A portlet mode that typically displays information such as copyright, version, and author of the portlet.
In the People Connections service, a feature for viewing the application activities tracked for you and other users.
Application Development Framework. A range of technologies aimed at making Java EE application development faster and simpler for developers while at the same time taking advantage of proven software patterns to ensure that the developed application is scalable, performant, and the like.
In the Lists service, temporary, personal filtering of list data.
In WebCenter Spaces there are two types of administrator:
Fusion Middleware administrator: Also referred to as systems administrator. A user with complete administrative capabilities. This administrator can perform the complete range of security-sensitive administrative duties, and all installation, configuration, and audit tasks.
WebCenter Spaces administrator: A WebCenter Spaces user who is responsible for customizing WebCenter Spaces out of the box, managing and granting application roles, and maintaining the application when it is in use.
A combination of asynchronous JavaScript, dynamic HTML (DHTML), XML, and XmlHttpRequest communication channel that allows requests to be made to the server without fully re-rendering the page. Ajax allows rich client-like applications to use standard internet technologies.
A WebCenter service that offers a quick, convenient way to create and widely distribute messages instantly or at a specific time.
Application Programming Interface. A set of exposed data structures and functions that an application can use to invoke services on an application object, such as a portlet.
Application Development Framework
See ADF.
The process of creating and testing an application in a design time environment, deploying it to a production system, and then performing routine maintenance, such as monitoring performance and migrating customization data. The lifecycle of an application also includes performing further enhancements, restaging, and then redeploying the application to the production system.
Application Programming Interface
See API.
Roles that are specific to a particular application and are stored in an application-specific stripe of the policy store.
Specifies the WebCenter Spaces application background color, screen fonts, and, with some skins, the shapes and images used for application buttons and icons. The WebCenter Spaces administrator chooses the default application skin. WebCenter users may change the application skin on the General tab of the Preferences dialog.
An area of the WebCenter Spaces Sidebar that provides convenient access to your frequently used applications.
A user who is logged into a custom WebCenter application. Credentials of this user are verified against the identity store. By default, an authenticated user can access public information. To access secured information, such as pages and portlets, this user must be authorized through the policy and credential store.
Contrast with public users, who are not logged in, and can access public content only.
Identification of a user through an identity management system. You can require ADF authentication to enforce credentials for users to access the WebCenter application only (all ADF resources in the application remain accessible), or authentication and authorization to enforce credentials for users to access the WebCenter application and any ADF resources that have been secured in the application.
The policies that define the access rights of an individual or group to a secured resource. This resource may be a page or component within a page.
An individual who has access to a secured resource. For non-public resources, this individual is also an authenticated user.
A page that provides a personal record of an individual user's experience and opinions. There are two kinds of blog: personal blogs are written by an individual; group blogs are written by several users.
An Oracle Composer layout component. A container that enables the placement of content on a WebCenter Spaces page. In Oracle Composer, a Box is rendered as a rectangle comprised of dashed lines. For designers of custom WebCenter applications, this is the runtime equivalent of a Panel Customizable component.
Business Process Execution Language. An XML-based markup language for composing a set of discrete Web services into an end-to-end process flow.
A page, created by the WebCenter Spaces administrator, specifically provided for a given role in an organization. Business role pages provide a targeted environment for users of a particular role, by delivering information that is timely and relevant to individual roles without the noise of irrelevant information from other lines of business. Business role pages appear in the personal spaces of users classified under the specified role.
The act of storing frequently accessed information, typically Web pages, in a location where it can be accessed quickly to avoid frequent content generation.
See also expiry-based caching and validation-based caching.
A component provided in the Oracle Composer tag library that lets users change from the View mode of a page to Edit mode, in which they can edit the page using Oracle Composer.
A component provided in the Oracle Composer tag library that lets users change from the View mode of a page to Edit mode, in which they can edit the page using Oracle Composer.
A mechanism that enables a user to lock information, by checking it out, so that other users cannot modify that same piece of information. This prevents users from overwriting each other's changes. After making modifications, the user releases it by checking it back in, making it available again for other users to modify.
Visual elements surrounding a portlet or task flow that provide an access point for actions, such as those on the Actions menu and those embedded in the chrome itself, such as the minimize icon or resize handles.
Community of Interest group space
A group space created using the Community of Interest template. This type of group space provides an optimal structure for supporting communities of people, joining together to learn more about a subject area through the sharing of expertise, ideas, and content.
An individual piece of an application, for example, a task flow, portlet, page, or layout element such as a box or image.
A dialog, accessed from Oracle Composer, that provides access to all the content you can add to a WebCenter application page.
The developer who builds components (such as portlets, JavaServer Faces components, and Web services).
A dialog, accessed from Oracle Composer, that provides access to a component's parameters, display options, style settings, and associated events.
In the People Connections service, a feature for establishing a social network with other application users.
An application program or subsystem in which the program building block, known as a component, is run.
Services provided by Oracle WebCenter to enable developers to display content from a content repository, such as by creating data controls.
A feature of the Documents service that enables end users to select and search content items and then display those items using available display templates. Oracle WebCenter provides out-of-the-box templates for displaying single and multiple content items on your pages. You can also define custom templates for the content that you want to display in your custom WebCenter application, or for selection by end users at runtime.
