Portal environment and method for operating a portal environment

摘要

An improved portal environment (100) comprises a portal (110) used by a client (3) and connected to at least one external data provider (40) providing external feed data (42), wherein the portal (110) comprises a page model component (120), a portlet model component (140), and a web content manager (160) to run at least one portal application, and a feed integration service (173) facilitating data exchange between the at least one external data provider and the portal (110); wherein the web content manager (160) comprises: a web content rendering engine (162) capable of transforming a given content item into mark-up that can be rendered by the client (3); a feed driven list definition (164) defining a new web content type representing a query to define what kind of information is to be retrieved from the at least one external data provider (40) and how to handle the retrieved information to specify a corresponding content item; a set of predefined feed driven list presentation components (166) used to build a visual intended representation of the external data provider content items retrieved by the new web content type, wherein the web content rendering engine (162) comprises: a feed driven objects rendering extension plug-in (169) generating a query to the feed integration service (170) and providing a corresponding response to the web content rendering engine (162) based on the new web content type.