Site Map - Getting Started

The next step is for us to layout the portal site map. We do this using a specialized portal XML-derivative called PSML (Portlet Structure Mark-up Language).

When designing your portal, you should consider how users will navigate around your site. In our example portal, we will allow for anonymous users to access the site, and also for authenticated users to access areas of the site where they are authorized (more on Site Security in the next tutorial).

In this tutorial, we will:

• 1. Create the anonymous PSML resource with a Tab control
• 2. Learn about PSML navigational components
• 3. PSML References
• 4. Create an authenticated user PSML resource with a Menu control
• 5. Learn about PSML layout components for portlets
• 6. Customize Menus with the Customizer
• 7. Customize Panes with the Customizer
• 8. Deploy

Lets get started. From the JPortal /tutorial distribution root directory, type:

Recommend bringing up these configuration files in your editor:

since we will reference them in tutorial 3.