A specialized storage and management mechanism, such as author-based versioning, full textual searching, content categorization and attribution, and is optimized for storing unstructured information, which differentiates it from a data repository.
content repository data control
A data control sourced though a content repository. In a custom WebCenter application, you can create content repository data controls for the following content repositories: Oracle Portal, Oracle Universal Content Management, and third-party repositories supporting the Java Content Repository (JCR) standard, or your local file system.
A JSF (*.jspx) page used for authenticating to an external application. At runtime, the Credential Provisioning page displays login data fields consisting of the data fields specified through external application registration. Login information is passed to the producer, which in turn passes the login values to the external application. The application provides the producer with the requested portlets.
After authentication, the user's login credentials are preserved in a credential store, which subsequently supplies that information at future sessions. Unless his information changes, the user supplies his credentials only one time.
Provides storage for login credentials for its associated domain. It also preserves the login credentials that a user provides for authentication to an external application. Credential store is usually combined with the policy store as a single logical store.
Although the credentials stored in the credential store are used during subsequent logins for authentication, the main function of this store is to provide authorization for those accounts.
Cascading Style Sheet. A simple mechanism for ensuring a consistent look and feel or adding style, such as fonts, colors, and spacing, to Web documents.
Icons or menu items that are displayed on the header or in the Actions item of a Show Detail Frame component that surrounds a task flow. These actions can control actions defined in the task flow itself, enabling task flows to represent internal actions as options on the chrome.
Specifies group space information in addition to that provided by the built-in attributes. Custom attributes can be used to determine the content of the components in a group space based on the parameter passed in. For example, a component can display data for a specific customer by passing in the customer ID. A custom attribute is simply a name value pair ; for example customerId=400, orderId=11, userName=Smith, and so on. Custom attributes are stored within the group space template.
A resource catalog that has been customized to control the components that are visible to specific users.
Contrast with default resource catalog.
A user role, created by an administrator or a group space moderator, to meet a specific personal space or group space requirement.
A custom WebCenter application is built on top of the ADF using the WebCenter Extension for Oracle JDeveloper. This application combines Web content, portlets, content integration, and collaborative services for the end user. Developers and administrators can create a custom WebCenter application based on their roles and skill levels in the organization. See WebCenter application.
A portlet mode that enables users to set the default values for portlet preferences for all users.
A WebCenter component that can be added to a page at runtime to enable end users to perform personalizations such as move, minimize, restore, or remove on content within those components. Customizable components are the Panel Customizable component and the Show Detail Frame component.
A mechanism that provides an abstraction of the business service's data model. The ADF data controls provide a consistent mechanism for clients and Web application controllers to access data objects, collections, methods, and operations.
See also content repository data control.
default language (application-level)
A display language specified by the WebCenter Spaces administrator that is used when users log in to WebCenter Spaces. The WebCenter Spaces administrator sets the application-level default language on the General tab of the Administration page. Individual users can set their own user-level default language on the General tab of the Preferences dialog.
default language (user preference)
A display language specified by a user that is used when that user logs in to WebCenter Spaces. The user preference language selection lasts until you specify a different default language. It can be overridden by a session language, but returns as the default when the session cookie is purged or expires an be overridden temporarily by the session language. The user sets the user-level default language on the General tab of the Preferences dialog.
The resource catalog that is provided by default for an application. It contains all of the Oracle ADF components and portlets available to the application.
Contrast with custom resource catalog.
See Integrated WLS.
A file used in application deployment that specifies the following types of information:
The source files, deployment descriptors, and other auxiliary files that are packages
The type and name of the archive file to be created
Dependency information
Platform-specific instructions
Other information
Oracle WebCenter Services provides a special deployment profile, the custom WebCenter application WAR deployment profile, that includes an option to export project metadata.
A view, in Oracle JDeveloper, that provides a WYSIWYG representation of a file.
See also Source view (JDeveloper).
Design view (WebCenter Spaces)
A view, in Oracle Composer, that provides a WYSIWYG representation of a page and its components.
See also Source view (WebCenter Spaces).
A group space that can be found by anyone logged into WebCenter Spaces, for example through a search. A group space is made discoverable when the group space moderator enables the Discoverable setting. Discoverable group spaces are listed in My Group Spaces; users wishing to join the group space can request membership through self-subscription (if enabled) or by contacting the group space moderator.
A WebCenter service that provides a means of creating and participating in text-based discussions with members of a particular group space.
Controls the language in which application user interface elements, such as buttons, field labels, and screen text, are rendered in the browser. The order of precedence for WebCenter application display language settings from weakest to strongest is: browser setting, application setting, user preference setting, session setting, group space setting.
Document List Viewer task flow
A Documents service task flow that exposes a list of documents and optionally folders defined by the listing of a specific folder or the results of a document search. Include on a page by selecting All Documents, Group Space Documents, or Personal Documents from the Oracle Composer catalog.
A Documents service task flow that exposes all the folders and files available from the default content repository connection and default folder. Include on a page by selecting Documents from the Oracle Composer catalog. Use to create, upload, and manage library content; to manage file versions; and to check files out and in.
A predefined page provided in every WebCenter Spaces group and personal space that includes the Document Manager task flow for managing content.
A WebCenter service that provides features for accessing, adding, and managing files; creating and managing file folders; configuring file and folder properties; and searching file and folder content.
Any tree or subtree within the Domain Name System (DNS) namespace. Domain most commonly refers to a group of computers whose host names share a common suffix, the domain name.
A page that displays as the result of a user action, such as a search or a click on a tag. As the name suggests, dynamically-generated pages are not stored, but rather are created as and when needed.
