Portal Structure

The LumisXP Server works with some important concepts for building Web solutions. These concepts include channels, pages, service instances, interface instances, and all their properties.

Channels and pages: Structurally, a portal consists of a set of pages, navigable through a browser, distributed in a hierarchical structure of areas - the channels. Each channel is composed of one or more pages and one or more subchannels.

The pages of a portal are made up of page fragments, each offering a specific functionality. These fragments are known in the Java world as portlets, and in the LumisXP product, as interfaces.

Services and Interfaces: A service is an application, whose functionality is utilized in the portal through its service instances and exposed through its interfaces.