Web 2.0 Solutions with Oracle WebCenter 11g

255 Pages·2010·23.82 MB·English

by  Arbizu Plinio

Web 2.0 Solutions with Oracle
WebCenter 11 g
Learn WebCenter 11g fundamentals and develop
real-world enterprise applications in an online work
environment
Plinio Arbizu
Ashok Aggarwal
with
Am it Gupta
Sukanta K. Hazra
enterprise^
PACKT
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Web 2.0 Solutions with Oracle WebCenter 11g
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1 : What is Oracle WebCenter? 7
WEB 2.0 concepts 8
Evolution of the platform application 8
Social impact of Web 9
Enterprise 2.0 concepts 10
Oracle WebCenter Suite concepts 10
Oracle JDeveloper 12
Summary 13
Chapter 2: WebCenter Installation and Configuration 15
Hardware and software requirements 16
High-level installation steps 16
Step-by-step installation 16
Installing Middleware Home 25
Installing the WebCenter Framework and Services 31
Summary 37
Chapter 3: Setting up the Development Environment 39
Oracle JDeveloper 11g installation 40
System requirements 40
Downloading the tool 40
JDeveloper installation 41
Oracle WebCenter extension for JDeveloper 42
Version control system installation 45
JDeveloper integration with Subversion 50
Testing WebCenter preconfigured server 51
Summary 55
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Chapter 4: Getting Started with WebCenter Development:
Hello World(s) 57
Prerequisites 58
Creating the Hello World web service 58
Step 0: Start Oracle J Developer 11g 58
Step 1: Creating a new application 59
Step 2: Configuring application settings 60
Step 3: Configuring project settings 61
Step 4: Creating a Java class 62
Step 5: Creating a Web Service from the Java class 64
Step 6: Creating a deployment profile 66
Step 7: Deploying the Web Service to the integrated Weblogic Server 68
Step 8: Testing the web service 70
Hello World Portlet 72
Step 1: Creating a new Portlet Producer Application 72
Step 2: Creating a new Portlet 73
Step 3: Creating a Web Service Data Control for the Hello World
web service 76
Step 4: Creating a basic view to use the data control 79
Step 5: Using the Web Service Data Control created 80
Step 6: Creating a deployment profile 83
Step 7: Deploying the portlet to the integrated WebLogic server 85
Step 7: Testing the portlet 86
Hello World WebCenter application 87
Step 1: Creating a WebCenter application 88
Step 2: Using the portlet producer 90
Step 3: Creating a JSF page to host the portlet 92
Step 4: Creating a page layout 94
Step 5: Creating a deployment profile for the WebCenter application 96
Step 6: Deploying the WebCenter application to the integrated
WebLogic server 97
Step 7: Testing the WebCenter application 98
Summary 99
Chapter 5: Design and Personalization 101
ADF Faces Rich Client components 101
Types of ADF Faces components 102
Creating a new application 102
Including a template for our application 104
Building pages with database interaction 114
ADF Business Components 114
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Creating a persistence layer 114
Creating a Schema for our application 114
Creating a database connection in JDeveloper 115
Creating the Business Components 117
Creating the page 121
Summary 126
Chapter 6: Portlets 127
Portlets, JSR-168 specification 127
WSRP specification 129
WebCenter portlets 129
Developing a portlet using ADF 130
Creating an ADF application 131
Developing business components 132
Creating a chart page 137
Creating a Portlet using the page 141
Portlet deployment 142
Consuming a portlet 145
Summary 149
Chapter 7: Discussions, Wiki, and Blog Services 151
Discussions configuration 153
Content structure 155
User and group structure 156
Integrating Discussions with WebCenter 157
Ensuring the Discussions Server is running 158
Creating a new WebCenter application 158
Creating a JSF page 159
Creating a connection to the Discussion Forum 160
Embedding a Discussions task flow in the JSF page 163
Deploying, running, and testing 165
Integrating Wiki and Blog with WebCenter 165
Prerequisites 166
Integrating Wiki and Blog using an IFrame 166
Creating a new WebCenter Application 166
Creating a JSF page 167
Creating an IFrame to include the Wki and Blog Server page 169
Integrating Wiki and Blog using the Web Clipping Portlet 170
Adding a new JSF page to the application 171
Registering the Web Clipping Portlet 171
Adding the Web Clipping Portlet to the JSF page 172
Running the portlet page 173
Summary 175
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Chapter 8: Search Service 177
Search in enterprise applications 178
Integrating the WebCenter Search Service 178
Ensuring that the WebCenter Wki and Blog Server are running 179
Creating a new WebCenter Application 179
Creating a JSF page 180
Creating a connection to the Discussions Service 181
Adding the Discussions Forum task flow to the JSF page 182
Adding the Search task flow to the JSF page 184
Integrating the WebCenter Tags service 185
Requirements for the Tags service 185
Integrating with the WebCenter Tags service 185
Creating a new custom WebCenter application 185
Adding the required libraries 186
Creating a connection to WebCenter schema 186
Creating a JSF page with a tag button 188
Creating a JSF page to host the Search Toolbar 191
Configuring ADF Security 191
Creating a deployment profile 194
Deploying the application to the Integrated WebLogic Server 195
Viewing the application 195
Integrating with the WebCenter Links Service 196
Modifying the test_page to include the Links Detail Button 196
Deploying the application to the Integrated WebLogic Server 198
Why to use the WebCenter RSS Service 199
Requirements for the WebCenter RSS Service 200
Integrating the WebCenter RSS Service 200
Creating a new custom WebCenter application 200
Creating a JSF page to host the RSS Viewer task flow 200
Adding the RSS Viewer task flow 202
Running the application 202
Viewing the application 203
Summary 204
Chapter 9: Personalization with Oracle Composer 205
Oracle Composer for developers 205
Types of Oracle Components 206
Building an environment with Oracle Composer 206
Oracle Composer for end users 212
Resource catalog 213
Content customizing using Oracle Composer 214
Summary 222
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Chapter 10: Oracle WebCenter Spaces Overview 223
Oracle WebCenter Spaces 224
Oracle WebCenter Personal Spaces 224
Oracle WebCenter Group Spaces 224
Oracle WebCenter Spaces installation 225
Oracle Spaces configuration 225
Development of staff working environments 227
Building a business role page 236
Hands on 237
Developing a Group Space 243
Summary 248
Index 249
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Preface
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 11 g 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.
What this book covers
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.
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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 Hello World 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.
What you need for this book
To develop and test the examples in this book, you need to have Oracle SOA Suite
llg Patch Set 2 (11.1.1.3) installed on your system. For Chapter 9, you also need
Oracle Service Bus llg (11.1.1.3) and Oracle Service Registry llg (11.1.1.2), and for
Chapter 10, you need Oracle BPA Suite llg (11.1.1.2).
• Oracle WebCenter Suite llg
• Oracle JDeveloper llg
Who this book is for
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
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• 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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