This first chapter will discuss how to install a GateIn instance on your local environment. We will see that there are two main ways to achieve this task.

We will then look at how to configure a different content store for data so that you can use your preferred DBMS and your file system. Then we will see how to set up the GateIn mail sender to allow you to use the SMTP server available in your network.

At the end of the chapter, you will understand what the architecture of GateIn is and how to configure and run a portal instance on your machine.

GateIn is a portal framework dedicated to implementing highly customizable portal solutions with a powerful set of components based on well-known and adopted open source technologies and standards based on the Java web technologies.