Contents

List of Examples

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

Part I Introduction

1 Understanding Oracle WebCenter

• 1.1 Introduction to Oracle WebCenter
  • 1.1.1 Introduction to Oracle Application Development Framework
  • 1.1.2 Introduction to Oracle JDeveloper and the WebCenter Extension
  • 1.1.3 Introduction to Oracle WebCenter Framework and Custom WebCenter Applications
    • 1.1.3.1 Oracle Composer
    • 1.1.3.2 Portlets
    • 1.1.3.3 Content Integration
    • 1.1.3.4 Search Framework
    • 1.1.3.5 Resource Catalog
    • 1.1.3.6 Customizable Components
    • 1.1.3.7 Application Security
    • 1.1.3.8 Application Life Cycle
  • 1.1.4 Introduction to Oracle WebCenter Services
• 1.2 Design Questions to Consider Before You Start
  • 1.2.1 User Considerations
  • 1.2.2 Site Administrator Considerations
  • 1.2.3 Developer Considerations
• 1.3 Accessibility Features
  • 1.3.1 Generating Accessible HTML
  • 1.3.2 Accessibility Features at Runtime
  • 1.3.3 Accessibility Considerations for Portlets
  • 1.3.4 Accessibility Features in WebCenter Spaces

2 Introduction to the WebCenter Sample Application

• 2.1 About the Fusion Order Demo for WebCenter
• 2.2 Browsing the Oracle WebCenter Framework Components in the Fusion Order Demo for WebCenter at Runtime
  • 2.2.1 Exploring the Home.jspx Page
  • 2.2.2 Exploring MyPage.jspx
  • 2.2.3 Editing MyPage.jspx
• 2.3 Oracle WebCenter Framework Components in the Fusion Order Demo for WebCenter

3 Preparing Your Development Environment

• 3.1 Installing the WebCenter Extension Bundle
• 3.2 Creating a WebCenter Application
  • 3.2.1 How to Create a WebCenter Application Using a Template
  • 3.2.2 What Happens When You Use the WebCenter Application Template
    • 3.2.2.1 Template Projects, Technology Scopes, and Libraries
    • 3.2.2.2 WebCenter Application Template Default Files and Folders
• 3.3 Creating WebCenter Application-Enabled Pages
  • 3.3.1 How to Create a Page in a WebCenter Application Based on a Template
  • 3.3.2 How to Create a Page in a Manually-Created WebCenter Application
• 3.4 Creating a Portlet Application
  • 3.4.1 How to Create a Portlet Application Using a Template
  • 3.4.2 What Happens When You Use a Portlet Producer Application Template
• 3.5 Implementing Security in Your Application
  • 3.5.1 How to Configure ADF Security
  • 3.5.2 How to Create an Application Role
  • 3.5.3 How to Add Login and Logout Links
  • 3.5.4 What Happens at Runtime
• 3.6 Extending Non-WebCenter Applications to Include WebCenter Capabilities
• 3.7 Installing the Oracle WebCenter Adapter for Microsoft SharePoint
• 3.8 Creating a WebCenter Application Project By Importing a WAR File
• 3.9 Using Integrated WLS
  • 3.9.1 How to Start and Stop Integrated WLS
  • 3.9.2 What You May Need to Know About Integrated WLS
  • 3.9.3 The WebCenter Preconfigured Server Readme File
  • 3.9.4 What You May Need to Know About Preconfigured Portlet Producers
    • 3.9.4.1 OmniPortlet and Web Clipping
    • 3.9.4.2 The WSRP Sample Portlet Producers and Portlets
    • 3.9.4.3 The PDK-Java Sample Portlet Producer and Portlets
• 3.10 Accessing Connection Wizards
• 3.11 Integrating Mobile Support

4 Preparing Your Application for Oracle WebCenter Services

• 4.1 Preparing Your WebCenter Application to Consume Services
  • 4.1.1 How to Prepare Your Application to Consume Services
    • 4.1.1.1 Implementing Security for Services
    • 4.1.1.2 Setting Up SSL-Protected Connections for Services
  • 4.1.2 Setting Up an External Application Connection
  • 4.1.3 Automated Task Flow Grants
• 4.2 Extending Your Application with Custom Components
  • 4.2.1 Introducing the Resource Action Handling Framework
  • 4.2.2 Registering a Resource Viewer
• 4.3 Configuring General Settings for Your Services
  • 4.3.1 Building a Preferences User Interface

