What kind of expertise is necessary to develop content and/or applications for use with uPortal?
It depends upon what kind of content you want to deliver through the portal. For simplest content provision, you only have to know how to produce an html document. One of the defined kinds of channels for use with uPortal is an RSS (RichSite Summary) channel, the same format that Netscape uses for their Internet portal. If you create an XML document which adheres to this standard , the uPortal framework will handle formatting and presenting the output for you. To deliver content which requires complex user interaction, you’ll have to create a complete web application which uses a channel as its user interface. This approach requires that you have the XML, Servlets and SQL skills that someone developing a campus portal instance using uPortal has (see above) as well as experience with:ยท JDBC. It’s likely you will want your application to store information in and retrieve information from a database, so the ability to use the Java Database Connectivity API will be essential. The portal it
