The Portal Content Directory (PCD) is the main repository for portal content, both delivered with the portal and created by administrators. The PCD contains a hierarchy of folders, each of which can contain semantic objects such as iViews, pages, worksets and roles. For portal content, the top-level folder is named portal_content. The PCD is stored in the portal database and is accessed via the PCD Generic Layer (GL), a JNDI provider.

In this section, the following topics are described: