Abstract:
In profit oriented business environment
professional skills and time are highly scarce and costly
resources. Even though a company’s top management has the
best professional skills, talent and time, if the
information do not flow to them at the right time, there is a
very little chance for the organization to survive in the long
run. This is the time where Enterprise Application Integration
made a revolutionary change across the business world. It has
given the business intelligence for its management to
consolidate relevant data for decision making. With the proper
identification of this critical problem, many solutions
popped up from around the world. Portal-portlet solution is one
such approach .While integrating portlets to portals, there are
many different approaches one can follow. Approaches we have
discussed in this paper include, using web services as portlets,
creating portlets from scratch, displaying a live web interface
through a portlet, using off-the-shelf portlets, and integrating
complete applications as portlets. Along with the discussion of
how to use these five methods, we have also analyzed the pros
and cons of the five methods along with working examples
taken from the open source project, the Jefe -Software
Development Workflow Management Solution (can be found in
http://www.jefesoIutions.com) which is built according to these
different approaches.
