This chapter discussed how to implement a portal page with portlets. It also showed how to customize the look and feel of pages and portlets through themes and the look and feel preferences. It helped us to understand the portal, portlet container, and portlets according to the JSR-286 specification—how to set up the portal, including installation options and deployment matrix, how to configure the home page and all the other pages of the intranet website. Then it introduced us to building basic pages, as well as setting up the portal pages. It also discussed how to navigate the structure of the intranet via portlets, for example, Site Map, Breadcrumb, and Navigation. It also showed us how to configure the portal. Finally, it provided guidance for bringing the pages together in action, sharing any portlet within a portal page, and for customizing the Control Panel.

In the next chapter, we're going to bring in users, user groups, organizations, roles, and permissions.