Introduction

Purpose

This chapter provide the necessary information and guidance for integrating an application with CMS’s Enterprise Portal. This chapter describes the technical specifications to allow application integration teams to successfully integrate individual applications with the CMS Enterprise. Issues addressed in each topic of this chapter will help application integrators produce a specification that can be used to plan, implement, and test the application integration with CMS’s Enterprise Portal.

Scope

This chapter represents the specifications that should be used by CMS and CMS / Contractor partners for the CMS Processing Environments. It addresses specific architectural requirements of interest to IT architects desiring an overview of standards and policies for building J2EE Portlets and Remote Portlets in compliance with the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) standards.