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Foil 8 So What is a Portal?

From Distributed Objects and Portals for Earthquake Science GEM Meeting NPAC -- June 24-25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Portals to X are essentially the name for an Object web system where it is designed to address a particular application X
Portal to Syracuse University is by definition http://www.syr.edu
Portal to NPAC is http://www.npac.syr.edu
Portal to the world is http://www.yahoo.com/ or http://my.netscape.com/
Portal to latest news is http://www.cnn.com
Portal to computational chemistry is http://www.osc.edu/~kenf/theGateway/PSEactivities/CCM.html
Portal to stock trading is http://quote.yahoo.com/



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