Career in Portals & JSR 168 Portlet technology ............

Planning for a career in Portal Technology....! Well definitely you can per sue your career in Portals . Any S/w Engg working for Java, J2EE can per sue his/her career in Portals. Many companies (large + middle) are now practicing Portal Practice in their workplace. Giants like IBM, Oracle , Bea, Wipro, Infosys, Accenture and a never ending list are all having Portal practices at their end. Large Projects are now executed in this technology.
Options available are :
1) You can be a JSR 168/ JSR 286 portlet developer.
For this the basic requirement is to know Java with flavor of J2EE. Like Servlets, Portlets has its own lifecycle. You need a Portal Server to deploy your applications. Hence knowledge of Java is must.

2) You can be a Portal administrator .
Portal administrator plays with the environment ans configuration of the Portal. These persons has vast knowledge of Portal . Portal is like their child, can change its look and feel also. Hence they are called as Portal Specialist.

Is Portals - Next Generation Technology ...!

Portals helps you deliver exceptional Web experiences, extend your business assets, run your business efficiently and grow as you go. It provides a rich, declarative environment for creating a portal Web interface and accessing dynamic data with an extensible framework for J2EE-based enterprise application access. Portal customers can enhance their deployments with enterprise content management capabilities through Content Management Systems and can add Enterprise 2.0 capabilities to their existing portals.
Return Of Investment (ROI) is amazing with Portals leading major Tech companies to enter in this technology like IBM with WebSphere Portals, Bea, Oracle, LifeRay, JBoss and many others taking Portals to a new level.
All these things may say that Portals can be a next generation technology but its the
future and the Technology lovers who will decide that Is Portals - Next Generation Technology....!