A business platform can provide access to applications and provide for the
integration of resources with other applications, including internal and
external applications, services and systems. A portal framework included
within the platform can render portals including graphical user
interfaces for displaying and receiving content that can be used by
various applications. A portal framework can provide an interface to
various resources such that information received and displayed by the
portal framework can be exchanged with internal and external resources
using standards-based transport protocols, messaging systems, and
document types. An integration framework can be invoked to exchange this
information among applications and services. An integration framework can
provide access to resources by integrating the resources with an
application server. The portal framework and integration framework can be
implemented on an application server which can support enterprise
applications. This description is not intended to be a complete
description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features,
aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of
the specification, the figures, and the claims.