Students´ portal architecture based on SOA

The students´ portal represents a major part among university information systems. Lack of components distribution is a gap that leads to many problems in students´ portals in most of universities worldwide, which is due to tightly-coupled components in the current portal framework. This paper reviews the common features of the general portal structure. A comparison between the traditional students´ portal framework and the new students´ portal framework is presented. In addition, the paper discusses how to distribute the students´ portal components. To achieve the components distribution of the portal, Service Oriented Architecture [1] is adopted to address the missing distribution feature. The research contributes towards the higher education field worldwide by providing a components distributable framework that could be followed as a base for building university portals with distributed components.