Chapter 1

Portal Server Architecture
This chapter contains the following sections:
•What is a Portal?
•Types of Portals
•Portal Server Capabilities
•Sun Java System Portal Server
•Secure Remote Access
•Security, Encryption, and Authentication
•Portal Server Deployment Components
•Portal Server Architecture
•Identity Management
•A Typical Portal Server Installation

What is a Portal?

Portals provide the user with a single point of access to a wide variety of content,
data, and services throughout an enterprise. The content displayed through portal
providers, channels, and portlets on the portal page can be personalized based on
user preferences, user role or department within an organization, site design, and
marketing campaigns for customers as end-users.