Oracle WebCenter 11g handbook : build rich, customizable enterprise 2.0 applications

Contents......Page 3
Part I: Introduction to Oracle WebCenter and the Application Development Framework......Page 10
1 Business Application Development: The Journey to WebCenter......Page 11
The Losing Battle......Page 12
The First Revolution: Enterprise Portals......Page 13
The Second Revolution: Composite Applications......Page 14
…And Then Came Web 2.0......Page 15
Rethinking Application Development......Page 16
Making It All Easier: Oracle Application Development Framework......Page 17
Bringing Us to…Enterprise 2.0......Page 18
Which Leads Us to Oracle WebCenter......Page 19
2 The WebCenter Development Environment......Page 21
Using JDeveloper......Page 22
Tools to Build WebCenter Applications......Page 27
Running and Managing Your Applications......Page 43
3 Oracle Application Development Framework......Page 50
ADF Concepts and Used Standards......Page 51
View: ADF Faces Rich Client......Page 54
Controller: ADFc......Page 63
Task Flows......Page 64
Business Services: ADF BC......Page 67
Model: ADFm (JSR 227) Data Bindings and Data Controls......Page 71
How It All Fits Together......Page 73
Part II: Building WebCenter Applications......Page 75
4 Building Your First WebCenter Page......Page 76
Creating an Application......Page 77
Creating Your First WebCenter Page......Page 81
Adding Your First Component......Page 84
The Inner Makings—the JSP Tag Structure......Page 90
5 Consuming and Building Portlets......Page 91
What Are Portlets?......Page 92
Consuming Portlets in JDeveloper......Page 96
Building Portlets......Page 113
Turning JSF Applications into Portlets: The JSF Portlet Bridge......Page 134
6 Inter-component Communication......Page 141
Which Technique Is for Me?......Page 142
Contextual Wiring with ADF Data Controls......Page 143
Wiring of JSF View Components and Portlets......Page 146
Inter-portlet Communication: Wiring Portlets......Page 155
Contextual Events......Page 160
Contextual Wiring of Portlets at Run Time......Page 165
7 Integrating Content Systems......Page 170
Connecting to Content......Page 172
Simple Table of Content......Page 174
Performing a Search with the Data Control......Page 182
Using the Document Service Components......Page 184
Content-Enabling Your First Application......Page 186
Leveraging the List View......Page 191
Content Server—WebCenter’s Built-in Enterprise Content Management......Page 192
The Recent Documents Task Flow......Page 198
Deployment......Page 200
8 Overview of WebCenter Web 2.0 Services......Page 201
What Are the WebCenter Web 2.0 Services?......Page 203
Business Cases......Page 206
9 Social Web 2.0 Services—New Concepts in the Application Landscape......Page 213
Configuring Your Application for the WebCenter Web 2.0 Services......Page 214
Services Inside and Out......Page 224
Information Discovery Services......Page 237
Communication Services......Page 246
Miscellaneous Services......Page 252
Extending the Services Concept in Your Application......Page 259
Tying It All Together......Page 260
A More Seamless Integration......Page 270
10 Setting Up Your Development Environment for Success......Page 271
No One Is an Island: Topology Matters......Page 272
Version Control......Page 276
Automation through Apache ANT......Page 278
Part III: Tailoring Your Applications......Page 281
11 Run-Time Customization......Page 282
Run-Time Customization Concepts......Page 284
The Oracle Composer Toolbox......Page 285
Advanced Composer Configuration......Page 298
Creating Pages at Run Time Using the Page Service......Page 302
12 Resource Catalog......Page 307
How the Resource Catalog Gets into Your Application......Page 309
Enabling an Existing Task Flow......Page 311
Getting Custom Task Flows into the Resource Palette......Page 314
Adding Your Own Task Flow to the Catalog......Page 317
Organizing the Run-Time Resource Catalog......Page 318
Multiple Catalog Definitions......Page 319
Advanced Resource Catalog Definition Changes......Page 320
Adding Portlets to the Catalog......Page 321
13 Skinning Your WebCenter Applications......Page 322
Skin vs. Style: What Is the Difference?......Page 323
About Skins......Page 324
Applying a Custom Skin to Your Application......Page 328
Advanced Skinning Techniques......Page 336
Skinning for HTML Developers......Page 343
14 Metadata Services Framework......Page 346
Architecture......Page 349
Working on Customizations in Oracle JDeveloper......Page 356
15 Extending Oracle Composer......Page 365
Add-on Panels......Page 366
Property Filters......Page 370
Custom Property Panels......Page 372
UI Event Handlers......Page 374
16 MDS Under the Hood of WebCenter......Page 377
Oracle Composer......Page 378
WebCenter Page Service......Page 384
Part IV: Administering Your Applications......Page 386
17 Installing and Managing WebCenter......Page 387
Installing Oracle WebCenter......Page 388
Managing Oracle WebCenter......Page 402
Monitoring Oracle WebCenter Applications......Page 406
Configuring Oracle WebCenter......Page 408
Accessing Diagnostics Information......Page 410
18 Security......Page 412
ADF Security Overview......Page 414
Securing an ADF Application......Page 416
WebCenter and ADF Security......Page 434
19 Deployment......Page 437
But Where Have All Those Tests I Did So Far Been Run?......Page 438
What If My Application Is Secured?......Page 448
Part V: Oracle Applications Integration......Page 450
20 Extending Oracle Applications with WebCenter......Page 451
Portlet-Based Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite......Page 452
Integrating Oracle PeopleSoft Applications via Portlets......Page 454
Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One Portal Solution......Page 457
A Different Approach—Oracle Siebel Applications......Page 459
Putting It All Together......Page 462
21 Looking to the Future with WebCenter and Fusion Applications......Page 463
WebCenter Web 2.0 Services in Fusion Applications......Page 465
Customization in Fusion Applications......Page 468
Communities in Fusion Applications......Page 470
The Future of WebCenter and Fusion Applications......Page 472
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