Tutorial: Using Page Flows Inside Portlets

This tutorial guides you through the process of learning how to use Page Flows inside portlets. The tutorial takes about 50 minutes to complete.

Tutorial Goals

At the end of this tutorial you will have some familiarity with how to use Page Flows inside portlets.

Note: Before starting this tutorial, you may wish to familiarize yourself with Page Flows by looking at the Page Flow tutorial first.

Tutorial Overview

The WebLogic Workshop Portal Extensions include a graphical Portal Designer that lets you surface application functionality easily and quickly in a sophisticated portal interface. Sample portlets included with the WebLogic Workshop Portal Extensions provide instant, reusable functionality for a portal, as this tutorial illustrates.

The portal development lifecycle involves development with the WebLogic Workshop Portal Extensions and administration with the WebLogic Administration Portal. This tutorial covers the development phase. After you have completed this tutorial, you will see instructions for starting a tutorial that covers the administration phase.

Steps in This Tutorial

Step 1: Start WebLogic Workshop, Open an Application, and Start WebLogic Server — 5 minutes

In this step you start WebLogic Workshop, open the sample portal application, and start WebLogic Server.

Step 2: Add a Portal to the Application — 5 minutes

In this step you Create a Portal Application, add a Portal Web Project, and add a Portal, and start WebLogic Server.

Step 3: Create a Simple Navigation Page Flow portlet - 10 minutes

In this step you create two simple .jpf files and their corresponding portlets.

Step 4: Create portlets that communicate. - 10 minutes

In this step you create a Page Flow portlet that listens to input from another Page Flow portlet.

Step 5: Create an EJB Control Page Flow portlet. - 10 minutes

In this step you create a Page Flow portlet, add a Personalization Control, and edit properties on the Control.