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Beginning Oracle WebCenter Portal 12c

Build next-generation enterprise portals with Oracle WebCenter Portal

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Develop enterprise portals with Oracle WebCenter Portal 12c software and enrich those applications with social computing services, including discussions, documents, blogs, wikis, tags, and links. This book covers all functionalities and aspects from a developer, architect, and administrator point of view.

Enterprise portal technology is used for creating intranet and extranet portals which enhance collaboration within a company. The book is intended to complete and fill in the gaps of the official documentation from an administrator and developer perspective.

Beginning Oracle WebCenter Portal 12c provides an overview of the architecture behind Oracle WebCenter Suite and the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform. Sample code written in Java is included along with best practices developed from the authors’ experience of using Oracle WebCenter Portal for building enterprise portals.

What you will learn:

Enterprise Portal and Oracle WebCenter Portal concepts

Basic administrator knowledge

Basic developer knowledge

Overview of the tools and services offered by Oracle WebCenter Portal

How to develop Portal Assets using JDeveloper IDE

How to develop new components(Portlets JSR-286 and ADF Task Flows) using JDeveloper IDE

REST API integration with Portal

Enterprise content management with Portal

Who this book is for:

Developers, architects, project managers and portal administrators in the Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) area. IT professionals working in FMW or WebLogic stack can also make use of this book.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Introduction to Enterprise Portals
Abstract
Before starting to describe the new functionalities offered by Oracle WebCenter Portal 12c, it is very important to understand the concept of Enterprise Portal and the differences between them and a regular website.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 2. Introduction to Oracle WebCenter Portal 12c
Abstract
Portal is a software/framework that provides a platform to integrate and bring together heterogeneous process/data. It provides a medium to make connections to multiple sources. WebCenter Portal networks span an entire enterprise in a secure way with a process-oriented security framework. Portal can be used to bring information from multiple sources and unite them in a single platform. It helps in search, navigation, personalization, notifications, and information integration. It also empowers applications with collaborations, administration, and task management features.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 3. Oracle WebCenter Portal 12c Administration
Abstract
Portal Administrator manages all portal administration-related activities in the Portal server console.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 4. Portal Asset Development
Abstract
WebCenter Portal offers different development strategies. One of them is via portal assets development. Assets in WebCenter Portal are different reusable building blocks that make Web Portal together. Web Portal comprises different components like css, page template, Navigation component, Page styles, task flow, content presenter, etc. All these are called Portal Assets. WebCenter Portal (WCP) gives various out-of-box assets that can be used to build a rich user interface portal. These assets are customizable and editable within each portal for specific requirements.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 5. Working with Pages and Navigation
Abstract
Chapter 3 introduced some basic concepts about administering Portals by using WebCenter Portal Administration Console (Figure 5-1).
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 6. Extend Portal with Shared Libraries
Abstract
Out-of-the-box, Oracle WebCenter Portal offers tools for creating Portals and Pages consuming data from REST, Web Services, or Database. However, sometimes you are required to develop complex components, which are difficult to achieve using only the Runtime tools.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 7. WebCenter Portal Task Flow Customization
Abstract
WebCenter Portal provides multiple Out-of-box task flows for multiple functionalities. For example, content manager (Document explorer task flow in 11g) task flow, search task flow, discussion task flow, etc. WebCenter Portal provides lot of features by wrapping it in ADF Task Flows. Quite often Out-of-box task flows don’t fit the project’s business requirements. Either the user interface needs changes or some functionalities are not required, or there is a need to add additional information. In such circumstances, task flow customization can be done to meet the requirements.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 8. Portlets Integration Using JSR 286
Abstract
WebCenter Portal offers different development strategies for transactional features, portlets and Task Flows being the most common. The challenge of developing a web portal is to bring all distinct applications/data into one place. Different applications or technologies fulfill different features. Choice of technology can also come into play depending on expertise and ease of development.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 9. Creating Pagelet Producer
Abstract
Portal technology is used to aggregate information from multiple sources. These aggregations can be done using service-orientated architecture, portlet-based, or direct from information source. In some situations, the above-mentioned solutions don’t meet the requirements. For example, no direct connection is available to a source application or third-party application separated by different domains, organizations, etc. To serve these types of challenges, WebCenter Portal gives Pagelet technology.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 10. Portal Security Administration
Abstract
The Security is one of the main key concepts to learn about Enterprise Portals as they are the Single Secure Entry point for the information.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 11. Content Integration
Abstract
Out-of-the-box, Oracle WebCenter Portal provides multiple components for displaying and manipulating content coming from different type of sources and repositories.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 12. Portal Tools and Services
Abstract
Oracle WebCenter Portal provides multiple components and services for enhancing the collaboration and social networking between users of an organization.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Chapter 13. Extending WebCenter Portal
Abstract
In all of the other chapters, there have been explanations about contents of WebCenter Portal and development with this framework. This chapter explains extensions with WebCenter Portal. We will talk about WebCenter Portal REST APIs, WebCenter Portal Java APIs, integration with other technologies), and some real-life use cases.
Vinay Kumar, Daniel Merchán García
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Beginning Oracle WebCenter Portal 12c
verfasst von
Vinay Kumar
Daniel Merchán García
Copyright-Jahr
2017
Verlag
Apress
Electronic ISBN
978-1-4842-2532-5
Print ISBN
978-1-4842-2531-8
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2532-5