The Portal technology in use has numerous capabilities.
Here is a current list:
Standards · AJAX · iCalendar · JSR-168 · JSR-127 · JSR-170 · JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) · JSF-314 (JSF 2.0) · OpenSearch Web Services · JSON · REST · RMI · Spring HTTP · WSRP · WebDAV Security · Pluggable Authentication · Email Verification · Granular Permissioning · LDAP Authentication · Session Management · Password encryption | Single Sign On · CAS · Siteminder · Support for JAAS, JOSSO, LDAP, Netegrity, Microsoft Exchange Performance & Scalability · Clustering at any combination of tiers (presentation, service, business logic, and database) · Page Caching · Load Balancing · Static Content Export · Portlet Performance Monitoring · Code Performance Monitoring Identity Management · LDAP Authentication and Synchronization · Oracle Access Manager · Novell Identity Manager · Sun Identity Manager / Open SSO · SiteMinder · Tivoli · Synchronisation with Active Directory · Easy user search and management capability · Account email validation |