11 Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces Concepts

This chapter contains the following sections:

• About Oracle Workspaces

• Web Services

• Re-use of Oracle Collaboration Suite Data

• The Oracle Workspaces Web UI

• Related Documentation for Oracle Workspaces

About Oracle Workspaces

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces is an online component of Oracle Collaboration Suite that provides users with comprehensive tools for organizing and managing documents, people, meetings, tasks and discussions.

By assembling the relevant content for a project, workspace members have a powerful framework for organizing their collaborative efforts.

In addition, workspace administration is user-driven with minimal involvement by the global system administrator. Essentially, a workspace creator becomes the workspace administrator, enabling him to manage all workspace configuration issues such as membership and resource configuration. A user can create a workspace, add members with the appropriate roles, connect to all required resources and start collaborating without the need for intervention by a system administrator.

Web Services

Note: The feature described in this section was added to Oracle Collaboration Suite in the Oracle Collaboration Suite Cumulative Patchset 10.1.2.2. If you are using a previous version or patchset of Oracle Collaboration Suite, the feature described is not available.

Oracle Workspaces now has Web Services for building custom applications and integrating Oracle Workspaces functionality into existing applications.

The Oracle Workspaces Web Services is a layer on top of Oracle Workspaces SDK. It exposes operations supported by Oracle Workspaces SDK as Web services. These operations have been categorized inton 15 services.

For more information on web services for Oracle Workspaces, see Oracle Workspaces Java API Reference (Javadoc) and Oracle Workspaces Application Developer's Guide.

Re-use of Oracle Collaboration Suite Data

Oracle Workspaces enables users to manage content in their native services, thus leveraging the capabilities of the Oracle Collaboration Suite Applications. For example, documents stored in Oracle Content Services are manipulated where they reside. This enables Oracle Workspaces users to edit and manage content without duplicating it unnecessarily. This also allows Oracle Workspaces to benefit from Oracle Content Services features like auto-versioning, default attribution, and policies for documents.

The Oracle Workspaces Web UI

The Oracle Workspaces Web UI enables users to:

• Share, organize and collaborate on documents in a secure environment.

• Communicate easily and securely in a number of different ways: scheduling meetings, discussion forums and e-mail messages.

• Manage complex projects using hierarchical workspace containers.

• Collaborate in real time through Web conferencing and instant messaging.

• Track the timeline and progress of a project using the workspace calendar and task list.

• Manage content access via workspace roles.

• Extended access through familiar desktop tools.

Figure 11-1 Oracle Workspaces Web UI

Description of "Figure 11-1 Oracle Workspaces Web UI"

Related Documentation for Oracle Workspaces

See "Managing Oracle Workspaces" in Chapter 5 of Oracle Collaboration Suite Administrator's Guide for more about Oracle Workspaces administration, configuration, and troubleshooting.

See Chapter 13, "Deploying Oracle Workspaces" in Oracle Collaboration Suite Deployment Guide for information about Oracle Workspaces deployment.

See the Oracle Workspaces online help for information on using the Oracle Workspaces Web UI.