Oracle WebCenter Suite is the industry's most comprehensive enterprise portal platform designed for business users, unified with business applications, Enterprise 2.0 services, and social communities. It incorporates Web 2.0 content, collaboration, and communication services. However, without proper guidance on developing performance-critical enterprise applications, it is easy to make the wrong design and technology decisions.
Packed with screenshots, this book offers you in-depth knowledge of developing custom WebCenter applications for your various enterprise requirements. Integrate various web services to make development simpler and faster. Build fast, reliable, and robust Web 2.0 applications with this hands-on practical tutorial.
Oracle WebCenter Suite is a stack of products that helps implement Web 2.0 solutions in organizations. This book enables developers to learn the important concepts. It shows several scenarios where Oracle WebCenter 11g technology can be used to improve the productivity of your organization. Each chapter provides a practical application of the technology. It will guide you through many web-building features such as pages and portlets.
Finally, the book describes complete solutions, such as Oracle WebCenter Spaces, and ready-to-use collaborative environments.
Chapter 1, What is Oracle WebCenter?, summarizes the features of Oracle WebCenter and shows the business needs that this technology solves.
Chapter 2, WebCenter Installation and Configuration, provides the necessary instructions to install WEB Center Suite successfully in an environment standard of development.
Chapter 3, Setting up the Development Environment, helps us to prepare the development environments and the application server, in order to support our WebCenter applications.
Chapter 4, Getting Started with WebCenter Development: Hello World(s), helps us create a HelloWorld web service. We also accomplish a verification of our development environment and gain confidence in being able to build the foundational components and skills needed for WebCenter development.
Chapter 5, Design and Personalization, explains how to develop templates and add data access features to our WebCenter applications.
Chapter 6, Portlets, explains how to implement features using portlets in our applications, as component reuse is one of principal goals of our applications.
Chapter 7, Discussions, Wiki, and Blog Services, demonstrates simple ways to incorporate the Wiki and Blog Services into your custom WebCenter applications.
Chapter 8, Search Service, explores the WebCenter Search Service, Tags, Links, and RSS. By creating a sample application, it explains how to integrate WebCenter Search Service into your custom WebCenter application.
Chapter 9, Personalization with Oracle Composer, works with Oracle WebCenter in two parts. In the first part, as developers, we prepare the environment for end users. Then, we assume the role of end user to personalize the page defined in the previous step.
Chapter 10, Oracle WebCenter Spaces Overview, shows how to configure and customize Oracle WebCenter Spaces.
To develop and test the examples in this book, you need to have Oracle SOA Suite 11g Patch Set 2 (11.1.1.3) installed on your system. For Chapter 9, you also need Oracle Service Bus 11g (11.1.1.3) and Oracle Service Registry 11g (11.1.1.2), and for Chapter 10, you need Oracle BPA Suite 11g (11.1.1.2).
Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g
Oracle JDeveloper 11g
This book is for web developers who need to improve their websites or business applications using Web 2.0 features.
This book is recommended for you, if you are a:
Portal Developer who works with a traditional portal and wants to move on to new technologies
Java Developer and want to add productivity features to your business applications
Knowledge Manager and want to create collaborative environments and increase the productivity of your employees and organizational groups
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