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The figure above shows what it would look like to integrate portals with IAM.
IAM can protect both types of portals under its SSO regime. The main
difference is that a true portal (i.e., the JSR-168/286 and WSRP kind) is seen
as a single application. “Menu page” portals and the applications they
aggregate are seen as independent web applications at the same level. Here,
the portal page is just a convenience for novice users. Advanced users can
bookmark and directly access the business applications behind it. With the
“true portal” model, access to an individual portlet is not even possible,
because portlets only run within the portal environment.
