Chapter 15. How to Implement a Successful Portal Project with WEF

Throughout the last eight chapters, we have covered several important aspects of developing portal applications utilizing WEF. From introduction to WEF to developing Dojo and multichannel web applications, you have learned a great deal about WEF.

You are ready and well qualified to start your next portal project utilizing the power and the flexibility of WEF. However, there are a few important portal project-related topics we would like to convey to you so that you can apply them to your next project.

Throughout the years, we have learned what works and what does not work from an overall project perspective. We have also identified a few important areas that are usually overlooked or addressed at a late time in the project. So, in this chapter we want to pass on to you the lessons we have learned from numerous portal projects we have participated in and point out the areas that are overlooked.

We want to make sure that when...