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.