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1. What is the Oracle Portal ?

Oracle Portal, a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, offers a complete and integrated framework for building, deploying, and managing enterprise portals. Only Oracle Portal delivers a unified and secure point of access to all enterprise information and services to improve business visibility and collaboration, reduce integration costs, and ensure investment protection.

2. How is the information organized in an Oracle Portal ?

A portal is a collection of one or more page groups. A portal organizes the information in the form of portal pages.  

3. What Is a Portlet ?

Portlets provide a standardized, reliable, secure way to represent and package enterprise information. A portlet is made up of snippets of HTML that are added to a user-specified region on a page when the page is drawn.

4. What Is a Portlet Provider ?

Before portlets can be added, you must create an entity that owns the portlet, named the portlet provider, and register it with Oracle Portal. A portlet provider is a Java class or PL/SQL package that exposes a data source or application to Oracle Portal through one or more portlets.

5. What is the Parallel Page Engine (PPE) ?

The Parallel Page Engine (PPE) runs as a servlet and builds portal pages for display.

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