Enterprise Archive file. A Java EE archive file that is used in deploying applications on a Java EE application server. custom WebCenter applications are deployed using both a generic EAR file containing the application and the respective runtime customization and a targeted EAR file containing only the application for deployment to the application server. EAR files simplify application deployment by reducing the possibility of errors when moving an application from development to test, and test to production.
See also WAR.
A standardization of scripting programming languages, such as ECMAScript and JavaScript.
A scripting programming language, standardized by Ecma International according to the ECMA-262 specification. Frequently referred to as JavaScript or JScript, which are both extensions of the ECMA-262 specification.
(JSR 168 portlets only.) A portlet mode that enables personalization of a JSR 168 portlet. Edit Defaults mode is a display mode for the JSR 168 portlet's properties. In a custom WebCenter application, the Edit Defaults mode displays on the portlet's Actions menu as the Customize command.
See also Edit mode.
A portlet mode that enables personalization of the portlet for each user, for each instance.
See also Edit Defaults mode.
A view mode that enables users to modify the content, style, and layout of a page. Access edit mode by choosing Edit Page from the Page Actions menu.
Expression Language. Provides a short-hand way of working with Web application data by providing operators for retrieving and manipulating application data residing in a Java EE Web container. In a custom WebCenter application, EL expressions are encapsulated in the characters "#{" and "}" and typically come in the form #{object.data} where object represents any Java object or ADF component placed in the Java EE Web container's page, request, session, or application's scope.
See EAR.
An application that enables users to bring all sorts of content and services together in a single place.
A WebCenter service that provides group calendars, which you can use to schedule meetings, appointments, and so on. You can integrate the Events service with a Microsoft Exchange Server to provide personal calendars for individual users. This service is available only in WebCenter Spaces, and not in custom WebCenter applications.
A caching method that uses a retention period to specify how long the item is valid in the cache before a refresh is required. When there is a request for the item beyond the retention period, it is refreshed in the cache.
See also validation-based caching.
See EL.
Applications that do not delegate authentication to the single sign-on server. Instead, they display HTML login forms that ask for application user names and passwords. At the first login, users can choose to have the single sign-on server retrieve these credentials for them. Thereafter, they are logged in to these applications transparently.
A collection of components managed by Fusion Middleware Control. A farm can contain a Managed Server domain and other Oracle Fusion Middleware system components that are installed, configured, and running on the domain.
See FPA.
In the People Connections service, a feature for posting feedback for and receiving feedback from other application users.
Fusion Order Demo. An enterprise application built using Oracle Fusion Middleware, including Oracle WebCenter, used to provide examples of WebCenter functionality.
Federated Portal Adapter. A component of Oracle Portal that enables Oracle Portal instances to share their database portlets through the Web portlet interface. Using the FPA, Oracle Portal database portlets, including PL/SQL portlets, Portlet Builder portlets, and page portlets can be made available for use in WebCenter applications.
Full Screen Mode (WebCenter Spaces)
A view mode that opens the group space to occupy the entire screen, thus maximizing the display space. The Sidebar is not displayed in Full Screen Mode.
(PDK-Java portlets only.) A portlet mode that provides more content than can be shown in the portlet when it is sharing a page with other portlets.
A browser-based management application that is deployed when you install Oracle WebCenter. From Fusion Middleware Control, you can monitor and administer a farm (such as Oracle WebCenter).
See FOD.
A group space created using the Group Project template. This type of group space provides an optimal structure for supporting a core project team where each member might come from a different department but all members contribute toward meeting a common goal.
A work area within WebCenter Spaces that supports a group of people of any size that is organized around an area of interest or a common goal.
An image displayed alongside group space names on the Group Spaces page in My Group Spaces to help other users with identification and location.
An image displayed on the group space Home page to provide a visual identity for the group space. Group space logos also display alongside the group space name at the top of the page in Full Screen Mode.
A user who is participating in a group space. Members can be added or invited to a group space, or they can subscribe to a group space themselves if self-registration is enabled.
A user who initially created a group space. The group space owner is automatically also a moderator of the group space.
A starting point for group space creation. WebCenter Spaces includes three templates to get you started: Group Project, Community of Interest, and Blank, but you can turn any group space into a template to use it as the starting point for other similar group spaces.
A predefined page that displays when a group space member tries to open a group space that is temporarily offline. Moderators can customize this page.
High Availability. A collection of solutions to ensure that your applications meet the required availability to achieve your business goals, eliminating single points of failure with no or minimal outage in service.
A portlet mode that displays usage information about the functionality of the portlet.
See HA.
An Oracle Composer layout component. A simple HTML component that renders raw HTML and JavaScript mark-up inline on the page.
An Oracle Composer layout component. A link to an internal or external Web page. For designers of custom WebCenter applications, this is the runtime equivalent of a Go Link component.
Integrated Development Environment. A visual application development tool containing editors, debuggers, screen painters, object browsers, and the like. Oracle JDeveloper is an example of an IDE.
For a custom WebCenter application and associated content repositories, selecting this option allows propagation of current user's identity across the application and processes. The propagated identity is verified on the receiver's side, and then it is used to make decisions such as assigning role based access control.
An Oracle Composer layout component. An illustration that can include a hyperlink. For designers of custom WebCenter applications, this is the runtime equivalent of an Image Link component.