Part II Using, Extending, and Customizing Your Application with Oracle Composer

5 Introduction to Oracle Composer

• 5.1 Personalization and Customization
• 5.2 View and Edit Modes of a Page
• 5.3 Personalizing Capabilities in Page View Mode
  • 5.3.1 Rearrange Components
  • 5.3.2 Change the Layout
  • 5.3.3 Expand and Collapse Components
  • 5.3.4 Customize Portlets
• 5.4 Editing Capabilities in Design View in Page Edit Mode
  • 5.4.1 Add Content
  • 5.4.2 Add Box Components Adjacent to Existing Ones
    • 5.4.2.1 Add Box Above
    • 5.4.2.2 Add Box Below
    • 5.4.2.3 Add Box Left
    • 5.4.2.4 Add Box Right
  • 5.4.3 Rearrange Page Content
  • 5.4.4 Edit Component Properties and Parameters
  • 5.4.5 Reset and Override Component Properties in the Current Layer
  • 5.4.6 Edit Resource Strings
  • 5.4.7 Show or Hide Components
  • 5.4.8 Delete Components
  • 5.4.9 Change the Layout
  • 5.4.10 Edit Page Properties
  • 5.4.11 Wire Components to Page Parameters
  • 5.4.12 Reset Page
  • 5.4.13 Reset Customizations on Detecting Errors
  • 5.4.14 Create Labels On Saving Customizations
  • 5.4.15 Manage Customizations
• 5.5 Editing Capabilities in Source View in Page Edit Mode
  • 5.5.1 Rearrange Page Content Using Cut and Paste Options
  • 5.5.2 Edit Content Inside a Task Flow
    • 5.5.2.1 Reset Task Flow
  • 5.5.3 Edit Content Inside a Declarative Component
  • 5.5.4 Show or Hide Components
• 5.6 Oracle Composer Components
  • 5.6.1 Page Customizable
  • 5.6.2 Change Mode Link and Change Mode Button
  • 5.6.3 Panel Customizable
  • 5.6.4 Show Detail Frame
  • 5.6.5 Layout Customizable
• 5.7 Security and Oracle Composer
  • 5.7.1 Page Security
  • 5.7.2 Task Flow Security
  • 5.7.3 MDS Customization Restrictions
  • 5.7.4 Component Action-Level Security

6 Enabling Runtime Creation and Management of Pages

• 6.1 Introduction to Page Creation and Management
• 6.2 Creating Pages and Task Flows
  • 6.2.1 How to Create Pages
    • 6.2.1.1 How to Add the Page - Create New Task Flow
    • 6.2.1.2 Setting Security for the Page Service
    • 6.2.1.3 How to Create Pages at Runtime
    • 6.2.1.4 Structure of Pages Created at Runtime
    • 6.2.1.5 How to Access Pages Created at Runtime
• 6.3 Defining Values for the Page - Create New Task Flow Parameters
  • 6.3.1 How to Access Page - Create New Task Flow Parameters
  • 6.3.2 Setting Scope in a Page - Create New Task Flow
  • 6.3.3 Setting an Outcome Parameter
  • 6.3.4 Specifying Styles
    • 6.3.4.1 Out-of-the-Box Styles
    • 6.3.4.2 Custom Styles
  • 6.3.5 Specify an ADF Template
  • 6.3.6 Showing a Command Link
  • 6.3.7 Displaying an Image
  • 6.3.8 Customizing the Label
• 6.4 How to Create Task Flow View Pages
• 6.5 Managing Pages
  • 6.5.1 Using the Page Service Data Control to Manage Pages
    • 6.5.1.1 How to Add the Page Service Data Control
    • 6.5.1.2 How to View, Edit, and Delete Pages at Runtime
  • 6.5.2 Using the Page Service APIs to Manage Pages and Task Flows
• 6.6 Introduction to Custom Styles and Templates
  • 6.6.1 How to Create Templates for Pages Created at Runtime
    • 6.6.1.1 How to Create a Page or Page Fragment Style
    • 6.6.1.2 How to Edit Create Page Dialog Styles
  • 6.6.2 Using ADF Templates
    • 6.6.2.1 How to Specify the ADF Template Name Using the Task Flow Parameter
    • 6.6.2.2 How to Specify the ADF Template Name Using API Parameters
  • 6.6.3 Creating Styles for the Create Page Dialog
    • 6.6.3.1 How to Create a Style for the Create Page Dialog
    • 6.6.3.2 How to Reference a New Style from the Page - Create New Task Flow
• 6.7 Customizing Page Service Views
  • 6.7.1 Rendering Pages with ADF Faces Components
    • 6.7.1.1 Rendering Pages as Tabs Using ADF Faces Components
    • 6.7.1.2 Rendering Pages as Links Using ADF Faces Components
    • 6.7.1.3 Rendering Pages as Image Links Using ADF Faces Components
  • 6.7.2 Managing User Security on Pages and Task Flows
• 6.8 Introduction to the Page Service APIs
  • 6.8.1 Using the Page Service APIs
    • 6.8.1.1 Location of the Page Service APIs
    • 6.8.1.2 How to Set up Your Application to Use the Page Service APIs
    • 6.8.1.3 Example: How to Create a Page
• 6.9 Page Service Samples

