For the latest information about what's new in Oracle9iAS Portal, refer to the Key Features and Benefits section of Portal Center.
Specific areas of enhancements include:
Wizard-driven user interfaces to expand the development capabilities replacing complex programming such as parameter passing and event handling.
Product interface lets you build more flexible portals
Content publishing and management improve capabilities such as the approval process and searching
Infrastructure to leverage the capabilities of Oracle9iAS in such areas as caching and containers for J2EE
Security to introduce the Oracle Internet Directory (OID) as the portal user repository and to enhance user and group management through the Delegated Administration Services (DAS).
Mobile device support to provide a well integrated interface to build portals for deployment on standard desktops or mobile devices
Import and export to provide more support for moving content between portal repositories
Integration with other products to provide a complete enterprise solutions with Oracle products such as Enterprise Manager and Web Cache, Ultrasearch and WEBDAV.