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A spin-off of the JBoss Portlet Container product is a portal called Simple Portal . As its name implies, Simple Portal provides an easy to use portal for small-sized sites that only require aggregation of portlets in portal pages, without the extra features of a full-fledged portal. In particular the following features are not addressed by Simple Portal:
| Security | Simple Portal relies on the servlet container authentication and does not provide any kind of security enforcement |
| Dynamic page creation | Simple Portal relies on JSP pages to create portal pages |
| Identity integration | Integration with identity systems is not provided, in particular access to the user's identity and profile |
On the other hand, Simple Portal is much simpler than a traditionnal portal server because it just consist in a few modules that only handles the basic protal concerns: the aggregation of portlet components in a web page.
The targeted use for Simple Portal are therefore restricted to: