Technical estimation for a portal project?

Is there anything out there which will help me get a reasonably accurate estimate of time required to execute a portal project?
I am not sure if generic software estimation tools based on use case analysis will calculate a realistic estimate.
TIA,
Mani

Not sure that I can answer your question, but I would like to give some considerations on this topic.
First and foremost you should let at least one (depending on the size of your project) participate on a BEA Portal course. The reason is that I've found that the Portal has a lot of opportunities, but when you are new to this product, it's impossible to know all of them. Having one experienced J2EE developer participate on a course will avoid a lot of workarounds.
I found Portal product very confusing to start with. Lots of tools, skins, skeletons, bulk loader, Unified User Profile, tags not particularly useful when running Portal, images fetched from the look-and-feel instead of regular img tags, entitlements, backingfiles, events, personalization and the list just goes on and on. On top of that you have the portal/portlet concept which might be a bit confusing for a regular web developer.
So get ready for a steep learning curve, but although the tools could have been more accessible, the Portal offers a lot of strengths and they do serve a valuable purpose.
Just a few thoughts
Trond Andersen, Invenia AS, +4798290811

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