OracleAS Portal provides an environment that makes everything developers are trying to
do easy. It has a simple structure to set up and maintain security, a page design system that supports templates for easy page design and visual consistency, wizards for creating simple database-centric portlets and integration with advanced development tools like Oracle JDeveloper for advanced business requirements, a rich set of functions for content and content management, and a graphical system for administrators
OracleAS Portal is a mature environment that makes Web development easy, and, at the risk of sounding like an OracleAS Portal fanatic, fun