Planning on using Oracle Portal

I'm a web developer and our company is planning to use Oracle Portal. I am now doing my research as to what book should I be reading or online trainings that I ahould be attending. Please note that I have not tried any Oracle software yet. I dont have any knowledge about Oracle Technology. Given this scenario, Can I just go directly and study Portal or should I attend other Oracle Training first before doing so? What kind of training should I go into and what books would you recommend?
I hope to hear from any of you..
Romel Rayala

Oracle9iAS Portal Bible by R. Greenwald en J. Milbery (ISBN: 0-7645-4749-6) is a beginner's level Portal book.
You can download Portal from the website (it goes with 9iAS, iirc), but it's quite a big installation. You could also go to otn.oracle.com and in the left navigation bar, 3rd section, click 'Portal Studio'. Look around there, you can get a free login to a Portal installation and play with it.
Hope that helps!

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