The parameters initialized upon the start-up of a standard JSR 168 portlet. Initialization parameters provide an alternative to JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface) variables. Use initialization parameters instead of JNDI to configure the behavior of all of the different components of the portlet—for example, servlets and other portlets—in a compatible way. In Oracle WebCenter, initialization parameters are entered into the portlet.xml file.
Instant Messaging and Presence service
A WebCenter service that enables users to observe the presence status of other authenticated users and provides instant access to interaction options, such as instant messages, emails, and phone calls.
Integrated Development Environment
See IDE.
Integrated WebLogic Server. A WLS instance used as a platform for pretesting WebCenter application deployments on a local computer. Integrated WLS also contains preconfigured portlet producers and several useful prebuilt portlets.
Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) is a Java package that enables applications to authenticate and enforce access controls upon users. JAAS is designed to complement Java 2 security and implements a Java version of the standard Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) framework. This enables an application to remain independent from the authentication service, and supports the use of custom authentication modules.
JAAS extends the access control architecture of the Java 2 Security Model to support subject-based authorization. It also supports declarative security settings, in deployment descriptors, instead of being limited to code-based security settings.
Java Authentication and Authorization Service
See JAAS.
See JCR 1.0.
Also known as Java EE 5. Java Enterprise Edition 5 Platform. A platform that enables application developers to develop, deploy, and manage multitier, server-centric, enterprise-level applications. The Java EE platform offers a multitiered distributed application model, integrated XML-based data interchange, a unified security model, and flexible transaction control. You can build your own Java EE portlets and expose them through Web producers.
Java Enterprise Edition 5 Platform
See Java EE.
Standardizes how components for portal servers are to be developed. This specification defines a common portlet API and infrastructure that provides facilities for personalization, presentation, and security. Portlets using this API and adhering to the specification are product-agnostic, and can be deployed to any portal product that conforms to the specification. See also JSR 168.
See JSR 168.
See JSF.
See JSP.
Java Content Repository 1.0. Also known as JSR 170. It proposes a standard access and interaction API for content repositories, much like JDBC does for databases.
See Oracle JDeveloper.
JavaServer Faces. A standard Java framework for building Web applications. It simplifies development by providing a component-centric approach to developing Java Web user interfaces. JSF offers rich and robust APIs that provide programming flexibility and ensures that applications are well designed with greater maintainability by integrating the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern into its architecture. As JSF is a Java standard developed through Java Community Process, development tools like Oracle JDeveloper are fully empowered to provide easy to use, visual, and productive development environments for JSF.
JavaServer Faces JavaServer Page. JSF JSPs differ from plain JSPs through their support of Oracle ADF Faces components for the user interface and JSF technology for page navigation. JSF JSP pages leverage the advantages of the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) by using the ADF Model binding capabilities for the components in the pages.
JavaServer Page. An extension to servlet functionality that provides a simple programmatic interface to Web pages. JSPs are HTML pages with special tags and embedded Java code that is executed on the Web or application server. JSPs provide dynamic functionality to HTML pages. They are actually compiled into servlets when first requested and run in the servlet container.
See also JSP tags.
Tags that can be embedded in JSPs to enclose Java code. These tags use the <jsp: syntax and enclose action elements in the JSP with begin and end tags similar to XML elements.
Java Specification Request (JSR) 168. Defines a set of APIs for building standards-based portlets using Java. Portlets built to this specification can be rendered to a portal locally or deployed to a WSRP container for rendering portlets remotely. For more information, see http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168.
See JCR 1.0
A file that provides information about available public and private keys that are used for authentication and data integrity. User certificates and the trust points needed to validate the certificates of peers are also stored securely in the keystore
An object for enhancing the usefulness and appearance of a given page. Layout components include layout boxes, a rich text editor, images, hyperlinks, and so on.
A component provided in the Oracle Composer tag library that enables users to select from a set of predefined layouts (for example, two column, three column, two row, and so on) and apply it to the page. Users can apply these layouts to a particular area of the page or to the entire page.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A standard, extensible directory access protocol. It is a common language that LDAP clients and servers use to communicate. The framework of design conventions supporting industry-standard directory products, such as the Oracle Internet Directory.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
See LDAP.
A WebCenter service that provides a means of creating a bidirectional association between two objects, thus setting up easy access between those objects.
A task flow of the Lists service that provides access to all the tools for creating and revising lists and list content and to all of a group space's current lists.
A WebCenter service for creating, publishing, and managing lists. Uses for lists include tracking issues, capturing project milestones, publishing project assignments, and so on. This service is available only in WebCenter Spaces, and not in custom WebCenter applications.
A task flow of the Lists service that provides a means of placing a particular list on a group space page.
A WebCenter service for exposing familiar email functionality in WebCenter applications.
In a production environment, a Managed Server hosts applications and the resources needed by those applications. A domain, which is a logically related group of Oracle WebLogic Server resources, can have any number of Managed Servers. An Administration Server manages these servers.
A Web application that enables end users to pull information from different sources to create a personalized application that exactly meets their individual requirements.
A set of MBean browsers in Fusion Middleware Control. MBeans browsers enable the administrator to browse the MBeans for an Oracle WebLogic Server or for a selected application as well as perform specific monitoring and configuration tasks.
Oracle Metadata Services. A core technology of the Application Development Framework. MDS provides a unified architecture for defining and using metadata in an extensible and customizable manner.
An application server and Oracle relational database that keep metadata in these areas: a file-based repository data, dictionary tables (accessed by built-in functions) and a metadata registry. One of the primary uses of MDS is to store customizations and persisted personalization for Oracle applications
In the People Connections service, a feature for posting messages to and receiving messages from other application users.