7 Enabling Runtime Editing of Pages Using Oracle Composer

• 7.1 Designing Editable Pages Using Oracle Composer Components
  • 7.1.1 How to Create a Customizable Page
  • 7.1.2 How to Enable Runtime Customization Using a Page Customizable
  • 7.1.3 How to Enable Switching Between Page Modes Using a Change Mode Link or Change Mode Button
  • 7.1.4 How to Define Editable Areas of a Page Using Panel Customizable Components
  • 7.1.5 How to Enable Layout Customization for a Page Using a Layout Customizable
  • 7.1.6 How to Enable Component Customization Using Show Detail Frame Components
  • 7.1.7 How to Create a Page Template for Creating Customizable Pages
  • 7.1.8 How to Enable Customization in a Populated Page
  • 7.1.9 What Happens When You Add Oracle Composer Components
  • 7.1.10 What Happens at Runtime
  • 7.1.11 What You May Need to Know When Designing Editable Pages
• 7.2 Designing Editable Pages Using Oracle Composer Components: Example
• 7.3 Populating Pages with Content
  • 7.3.1 What You May Need to Know When Adding Content to the Page
    • 7.3.1.1 Considerations for Adding Task Flows
• 7.4 Troubleshooting Oracle Composer Problems

8 Extending Runtime Editing Capabilities Using Oracle Composer

• 8.1 Overview of Extensibility Options
  • 8.1.1 Oracle Composer Add-Ons
  • 8.1.2 Oracle Composer Custom Property Panels
  • 8.1.3 Oracle Composer Events Handlers
  • 8.1.4 Drop Handlers
  • 8.1.5 Component Property Filters
  • 8.1.6 Customization Manager
  • 8.1.7 Oracle Composer Toolbar Customization
  • 8.1.8 Configuration Files
• 8.2 Creating Oracle Composer Add-Ons
  • 8.2.1 How to Create and Register Add-Ons
    • 8.2.1.1 Creating an Add-On Task Flow
    • 8.2.1.2 Registering Add-Ons with Oracle Composer
    • 8.2.1.3 Registering Add-Ons in adf-config.xml
  • 8.2.2 What Happens at Runtime
  • 8.2.3 How to Exclude Oracle Composer Default Add-Ons
  • 8.2.4 How to Display the Customization Manager Add-On
  • 8.2.5 How to Selectively Display Add-Ons
• 8.3 Creating Custom Property Panels
  • 8.3.1 How to Create and Register Custom Property Panels
    • 8.3.1.1 Creating a Custom Property Panel
    • 8.3.1.2 Registering a Custom Property Panel for a Component
    • 8.3.1.3 Registering a Custom Property Panel for a Task Flow
  • 8.3.2 What Happens at Runtime
  • 8.3.3 How to Exclude Default Property Panels
  • 8.3.4 How to Override Default Property Panels
  • 8.3.5 How to Selectively Render Property Panels
• 8.4 Extending the Expression Builder
  • 8.4.1 How to Extend the Expression Builder
  • 8.4.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 8.5 Configuring Event Handlers for Oracle Composer UI Events
  • 8.5.1 How to Create and Register Handlers for Composer UI Events
    • 8.5.1.1 UI Events that Support Event Handler Registration
    • 8.5.1.2 Creating a Save Event Handler: Example
    • 8.5.1.3 Registering an Event Handler with Oracle Composer
  • 8.5.2 What Happens When You Create and Register Event Handlers
  • 8.5.3 Performing Additional Oracle Composer Event Handler Configurations
• 8.6 Configuring Drop Handlers in the Oracle Composer Catalog
  • 8.6.1 How to Create and Register Drop Handlers
    • 8.6.1.1 Creating a Drop Handler
    • 8.6.1.2 Registering a Drop Handler with Oracle Composer
    • 8.6.1.3 Adding an XML Component to the Resource Catalog
  • 8.6.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 8.7 Defining Property Filters
  • 8.7.1 How to Define Property Filters
  • 8.7.2 What Happens at Runtime
  • 8.7.3 How to Remove Property Filters
• 8.8 Enabling Parameter Support on the Customization Manager Task Flow
  • 8.8.1 How to Enable Parameter Support on the Customization Manager Task Flow
  • 8.8.2 What Happens When You Enable Parameter Support
• 8.9 Customizing the Oracle Composer Toolbar
  • 8.9.1 How to Rearrange or Hide Toolbar Elements
  • 8.9.2 What Happens at Runtime
  • 8.9.3 How to Add New Sections to the Toolbar
  • 8.9.4 How to Override a Toolbar Section to Display Custom Content
• 8.10 Troubleshooting Problems with Oracle Composer Extensibility Features

