* Portals provide a single, integrated point of access to business information for decision-making and collaboration, and are one of the fastest growing markets within IT

* A complete tutorial and reference guide to Jetspeed, Lucene, James, and other open source tools used to build and deploy J2EE portals

* Introduces readers to each open source portal server and tool and shows how to build and deploy portal applications

* Explains how to develop an effective browser environment and Web services for the portal

* Authors are experts in portals development with open source tools and supply code-intensive examples for building real-world portals applications.