See MVC.
A WebCenter Spaces user who is responsible for managing a particular group space. A group space moderator can add and remove members, invite new members, enable self registration, provide and update group space metadata, and manage the services available to the group space.
An Oracle Composer layout component. A container that enables the placement of content on a WebCenter Spaces page and also enables the container (rather than just the content) to be moved around on the page. For designers of custom WebCenter applications, this is the runtime equivalent of Show Detail Frame component.
Model-View-Controller. A classic design pattern often used by applications that need the ability to maintain multiple views of the same data. The MVC pattern hinges on a clean separation of objects into one of three categories: models for maintaining data, views for displaying all or a portion of the data, and controllers for handling events that affect the model or views. Because of this separation, multiple views and controllers can interface with the same model. Even new types of views and controllers that never existed before, such as portlets, can interface with a model without forcing a change in the model design.
A predefined page that displays a list of all the group spaces and group space templates available to the currently logged in user. This includes group spaces of which the user is a member, group spaces marked as discoverable, and group spaces that are public and available to everyone.
Parameters in a WSRP container that map to the render parameters with the same name in JSR 168 portlet code. Navigation parameters are exposed by the portlet to the consumer. The consumer stores and manages parameter values and sends them on every invocation to the portlet. Navigation parameters are a WSRP version 2 feature.
A WebCenter service that provides useful features for writing personal notes and reminders. This service is available only in WebCenter Spaces, and not in custom WebCenter applications.
A component of Oracle WebCenter that enables you to inject portal-like capabilities, such as portlets, content integration, and customization, into your Oracle ADF Faces applications.
Part of Oracle's enterprise class suite of products for identity management and security, Oracle Access Manager provides a wide range of identity administration and security functions, including several single sign-on options for WebCenter Spaces and WebCenter custom applications. OAM is the recommended single sign-on solution for Oracle WebCenter 11g installations.
Oracle ADF Faces is a rich set of user interface components based on the new JavaServer Faces JSR (JSR 127). Oracle ADF Faces provide various user interface components with built-in functionality, such as data tables, hierarchical tables, and color and date pickers, that can be customized and reused in an application.
A seamlessly integrated environment for populating, revising, and configuring WebCenter application pages. It enables users to easily build or revise page layout and content. It also provides the means of adding different components, such as task flows, portlets, content, and other objects, onto a page and then linking those components for a more relevant or personalized view of the information.
A content repository for building secure business libraries with check in and check out, revision control, and automated publishing in web-ready formats. Current information is available to authorized users anytime, anywhere.
Oracle Content Server is a component of Oracle Universal Content Management.
Enables integration of discussion forums and announcements into WebCenter application.
A component that enables administrators to manage Oracle Fusion Middleware services through a single environment. The Fusion Middleware administrator uses Enterprise Manager to configure, manage, and monitor WebCenter applications.
Software that processes Web transactions that use the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Oracle uses HTTP software developed by the Apache Group.
Oracle's LDAP V3 compliant LDAP server. It is used as a repository for provisioning users and groups. By default, the Oracle Single Sign-On (OSSO) authenticates user credentials against Oracle Internet Directory information about dispersed users and network resources. Oracle Internet Directory combines LDAP version 3 with the high performance, scalability, robustness, and availability of the Oracle database.
Oracle JDeveloper is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications and Web services using the latest industry standards for Java, XML, and SQL. Developers can use Oracle JDeveloper to create Java portlets.
Based on and conforming to JSR 301, the Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge enables application developers to expose a JSF application or task flow as a JSR 168 portlet for consumption in another application.
See MDS.
A component used for the development, deployment, administration, and configuration of enterprise class portals. Oracle Portal incorporates a portal building framework with self-service publishing features to enable you to create and manage information accessed within your portal.
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) provides easy-to-use search for public and secure data. It is included with Oracle WebCenter. You can override the default search adapters in WebCenter Spaces and use Oracle SES, which provides unified ranking results. The results are listed together, instead of being clustered into separate sections for Documents, Discussions, and so on, with the most relevant items appearing first.
A component that enables users to log in to all features of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product suite, and to other Web applications, using a single user name and password.
A middleware component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle SOA Suite enables services to be created, managed, and orchestrated into SOA composite applications. Composites enable you to easily assemble multiple technology components into one SOA composite application. Oracle SOA Suite plugs into heterogeneous infrastructures and enables enterprises to incrementally adopt SOA.
See OTN.
Oracle Universal Content Management
A consolidated content management application that provides multisite Web content management, document management, digital asset management and records management.
A suite of services that enables you to build custom WebCenter applications. Oracle WebCenter reduces the front-end labor historically required to bring necessary business components to the user by capitalizing on the notion of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The suite includes a wide range of plug-and-play products, tools, and services that make it easy to build the applications your users need. Oracle WebCenter includes:
Mobile Services
Portlet Pack
A set of features provided by Oracle WebCenter that augments the Java Server Faces (JSF) environment by providing additional integration and run-time customization options It is the basis of Oracle WebCenter and supports the creation and execution of context-rich applications, which can come in the form of human interaction, files and documents, or a clear representation of where the user is within a complex work process. It includes such features as:
Portlet support
Search framework
customizable components
A suite of services included in Oracle WebCenter that enables you to enhance your Oracle ADF Faces applications with WebCenter application capabilities, such as portlets, content integration, and customization. Includes design time extensions to Oracle JDeveloper to help to build custom WebCenter applications. The services include:
communication services
Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console
A browser-based, graphical user interface to manage a WebLogic Server domain. Use to:
Configure, start, and stop WebLogic Server instances
Configure WebLogic Server clusters
Configure WebLogic Server services, such as database connectivity (JDBC) and messaging (JMS)
Configure security parameters, including creating and managing users, groups, and roles
Configure and deploy your applications
Monitor server and application performance
View server and domain log files
View application deployment descriptors
Edit selected run-time application deployment descriptor elements
Oracle WebCenter Wiki and Blog Server
Supports integration of wikis and blogs into WebCenter applications. It also supports features that enable application users to create their own wikis and blogs.