9 Performing Advanced Oracle Composer Configurations

• 9.1 Enabling Custom Actions on Show Detail Frame Components by Using Facets
• 9.2 Enabling Custom Actions on Show Detail Frame Components By Using Facets: Example
  • 9.2.1 How to Create an ADF Task Flow
  • 9.2.2 How to Include an Additional Actions Facet
  • 9.2.3 How to Create a Redirection Page
  • 9.2.4 How to Create Navigation Rules Between Pages
  • 9.2.5 What Happens at Runtime
• 9.3 Enabling Custom Actions on a Show Detail Frame Enclosing a Task Flow
  • 9.3.1 How to Define Custom Actions at the Instance Level
  • 9.3.2 How to Define Custom Actions at the Global Level
  • 9.3.3 How to Configure Custom Actions that Display Task Flow Views in a Separate Browser Window
  • 9.3.4 What Happens at Runtime
• 9.4 Enabling Custom Actions On a Show Detail Frame Enclosing a Task Flow: Example
• 9.5 Enabling Custom Actions on Task Flows that Display in the Component Navigator
  • 9.5.1 How to Configure Custom Actions in the Component Navigator
    • 9.5.1.1 Defining the Logic for the Custom Action
    • 9.5.1.2 Creating a JSPX Page Containing the Custom Action
    • 9.5.1.3 Calling the JSPX Page from the Application Page Containing the Task Flow
  • 9.5.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 9.6 Creating Event-Enabled Task Flows
• 9.7 Configuring an Application Page to Display in Source View by Default
  • 9.7.1 How to Configure an Application Page to Display in Source View by Default
  • 9.7.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 9.8 Disabling Source View for the Application
  • 9.8.1 How to Disable Source View
  • 9.8.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 9.9 Applying Styles to Components
• 9.10 Configuring the Persistence Change Manager
  • 9.10.1 Overview of the Default Change Manager Configuration
  • 9.10.2 How to Configure ComposerChangeManager in Existing 11.1.1.1 Applications
    • 9.10.2.1 Updating CHANGE_PERSISTENCE Context Parameter in the web.xml File
    • 9.10.2.2 Adding Relevant Entries to the adf-config.xml File
• 9.11 Configuring Runtime Resource String Editing
  • 9.11.1 Overview of the Resource String Editor
  • 9.11.2 How to Enable the Resource String Editor in Your Application
  • 9.11.3 How to Configure the Override Bundle
  • 9.11.4 What Happens at Runtime
• 9.12 Troubleshooting Problems with Advanced Oracle Composer Configurations

10 Performing Oracle Composer-Specific MDS Configurations

• 10.1 Introduction to MDS
• 10.2 Using Oracle Composer Sandbox
  • 10.2.1 How to Enable Oracle Composer Sandbox Creation
    • 10.2.1.1 Updating Your Application's adf-config.xml File
    • 10.2.1.2 Updating Your Application's web.xml File
    • 10.2.1.3 Selecting a Database Store for Your Application
  • 10.2.2 What Happens at Runtime
  • 10.2.3 How to Disable Sandbox for an Application
  • 10.2.4 How to Destroy Stale Sandboxes
  • 10.2.5 How to Enable Application Sandbox Creation
  • 10.2.6 What Happens When You Enable Application Sandbox Creation
• 10.3 Adding Customization Layers to View and Edit Modes: Example
  • 10.3.1 How to Add Oracle Composer to a JSF Page
  • 10.3.2 How to Create a Custom SiteCC Tip Layer
  • 10.3.3 How to Create a Custom UserCC Tip Layer
  • 10.3.4 How to Implement the ComposerSessionOptionsFactory Class
  • 10.3.5 How to Register the Implementation with Oracle Composer
  • 10.3.6 How to Configure WebCenterComposerFilter
  • 10.3.7 How to Redirect the Servlet to Enable Switch Between MDS Customization Layers
    • 10.3.7.1 How to Create the AppNavigationUtils Class
    • 10.3.7.2 How to Create AppCloseHandler
    • 10.3.7.3 How to Register the AppCloseHandler
    • 10.3.7.4 How to Create AppModeBean
  • 10.3.8 What Happens at Runtime
• 10.4 Troubleshooting MDS-Related Problems with Oracle Composer

11 Modifying Default Security Behavior of Oracle Composer Components

• 11.1 Applying Component-Level Restrictions by Defining Customization Policies
  • 11.1.1 How to Define Type-Level Customization Policies
  • 11.1.2 How to Define Instance-Level Customization Policies
• 11.2 Applying a Component Instance-Level Customization Restriction By Using Security Roles: Example
  • 11.2.1 How to Configure ADF Security
  • 11.2.2 How to Define Roles and Grant Privileges in the jazn-data.xml File
  • 11.2.3 How to Customize the SessionOptions Object to Include Customization Policy
  • 11.2.4 How to Register the Implementation with Oracle Composer
  • 11.2.5 How to Configure WebCenterComposerFilter
  • 11.2.6 How to Apply an Instance-Level Customization Restriction
  • 11.2.7 What Happens at Runtime
• 11.3 Applying Tag-Level Security Using the customizationAllowed Attribute
  • 11.3.1 How to Enable Customization on an Image Component
  • 11.3.2 How to Restrict Customization on an Image Component
• 11.4 Applying Attribute-Level Security
  • 11.4.1 How to Define Change Persistence at the Component Level
  • 11.4.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 11.5 Applying Action-Level Restrictions on Panel Customizable and Show Detail Component Actions
  • 11.5.1 How to Add an enableSecurity Section to adf-config.xml
  • 11.5.2 Defining Security at the Actions Category Level
  • 11.5.3 Defining Security at the Actions Level
• 11.6 Applying Task Flow Restrictions
• 11.7 Troubleshooting Problems with Oracle Composer Components Security

