This gives developers a declarative way to create secure, custom portlets on existing J2EE applications. Enhancements to the Java Portal Development Kit (PDK-Java) provide a portal-independent user interface for creating and managing external portlet providers.When creating custom item types, you decide which attributes appear in the Add Item and Edit Item Wizards.Keep track of the items awaiting your approval with the Notification portlet find out where your items are in the queue with the Status portlet. Create your own review/approval chain, requiring an item to move to one or more individuals for review/approval.Display your inline text with greater flexiblity than provided by an HTML portlet. Simple text item types let you cut and paste HTML-along with.Page groups help you manage logical collections of pages, offering the same level of control previously provided by content areas.No more uploading and downloading items! Just save a document through your WebDav-enabled application and the content is automatically reflected in the portal. Update your portal content through your Windows Explorer.Oracle9 iAS Ultra Search lets you index and search Web sites, Oracle databases, IMAP mail servers, Oracle9 iAS Portal, files and user-defined data sources. Searching external repositories is a snap.No more flip-flopping between managing the content and controlling the way it appears. Complete all your page building tasks from a single interface.Prefer to code your pages using a JSP editor? Use the new Copy as a JSP feature to generate a page definition you can edit using whatever tool you choose.Page templates make it easy to enforce strict page design policies or to include portlets for common content, navigation, and so on.

Each region can host either items or portlets: you decide which. Pages and folders are now a single entity (called pages), on which you place both portlets and items.Building Pages and Finding Content Is Easier.

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