Oracle Technology Network. The online Oracle technical community that provides a variety of technical resources for building Oracle-based applications. You can access OTN at http://www.oracle.com/technology/.
A component provided in the Oracle Composer tag library that defines the editable area of a page at runtime. Within this area, users can edit properties for a component, add content to the page, arrange content, and so on.
A parameter associated with a page that can be used to store values that can then be passed to the components on the page. It also enables your page to take values through its URL. Page parameters are defined using the <parameter> tag at the top of your PageDef.xml. You can bind page parameters to your page variables.
A dialog, accessed from Oracle Composer, that provides access to a page's display options, security settings and parameters.
Determines the background image used in the page. WebCenter Spaces provides several default page schemes and an option for specifying a custom page scheme.
Determines the initial page structure, for example one column or two column. Some default page styles also include the task flows, components, and page properties useful for a particular purpose. For example, a page created using the Text page style includes a Text layout component.
A variable that binds your public portlet parameter to the page. Page variables are defined within the <variableIterator> of your PageDef.xml. One page variable can be bound to multiple public portlet parameters.
A component provided in the Oracle Composer tag library that provides a container region for a group of Oracle ADF components and portlets that are customizable at runtime. Any Show Detail Frame components and portlets added as child components to a Panel Customizable component can be moved or maximized with the Panel Customizable component.
A variable that controls the default behavior of task flow content and facilitates the wiring of a task flow to page parameters and page definition variables.
A WebCenter Spaces user who can manipulate the content of a group space. A participant can upload and share documents, initiate and take part in chats with other members, create discussion topics, modify due dates of tasks assigned to them, create new or view existing lists.
Java Portlet Developer Kit. The development framework used to build and integrate Web content and applications with Oracle WebCenter. It includes toolkits, samples, and technical articles that help make portal development simple. You can take existing Java servlets, JSPs, URL-accessible content and Web services and turn them into portlets. It is typically used by external developers and vendors to create portlets and services.
A WebCenter service that provides social networking tools for creating, interacting with, and tracking the activities of one's enterprise connections.
See also, Activity Stream, Connections, Feedback, Message Board, and Profile.
A page created by a user in his or her personal space. Personal pages are viewable by other users only if specifically granted access by the user who created the page.
A page that displays a user's personal information such as email address, phone number, office location, department, manager, direct reports, and so on.
See also, Profile.
A work area within WebCenter Spaces that provides individual users with a private space for storing personal content, keeping notes, viewing and responding to assignments, maintaining a list of online buddies, and performing many other tasks relevant to their unique working day. Users can also extend this environment by creating additional personal pages and custom content.
A common interface (that is, a Web page) that provides a personalized, single point of interaction with Web-based applications and information relevant to individual users or class of users.
See PDK-Java.
A reusable Web component that can draw content from many different sources. Portlets can display excerpts of other Web sites, generate summaries of key information, perform searches, and access assembled collections of information from a variety of data sources. Because different portlets can be placed on a common page, the user receives a single-source experience, even though the content may be derived from multiple sources. Portlet resources include the many prebuilt portlets available out of the box from many sources, programmatic portlets built through WebCenter's JSR 168 and PDK-Java Portlet wizards, and through other portlet building tools.
The ways by which a portlet can be called to display information. These methods include:
Portlet Producer Application template
An application template, provided by JDeveloper, for creating an application with the recommended projects and technology scopes required for developing portlets. The Portlet Producer Application template consists of a single project scoped for portlet creation (Portlets).
See also WebCenter Application template.
A page created by WebCenter Spaces to perform a specific function. Examples of predefined pages include, Welcome pages, Search pages and Documents pages.
A utility for custom WebCenter applications that helps you configure your target system with the new producer registrations you have added to your application in Oracle JDeveloper. You must run this utility before deploying your application. You can also use this utility after deployment to migrate metadata from stage to production, such as for exporting and importing your customizations. This tool also enables you to define the MDS repository location to allow run-time customizations to be migrated.
A portlet parameter that is known only to the portlet itself and has no connection to the page on which the portlet resides.
Contrast with public parameter.
A producer communication link between portlet consumers (such as a custom WebCenter application or a portal). When a consumer application renders a portlet, it calls the producer of that portlet, which in turn executes the portlet and returns the results in the form of portlet content. A producer can contain one or more portlets. A portlet can be contained by only one producer.
Oracle WebCenter supports two types of producers:
Oracle PDK-Java producers: Deployed to a Java EE application server, which is often remote and communicates through Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) over HTTP.
Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP): A Web services standard that enables the plug-and-play of visual, user-facing Web services with portals or other intermediary Web applications. Being a standard, WSRP enables interoperability between a standards-enabled container based on a particular language (such as JSR 168, .NET, Perl) and any WSRP portal. A portlet (regardless of language) deployed to a WSRP-enabled container can be rendered in any application that supports this standard.
