[jboss-user] [JBoss Portal] - What exactly is the point of JBoss portal

Hi all, i am new to all JBOSS portal. I've been looking for a java/j2ee based web portal and came across jboss porta and a few others namely liferay, exo etc. What i am looking for is a web portal that i can use for an ordinary community website. This will include things like an article manager, a message board, a calendar, blogs and an image library. The site that i currently have is based on ASP but i would like to migrate this to a java based one so i started looking for a java based web portal. I do have some experience with Jakarta Tomcat and a servlet based java application that runs in the Tomcat container. When i started looking for the web portal i was expecting it to be a java application that would run within an application server e.g. Tomcat, Jboss etc. Reading about JBoss portal i am bit confused as to what exactly is the difference between the JBoss portal and a normal servlet container(App server). I would appreciate if someone can clarify these questions for me. 1. What is the difference between Jboss portal and other servlet containers. 2. Most of the literature i have seen about Jboss portal describes application deployed in the portal as portlets. Are these mini components that can be deployed to make up one application? For example am i right in thinking that i should be able to deploy a portlet for a message board and one for an image gallery? Can these be integrated to form one web application? 3. When i have installed installed jboss portal, do i then have to find a portlet that will be the web portal or is the Jboss portal the actual web portal? I wasnt sure about this because the example in the quick start guide shown a portlet running within JBP. 4. Are there example sites out there that use the Jboss portal 5. Are portlets freely availbable? 6. Is Jboss portal overkill for a middle sized website 4. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4154876#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...