A term from Portals

A term from Portals
Crawler: a process that automatically according to a predetermined program, parts of the site or sites calls. For example, the crawler can be set so that certain pages of a website to read the file if it changed icon making and information to update the taxonomy.

Metadata repository, containing data display (Metadata) to the data portal is their structure. This metadata includes metadata related to each Taxonomy and has documentation.


Portlet: Portlet (Portlet) is a web component as the only known manufacturer portal. In fact, Portlet interface between the user and resource information (Datasource) received the user request and according to the requested page displays. Information that is made by Portlet, fragment called the language of HTML, XHTML or WML is written. Fragment Portlet for each other Portlet will be used. Portlet for other titles such as Gadgets, Blocks, Web Modules, Web Parts, there.

Categorization Engine: Sort responsibilities and information Toxonomy is responsible for. This sort may be based on metadata (Medadata) in the documentation, specific rules for sorting, the contents of documents, filters and search criteria is.

Filter: Filters often within specified files or folders Taxonomy search results, are used. Filter may be based on words such as "all the texts in which the word is IBM", or is based topic such as "if this text is similar to other text," and is based on a rule "If Client has a field value to IBM"

Index: a collection of information request and retrieval of information that can help. Index always a combination of full-text index for the Metadata repository for documents and content are.

Virtual Card: Index and Metadata repository within each of the documents or any part of it is a virtual card. This card contains the physical address each of the documents or their contents are. Moreover, several field values of card data display (Metadata) is. In fact, card symbol is documentation portal.

User Profiles: the portal for each user is stored information that used personalized Mygrnd site. Each portlet Portal to have access to this information and the pages according to this configuration information to users is appropriate Akhvasthay. User profile information also includes how the Home Portal and Portlet are user favorite.

Content Management System: Most enterprise portals as a part of "Content Management" respectively. Users who have access to this new information can enter their portals. After the appropriate information in the directory will be the portal taxonomy. It is worth noting that this section can upload pdf or doc format to enter. Also, it is possible that users can produce html pages and must change them.

EAI-Enterprise Application Integration: Various systems in the past there have been any organization. Each of the program itself, a good act, and even very useful databases are created, but the ability to communicate with each other are not. EAI can use all the services and applications the organization to put together as a unit system, users should be provided. But the complexity of each section has its own (parts purchasing, sales, human resources and ...) This very difficult and is costly.

That the ultimate goal of integrated information portal show regardless of the sources are different, EAI can be used as a portal to a new layer in such action requests that result is the same Post.

Development Standards and Protocols: Understanding standards for portals that are used, the most important steps is to develop a portal.

XML: the language to display the data often can be used. This language is similar to HTML with a lot of difference for the XML data transfer is used, but only the browser HTML (Browser) user that the page requested to how. While in most cases, XML itself with how the data connection and not the program receives the XML using XSLT and XSL data shows.

Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation-XSL, XSLT: XML files contain data of users that have special meaning, XSL contains rules for converting the data format that is viewable to the user. This format may be HTML for Web browsers, WML for wireless tools or PDF that is suitable for printing.