In the People Connections service, a feature for viewing and managing information about yourself, such as your contact information, manager, and direct reports, and for viewing this information about other application users.
Portlets constructed in a non-declarative manner using APIs. Also referred to as hand- or manually coded portlets.
A group space that is available to all users, even those who are not logged in to WebCenter Spaces.
A page within WebCenter Spaces that is available to all users, even those who are not logged in to WebCenter Spaces.
A portlet parameter that is known to the page and bound to it by way of a page variable.
Contrast with private parameter.
A user who can access, but is not logged into, a WebCenter application. A public user can view any page that has been marked as public, but cannot personalize or edit any content, or view pages that have any form of access control.
Contrast with authenticated user.
A WebCenter service that provides a means of tracking recent activities in a WebCenter application.
A Documents service task flow that exposes the files most recently modified in some way. Include on a page by selecting Recent Documents from the Oracle Composer catalog.
A user interface element in a task flow chrome increasing or decreasing the height of the task flow.
Resource Action Handling framework
Enables services that expose custom resources to be viewed, searched, and tagged.
A catalog that provides a federated view of one or more otherwise unrelated repositories in a unified search and browse user interface. Resources are created and published in their source repository and are then exposed to the developer in JDeveloper's Resource Palette and to the end user in the Resource Catalog Viewer. Resource catalogs can contain layout components, Oracle ADF components, portlets, service task flows, and documents.
The starting point for accessing WebCenter REST APIs. Sending a GET request to the Resource Index URI returns a list of links to entry points for all available services.
Defines the type of resource that a WebCenter REST API link identifies. Use resource types to determine the response bodies for GET requests and allowable request bodies for POST and PUT. Also use resourceType attributes on entities to uniquely identify their type.
Oracle WebCenter provides a set of web-based REST (REpresentational State Transfer) APIs for retrieving and modifying server data dynamically from the client. REST APIs are available for Discussions service, Lists service, People Connections service, and WebCenter Spaces.
A server process that hides the physical location of internal servers by exposing the servers as a single public site. Requests to the public site are routed to the appropriate internal server.
A portlet, based on the WSRP standard, offering browser-based rich text editing at runtime on a deployed Oracle ADF JavaServer Faces JSP.
A WebCenter service that provides a means of publishing content from other services as news feeds. The RSS service supports both RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats.
A predefined page for running searches, creating and managing saved searches, and viewing and refining search results.
A WebCenter service that enables the discovery of information and people in a WebCenter application, returning only the results users are authorized to see
See Oracle SES.
A predefined page where users can register with WebCenter Spaces, thus creating themselves an identity store login account. Administrators can customize certain aspects of this page.
A predefined page where users can register to become members of a group space. Moderators can customize certain aspects of this page.
In Expression Language, the string that identifies a particular service. For example, the string oracle.webcenter.collab.announcement is the service ID for the Announcements service.
A PDK-Java producer's unique identifier. PDK-Java enables you to deploy multiple producers under a single adapter servlet. Different producers are identified by their unique service IDs. A service ID is required only when a service ID/producer name is not appended to the URL endpoint.
See SOA.
A Java program that usually runs on a Web server, extending the Web server's functionality. HTTP servlets take client HTTP requests, generate dynamic content (such as through querying a database), and provide an HTTP response.
A display language specified by the user that remains in effect for the life of the session cookie (usually from the time the user logs on until logging off). If the user clears browser cookies, the display language reverts to the user-level default language, if specified, then to the application-level default language set by the WebCenter Spaces administrator. Set the session language in the Change Language pop-up, accessible from the Welcome page.
A portlet mode that renders the body of the portlet and enables you to display a portlet on a page that can contain other portlets. Every portlet must have at least a Shared Screen mode.
See also View mode.
A component provided in the Oracle Composer tag library that renders a border or chrome around the child component. It provides a header with an Actions menu and thereby providers user interface (UI) controls to customize the display of the child component. However, to customize the display of the child component, the Show Detail Frame component must be included inside a Panel Customizable component.
A portlet mode that provides full-browser display of the portlet. For example, a portlet in Show Page mode could be limited to displaying only the ten most recently submitted expense reports, while the same portlet in Show Details Page mode could show all submissions.Contrast with Show Page mode.
Types of portlet modes encompassing Show Page mode and Show Details Page mode.
A portlet mode that provides a smaller portlet display to allow space for additional portlets and other objects in the browser window. For example, a portlet in Show Page mode could be limited to displaying only the ten most recently submitted expense reports, while the same portlet in Show Details Page mode could show all submissions.
Contrast with Show Details Page mode.
A panel in WebCenter Spaces that provides quick access to tools and information essential to personal productivity, including mail, personal contacts, and so on.
A style sheet based on the CSS 3.0 syntax specified in one place for an entire application. Instead of providing a style sheet for each component, or inserting a style sheet on each page, you can create one skin for the entire application.
Service Oriented Architecture. A design methodology aimed at maximizing the reuse of application services.
A view, in Oracle JDeveloper, that provides a way to directly edit the source code of a file.
Source view (WebCenter Spaces)
A view, in Oracle Composer, that provides a selectable structural representation of a page and its components.
See also Design view (WebCenter Spaces).
A development framework for Java servlet applications based upon the MVC design paradigm.
Used to override the style information from the skin CSS to set specific instances of component display.
