Portal Syndication with Web Services and Cocoon

So your boss wants you to create a portal for your web site that seamlessly integrates to an existing web site that already does data entry/display but does not have the look-and-feel of your portal?

Oh, no! Now you are going to have to duplicate that whole other site just so you can make it look like it matches the rest of your portal?

No, no, no. Do not do all that unnecessary work. This is the age of repurposable content - the XML era. You just need to use Cocoon as an adapter for that other site to fit into your site. So go read Portal Syndication with Web Services and Cocoon.