JAPS - java Agile Portal System
The portal has become the excellent instrument through which private companies and public authorities can promote themselves and offer always updated services and information.
In a changing world and an increasingly competitive and demanding market, promote its image has become a determining factor. In particular, for the public administrations that is turning into the need to promote and enhance its territory by providing updated information and services through portal that becomes the instrument of contact between citizens and public authorities.
The market offers a wide range of products, but when we need to choose the right product among a numerous systems we need to know what should be the essential requirements of a portal platform. The "quality" of a portal is a feature that is achieved only when all the actors and tools involved in the system production ensure high quality standards from a technological and methodological point of view. To this end it is essential that the entire production cycle of the software, which starts from the needs of the client, and passes through the development and testing of the system, to putting into operation, is managed and supported by a working methodology in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of not only the process but also the product.
This methodology must be supported by appropriate technology, in order to ensure, through the use of technological standards of the market, maximum portability, reusability, flexibility, scalability, and integration in order to ensure the openness of the software for subsequent additions. In addition, another key requirement, especially regarding the public administrations, is the support for the accessibility of contents according to Law 9/01/2004 N.4.
The Solution
jAPS (java Agile Portal System) is an "agile" framework based on Java Platform and open source components for the fast realization of informational web portals type and integrated content management systems.
The portals created with this system are the fundamental characteristics of multi-platform, multilingual and multichannel.
This system lets you build portals accessible in accordance with the W3C - WAI directives and the Stanca'04 law on accessibility of websites. The feasible portals are mainly oriented to the publication and sharing of information in the Internet, extranet (Vortal or vertical portals, horizontal portals) and intranet fields.