A WebCenter service that enables users to apply their own terms to application objects, making it possible to search for those objects using personally meaningful terms.
A set of ADF Controller activities, control flow rules, and managed beans that interact to allow a user to complete a task. Task flows provide a modular approach for defining control flow in an application. Instead of representing an application as a single JSF page flow, developers can break it up into a collection of reusable task flows.
An area at the top of a task flow that displays the task flow name and various tools for interacting with the task flow.
See group space template.
An Oracle Composer layout component. A rich text editor for providing static page text. For designers of custom WebCenter applications, this is the runtime equivalent of a Rich Text Editor component.
A predefined page that displays when someone tries to open a page without access permissions. Moderators can customize the default content of this page.
See private parameter.
A caching method that uses a validation check to determine if the cached item is still valid.
Contrast with expiry-based caching.
A WebCenter Spaces user who can look at the information in a group space but cannot contribute any of their own.
(JSR 168 portlets only.) A portlet mode that enables you to display a JSR 168 portlet on a page that can contain other portlets. It is the only required mode for JSR 168 portlets.
See also Shared Screen mode.
Web application archive file. This file is used in deploying applications on a Java EE application server. WAR files encapsulate in a single module all of the components necessary to run an application. WAR files typically contain an application's servlet, JSP, and JSF JSP components.
See also EAR.
Technologies, such as wiki, RSS, and blogs, that enable the construction of highly interactive Web applications.
See also WebCenter service.
See WAR.
A feature that enables page designers to collect Web content into a single centralized portal. It can be used to consolidate content from hundreds of different Web sites scattered throughout a large organization.
A browser-based declarative tool that enables you to integrate any Web application with your custom WebCenter application. It is designed to give you quick integration by leveraging the Web application's existing user interface. You can drag and drop Web Clipping portlets on to a *.jspx page.
An Oracle Composer layout component. A means of embedding another Web site, wiki, or blog within the context of a WebCenter Spaces page. For designers of custom WebCenter applications, this is the equivalent of an Inline Frame component.
Web Services for Remote Portlets
See WSRP.
See Oracle WebCenter.
WebCenter applications encompass both custom WebCenter applications and WebCenter Spaces.
WebCenter application administrator
The administrator responsible for maintaining the WebCenter application. For example, in WebCenter Spaces, the administrator performs tasks such as implementing the branding for the WebCenter application, making new content available, modifying pages, and granting and revoking privileges.Contrast with systems administrator who has administrative rights for entire Fusion Middleware functions. The Fusion Middleware administrator is also responsible for deploying, setting up, and configuring the WebCenter application, and performing on-going administrative tasks for the WebCenter application and other WebCenter components through Fusion Middleware Control.
WebCenter application developer
The developer who plans, builds, and maintains a custom WebCenter application using the Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle JDeveloper, and Oracle WebCenter.
WebCenter application end user
The WebCenter application end user is the runtime user of the WebCenter application, who accesses pages, portlets, and content, and personalizes portlets (assuming the appropriate privileges).
WebCenter Application template
An application template, provided by JDeveloper, for creating an application with the recommended projects and technology scopes required for developing a WebCenter application. The WebCenter Application template consists of a project for the data model (Model) and a project for consuming portlets, components, and data controllers (ViewController).
See also Portlet Producer Application template.
WebCenter Extension for Oracle JDeveloper
An extension available through the Oracle JDeveloper Update Wizard that installs the necessary libraries, templates, wizards, and dialogs needed to build and deploy custom WebCenter applications in Oracle JDeveloper.
Expose social networking and personal productivity features through various services, such as, Announcements service, Blog service, Discussions service, Documents service, Events service, IMP service, Links service, Lists service, Notes service, and so on.
A Web-based application that offers the very latest technology for social networking, communication, collaboration, and personal productivity. WebCenter Spaces uses services and applications to bring everything together that users require to exchange ideas with others, keep track of personal and work-related tasks, interact with critical applications, and zero in on projects and interests; all within a single integrated environment.
WebCenter Spaces is a WebCenter application.
WebCenter Spaces application administrator
See administrator.
An RSS reader provided with WebCenter Spaces that incorporates public news feeds from external sources onto application pages. This RSS reader is available only in WebCenter Spaces, and not in custom WebCenter applications.
WebCenter systems administrator
See administrator.
A service that provides Web 2.0 functionality in support of personal and team objectives. WebCenter provides the following services:
See WLS.
There are two types of Welcome page:
Public Welcome page: A predefined page that users encounter before logging in to WebCenter Spaces.
Personal Welcome page: A predefined page that introduces users to their personal space.
A page that provides in-place editing using HTML or a simple mark-up language. Any user with sufficient privileges can add, revise, and remove wiki content.
WebLogic Server. A scalable, enterprise-ready Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server. The WebLogic Server infrastructure supports the deployment of many types of distributed applications and is an ideal foundation for building applications based on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
See also Integrated WLS
WebLogic Scripting Tool. A command line tool for managing Oracle Fusion Middleware components, such as Oracle WebCenter.
A WebCenter service that provides access to notifications, alerts, and BPEL tasks assigned to the current user.
Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) is a Web services standard that allows the plug-and-play of visual, user-facing Web services with portals or other intermediary Web applications. Being a standard, WSRP enables interoperability between a standards-enabled container based on a particular language (such as JSR 168, .NET, Perl) and any WSRP portal. A portlet (regardless of language) deployed to a WSRP-enabled container can be rendered on any portal that supports this standard.