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We've all heard the terms: portals, gadgets, portlets, dashboarding. But what does it all mean? And what role do Web services play in this exciting new world of componentized content? I would define "portalization" as the creation of an environment that gives the end user one-stop shopping for actionable content and collaboration. Portals don't create anything new; they merely give us comprehensive, personalized access to content that may reside in any number of repositories (see Figure 1). Moreover, portal environments benefit developers and implementers by providing a robust set of "out of the box" tools and features to ease application development and deployment. These tools include single sign-on (SSO) access to virtually any authentication data source, centralized authorization, logging and reporting, document versioning, and so on.   Content and Web services ... (more)