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Explain Portal architecture.- The core implementation of the portal is UI, hosted by a Portal server. The HTTP requests, HTML responses, and returning appropriate portal pages are handled by the Portal UI. Enterprise Web application also can be handled by the Portal Server.
- The portal architecture has the following:
Automaton Server:
- This server performs the management of job scheduling and implementation of a portal.
- It accesses all remote crawlers and profile services retrieved and stored from a remote database.
Image Server:
- This server hosts images and other web page content used by web services and a portal.
- With this configuration, large static files are to be sent directly to the browser without portal server impacts.
Search Server:
This server indexes and searches all the information, applications, communities, documents, web sites through portal.
Collaboration Server:
- Web content publication and management for portals and web applications are supported by this server.
- Its functionality can be accessed by a remote web services through Enterprise Web Development kit.
Content Server:
- Publication and management of web content for portals and web applications along with form based publishing, branding, templates, content expiration is allowed by this server.
Authentication Server:
- This server handles the portal authentication for users and remote services can be accessed through EDK.
Remote Servers:
- Web services written using the EDK are hosted by remote servers. The servers can be in different countries, on different platforms and domains.
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