Enterprise portals provide a single interface to aggregated and componentized
information. They significantly reduce the navigational issues inherent with
Web sites and make it easier to publish information from disparate sources.
The basic building blocks of enterprise portals are portlets, which are
reusable, personalized Web components displaying content from various data
sources.
One data source, XML, has become a widely used tool in enterprise portals.
The work needed to integrate XML with a portal is often considered a highly
technical and time-consuming task. For example, to publish XML into a portal,
developers usually think that programming is their only option. They go
through the entire process of using Beans, compiling XML Schemas, and
processing and binding XML instance documents. Developers go through this
process without considering the level of comp... (more)