12 Configuring the Resource Catalog for Oracle Composer

• 12.1 Overview of Resource Catalog
• 12.2 Modifying the Content of the Default Resource Catalog
  • 12.2.1 How to Add Items to Your Resource Catalog
    • 12.2.1.1 Adding Connections for Resources
    • 12.2.1.2 Defining the Catalog Contents
    • 12.2.1.3 Enabling Task Flows in the Resource Catalog
    • 12.2.1.4 Enabling Documents in the Resource Catalog
    • 12.2.1.5 Enabling Display of Saved Searches in the Resource Catalog
  • 12.2.2 What Happens at Runtime
  • 12.2.3 What You May Need to Know When Defining a Resource Catalog
  • 12.2.4 How to Define Task Flow Parameters and Attributes of the Enclosing Show Detail Frames for Task Flows
• 12.3 Creating a Custom Resource Catalog
  • 12.3.1 How to Create a Custom Resource Catalog
  • 12.3.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 12.4 Adding XML Content to the Resource Catalog
  • 12.4.1 How to Add XML Content to the Resource Catalog
  • 12.4.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 12.5 Adding XML Content to the Resource Catalog: Examples
  • 12.5.1 Compound Object Containing Nested ADF Faces Components
  • 12.5.2 YouTube Video Nested in a Verbatim Component
  • 12.5.3 YouTube Video Nested in an Output Text Component
• 12.6 Filtering Items in the Resource Catalog
  • 12.6.1 How to Filter Items in the Resource Catalog
  • 12.6.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 12.7 Configuring Multiple Resource Catalogs
  • 12.7.1 How to Configure Multiple Resource Catalogs
  • 12.7.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 12.8 Troubleshooting Problems with the Resource Catalog

Part III Integrating, Presenting, and Publishing Content

13 Integrating Content

• 13.1 Introduction to Content Integration
  • 13.1.1 Overview of Content Adapters
  • 13.1.2 Overview of Content Presenter Display Templates and the Templates Registry
  • 13.1.3 Overview of Content Data Controls
    • 13.1.3.1 The getItems Method
    • 13.1.3.2 The search Method
    • 13.1.3.3 The advancedSearch Method
    • 13.1.3.4 The getURI Method
    • 13.1.3.5 The getAttributes Method
• 13.2 Configuring Content Repository Connections
  • 13.2.1 How to Create a Content Repository Connection Based on the Oracle Content Server Adapter
  • 13.2.2 How to Create a Content Repository Connection Based on the Oracle Portal Adapter
  • 13.2.3 How to Create a Content Repository Connection Based on the File System Adapter
  • 13.2.4 How to Create a Content Repository Connection Based on the Oracle WebCenter Adapter for Microsoft SharePoint
    • 13.2.4.1 Creating a Content Repository Connection Based on the Oracle WebCenter Adapter for Microsoft SharePoint
    • 13.2.4.2 Mapping Microsoft SharePoint Content and Services
  • 13.2.5 What Happens When You Create a Repository Connection
  • 13.2.6 What You May Need to Know When Creating a Repository Connection
    • 13.2.6.1 What You Should Know About Using Identity Propagation and External Application Authentication Methods
    • 13.2.6.2 What You Should Know About Oracle Portal
    • 13.2.6.3 What You Should Know About Oracle WebCenter Adapter for Microsoft SharePoint
  • 13.2.7 How to Edit a Common Repository Connection
  • 13.2.8 How to Edit a WebCenter Application-Specific Content Repository Connection
  • 13.2.9 How to Use an Existing Repository Connection for a New WebCenter Application
• 13.3 Adding Content to a JSF Page
• 13.4 Creating Custom Templates for Displaying Content Using Content Presenter
  • 13.4.1 How To Define Custom Display Templates
    • 13.4.1.1 EL Expressions for Content Item Nodes
    • 13.4.1.2 Defining Single Content Item Display Templates
    • 13.4.1.3 Defining Multiple Content Item Display Templates
    • 13.4.1.4 Registering Templates in the Templates Registry
    • 13.4.1.5 Importing Custom Display Templates for WebCenter Spaces Applications
    • 13.4.1.6 Testing Custom Display Templates
  • 13.4.2 Performance Considerations for Custom Display Templates
  • 13.4.3 What Happens at Runtime
    • 13.4.3.1 Identifying Display Templates for Selected Content Items
• 13.5 Configuring Content Data Controls for JCR Adapters
  • 13.5.1 How to Configure a Content Repository Data Control
  • 13.5.2 What Happens When You Configure a Content Repository Data Control
  • 13.5.3 How to Edit a Content Repository Data Control
  • 13.5.4 Securing a Content Repository Data Control
• 13.6 Integrating Content Using Content Data Controls: Examples
  • 13.6.1 How to Publish Content As Links
    • 13.6.1.1 Publishing Content As a Textual Link
    • 13.6.1.2 Creating a Clickable Image to Link to a Document
  • 13.6.2 What Happens at Runtime
  • 13.6.3 How to Publish Content in a Table
    • 13.6.3.1 Displaying Files and Folders in Read-Only Format
    • 13.6.3.2 Displaying the Name Attribute As a Go Link
    • 13.6.3.3 Configuring a Table to Show Only Files
  • 13.6.4 What Happens at Runtime
  • 13.6.5 How to Publish Folder Content in a Tree
    • 13.6.5.1 Displaying Files and Folders in Read-Only Format
    • 13.6.5.2 Displaying File Names As Hyperlinks
  • 13.6.6 What Happens at Runtime
  • 13.6.7 How to Add Search Capabilities to Content Repositories
    • 13.6.7.1 Adding Simple Search Capabilities
    • 13.6.7.2 Adding Advanced Search Capabilities
  • 13.6.8 What Happens at Runtime
  • 13.6.9 What You May Need to Know When Using Search Capabilities

14 Integrating the Documents Service

• 14.1 Introduction to the Documents Service
• 14.2 Basic Configuration for the Documents Service
  • 14.2.1 Setting Up Connections
  • 14.2.2 Adding the Documents Service to the Oracle Composer Catalog
  • 14.2.3 Adding Documents Service Task Flows at Design Time
    • 14.2.3.1 How to Add a Documents Service Task Flow at Design Time
    • 14.2.3.2 How to Modify Documents Service Task Flow Parameters
    • 14.2.3.3 How to Allow End Users to Customize Documents Service Task Flows at Runtime
    • 14.2.3.4 How End Users Can Modify Content Presenter Task Flow Parameters at Runtime
  • 14.2.4 Documents Service Task Flows and Task Flow Parameters
    • 14.2.4.1 Content Presenter Task Flow Parameters and Out-of-the-Box Display Templates
    • 14.2.4.2 Document Manager Task Flow Parameters
    • 14.2.4.3 Document List View Task Flow Parameters
    • 14.2.4.4 Recent Documents Task Flow Parameters
  • 14.2.5 Setting Security for the Documents Service
• 14.3 Advanced Information for the Documents Service
  • 14.3.1 Using the Documents Service with Other WebCenter Services
  • 14.3.2 Setting Parameters to Upload Files to Content Repositories
  • 14.3.3 Using Adapters with the Documents Service

15 Integrating the RSS Service

• 15.1 Introduction to the RSS Service
  • 15.1.1 Understanding the RSS Service
  • 15.1.2 Requirements for the RSS Service
  • 15.1.3 What Happens at Runtime
• 15.2 Basic Configuration for the RSS Service
  • 15.2.1 Setting Up a Proxy Server for the RSS Service
  • 15.2.2 Adding the RSS Service at Design Time
    • 15.2.2.1 About RSS Viewer Task Flow
    • 15.2.2.2 How to Add the RSS Viewer Task Flow to Your Application
  • 15.2.3 Setting Security for the RSS Viewer Service

Part IV Enabling Communication and Collaboration

16 Integrating the Announcements Service

• 16.1 Introduction to Announcements
  • 16.1.1 Understanding the Announcements Service
  • 16.1.2 Requirements for Announcements
  • 16.1.3 What Happens at Runtime
• 16.2 Basic Configuration for the Announcements Service
  • 16.2.1 Setting Up a Connection for Announcements
    • 16.2.1.1 Announcements Connections
    • 16.2.1.2 How to Set Up Connections for Announcements
  • 16.2.2 Adding the Announcements Service at Design Time
    • 16.2.2.1 Announcements Task Flows
    • 16.2.2.2 How to Add Announcements to Your Application
  • 16.2.3 Setting Security for Announcements
• 16.3 Advanced Information for the Announcements Service
  • 16.3.1 How to Add the Announcements - Sidebar View Task Flow
  • 16.3.2 Customizing Announcements Views
  • 16.3.3 Obtaining Group Space RSS News Feed URL for the Announcements Service

17 Integrating the Discussions Service

• 17.1 Introduction to Discussions
  • 17.1.1 Understanding the Discussions Service
  • 17.1.2 Requirements for Discussions
  • 17.1.3 What Happens at Runtime
• 17.2 Basic Configuration for the Discussions Service
  • 17.2.1 Setting up Connections for Discussions
    • 17.2.1.1 Discussions Connections
    • 17.2.1.2 How to Set Up Connections for Discussions
  • 17.2.2 Adding the Discussions Service at Design Time
    • 17.2.2.1 Discussions Task Flows
    • 17.2.2.2 How to Add Discussions to your Application
  • 17.2.3 Setting Security for Discussions
• 17.3 Advanced Information for the Discussions Service
  • 17.3.1 Customizing Discussions Views
  • 17.3.2 Adding the Discussions - Popular Topics Task Flow
  • 17.3.3 Adding the Discussions - Recent Topics Task Flow
  • 17.3.4 Adding the Discussions - Watched Forums Task Flow
  • 17.3.5 Adding the Discussions - Watched Topics Task Flow
  • 17.3.6 Adding the Discussions - Sidebar View Task Flow
  • 17.3.7 Obtaining Group Space RSS News Feed URL for the Discussions Service
  • 17.3.8 Using Custom Discussions APIs
  • 17.3.9 Using the Discussions Service REST APIs
    • 17.3.9.1 Discussions Entry Point
    • 17.3.9.2 Discussions Resource Type Taxonomy
    • 17.3.9.3 Security Considerations
    • 17.3.9.4 Discussions Resource Types
  • 17.3.10 Troubleshooting the Discussions Service

18 Integrating the Instant Messaging and Presence Service

• 18.1 Introduction to the IMP Service
  • 18.1.1 Understanding the IMP Service
  • 18.1.2 Requirements for IMP
• 18.2 Basic Configuration for the IMP Service
  • 18.2.1 Setting up Connections for the IMP Service
    • 18.2.1.1 IMP Service Connections
    • 18.2.1.2 How to Set Up Microsoft LCS Connections for the IMP Service
    • 18.2.1.3 How to Set Up Microsoft OCS Connections for the IMP Service
    • 18.2.1.4 How to Set Up OWLCS Connections for the IMP Service
  • 18.2.2 Adding the IMP Service at Design Time
    • 18.2.2.1 IMP Service Task Flows
    • 18.2.2.2 How to Add the IMP Service to your Application
    • 18.2.2.3 Adding the Buddies Task Flow
  • 18.2.3 Setting Security for the IMP Service
• 18.3 Advanced Information for the IMP Service
  • 18.3.1 Customizing IMP Views
  • 18.3.2 Troubleshooting the IMP Service

19 Integrating the Mail Service

• 19.1 Introduction to the Mail Service
  • 19.1.1 Understanding the Mail Service
  • 19.1.2 Requirements for the Mail Service
• 19.2 Basic Configuration for the Mail Service
  • 19.2.1 Setting up Connections for the Mail Service
  • 19.2.2 Adding the Mail Service at Design Time
    • 19.2.2.1 Mail Service Task Flows
    • 19.2.2.2 How to Add the Mail Service to your Application
  • 19.2.3 Setting Security for the Mail Service
• 19.3 Advanced Information for the Mail Service
  • 19.3.1 Invoking the Mail Compose Page
  • 19.3.2 Configuring the Number of Mails Displayed
  • 19.3.3 Troubleshooting the Mail Service

20 Integrating the People Connections Service

• 20.1 Introduction to the People Connections Service
  • 20.1.1 Understanding the People Connections Service
    • 20.1.1.1 Activity Stream
    • 20.1.1.2 Connections
    • 20.1.1.3 Feedback
    • 20.1.1.4 Message Board
    • 20.1.1.5 Profile
  • 20.1.2 Requirements for the People Connections Service
• 20.2 Basic Configuration for the People Connections Service
  • 20.2.1 How to Set Up a Database Connection for the People Connections Service
  • 20.2.2 Adding the People Connections Service at Design Time
    • 20.2.2.1 People Connections Service Task Flows
    • 20.2.2.2 How to Add People Connections Service Task Flows to a Page
  • 20.2.3 Setting Security for the People Connections Service
• 20.3 Advanced Information for the People Connections Service
  • 20.3.1 Establishing Site-Level Settings for People Connections Features
    • 20.3.1.1 Understanding the People Connections Site-Level Setting Scripts
    • 20.3.1.2 Supported Site-Level Settings for People Connections Features
    • 20.3.1.3 Example: Configuring Connections to Accept Invitations Automatically
  • 20.3.2 Customizing People Connections Task Flows Using Task Flow Binding Parameters
    • 20.3.2.1 How to Revise People Connections Task Flow Binding Parameters
    • 20.3.2.2 People Connections Task Flow Binding Parameters
  • 20.3.3 Using the People Connections Service REST APIs
    • 20.3.3.1 Activity Stream REST APIs
    • 20.3.3.2 Connections and Profile REST APIs
    • 20.3.3.3 Feedback REST APIs
    • 20.3.3.4 Message Board REST APIs
• 20.4 Troubleshooting the People Connections Service

21 Integrating Oracle WebCenter Wiki and Blog Server

• 21.1 Introduction to the Wiki and Blog Services
  • 21.1.1 Understanding the Wiki and Blog Services
  • 21.1.2 Requirements for the Wiki and Blog Services
  • 21.1.3 What Happens at Runtime
• 21.2 Basic Configuration for the Wiki and Blog Services
  • 21.2.1 Adding Wikis or Blogs to Your Application or Portal
    • 21.2.1.1 Adding Wikis or Blogs by Using a Portlet
    • 21.2.1.2 Adding Wikis or Blogs by Using an IFRAME
    • 21.2.1.3 Adding Wikis or Blogs by Using Web Services
  • 21.2.2 Oracle WebCenter Wiki and Blog Server URL Endpoints and Query String Parameters
  • 21.2.3 Oracle WebCenter Wiki and Blog Server Web Services Interface
    • 21.2.3.1 Definition of the Interface
    • 21.2.3.2 Oracle WebCenter Wiki and Blog Server Web Services Security
    • 21.2.3.3 Generating the Web Services Client Stub
    • 21.2.3.4 Sample Code for Accessing the Web Services Interface
• 21.3 Advanced Information for the Wiki and Blog Services

Part V Helping Users Find Content

22 Integrating the Links Service

• 22.1 Introduction to the Links Service
  • 22.1.1 Understanding the Links Service
  • 22.1.2 Requirements for the Links Service
  • 22.1.3 What Happens at Runtime
• 22.2 Basic Configuration for the Links Service
  • 22.2.1 Setting up Connections for the Links Service
  • 22.2.2 Adding the Links Service at Design Time
    • 22.2.2.1 Links Service Task Flows
    • 22.2.2.2 How to Add the Links Service to your Application
  • 22.2.3 Setting Security for the Links Service
  • 22.2.4 Troubleshooting the Links Service

23 Integrating the Tags Service

• 23.1 Introduction to the Tags Service
  • 23.1.1 Understanding the Tags Service
  • 23.1.2 Requirements for the Tags Service
  • 23.1.3 What Happens at Runtime
• 23.2 Basic Configuration for the Tags Service
  • 23.2.1 Setting up Connections for the Tags Service
    • 23.2.1.1 How to Set Up Connections for the Tags Service
  • 23.2.2 Adding the Tags Service at Design Time
    • 23.2.2.1 Tags Service Components
    • 23.2.2.2 Tags Service Task Flows
    • 23.2.2.3 How to Add the Tags Service to your Application
  • 23.2.3 Setting Security for the Tags Service
• 23.3 Advanced Information for the Tags Service
  • 23.3.1 Optional Way to Show Tags on Pages
  • 23.3.2 Using the Resource Action Handling Framework to Tag Custom Objects
  • 23.3.3 Using Tagged Cloud and Tagged Items Together

24 Integrating the Search Service

• 24.1 Introduction to Search
  • 24.1.1 Understanding the Search Service
  • 24.1.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 24.2 Basic Configuration for the Search Service
  • 24.2.1 Setting up Connections for the Search Service
  • 24.2.2 Adding the Search Service at Design Time
    • 24.2.2.1 Search Service Task Flows
    • 24.2.2.2 How to Add the Search Service to Your Application
  • 24.2.3 Setting Security for the Search Service
• 24.3 Advanced Information for the Search Service
  • 24.3.1 Adding the Search Task Flow
  • 24.3.2 Adding the Search - Saved Searches Task Flow
  • 24.3.3 Adding the Search Preferences Task Flow
  • 24.3.4 Including Oracle SES Results in WebCenter Search Results
    • 24.3.4.1 Including Oracle SES Results in WebCenter Searches
    • 24.3.4.2 Validating the Oracle SES Connection
  • 24.3.5 Using Search Service APIs
  • 24.3.6 Building Adapters for the Search Service
    • 24.3.6.1 How to Add a Search Source
    • 24.3.6.2 How to Register a Custom Adapter
    • 24.3.6.3 Search Adapter Attributes
    • 24.3.6.4 What Happens at Runtime
  • 24.3.7 Troubleshooting the Search Service

Part VI Helping Users Keep Track

25 Integrating the Recent Activities Service

• 25.1 Introduction to the Recent Activities Service
  • 25.1.1 Understanding the Recent Activities Service
  • 25.1.2 What Happens at Runtime
• 25.2 Basic Configuration for the Recent Activities Service
  • 25.2.1 Setting up Connections for the Recent Activities Service
  • 25.2.2 Adding the Recent Activities Service at Design Time
  • 25.2.3 Setting Security for the Recent Activities Service
• 25.3 Advanced Information for the Recent Activities Service
  • 25.3.1 Refining the Behavior of the Recent Activities Service
  • 25.3.2 Obtaining RSS News Feed URL for the Recent Activities Service

26 Integrating the Worklist Service

• 26.1 Introduction to the Worklist Service
  • 26.1.1 Understanding Worklists
  • 26.1.2 Requirements for the Worklist Service
  • 26.1.3 What Happens at Runtime
• 26.2 Basic Configuration for the Worklist Service
  • 26.2.1 Setting up Connections for the Worklist Service
    • 26.2.1.1 Worklist Service Connections
    • 26.2.1.2 How to Set Up Connections for the Worklist Service
  • 26.2.2 Adding the Worklist Service at Design Time
    • 26.2.2.1 Worklist Service Task Flows
    • 26.2.2.2 How to Add the Worklist Service to your Application
  • 26.2.3 Setting Security for the Worklist Service
• 26.3 Advanced Information for the Worklist Service

Part VII Extending Your Application

27 Integrating with Oracle WebCenter Spaces

• 27.1 Introduction to WebCenter Spaces
• 27.2 Exposing WebCenter Spaces in Custom WebCenter Applications Using APIs
  • 27.2.1 Introduction to WebCenter Spaces APIs
  • 27.2.2 Case Study 1: Purchasing Application Uses a Group Space to Evaluate Suppliers
  • 27.2.3 Case Study 2: Customer Support Center Application Uses a Group Space to Discuss Customer Escalations
  • 27.2.4 How to Set Up Your Custom WebCenter Application to Use the WebCenter Spaces APIs
    • 27.2.4.1 Verifying That WebCenter Spaces Is Up and Running
    • 27.2.4.2 Setting Up the Custom WebCenter Application to Use WebCenter Spaces APIs
    • 27.2.4.3 Securing the Connection Between the Application and WebCenter Spaces
    • 27.2.4.4 Setting Up the Group Space Client Context
  • 27.2.5 How to Provide Group Space Functionality in Custom WebCenter Applications
    • 27.2.5.1 Managing Group Spaces and Templates
    • 27.2.5.2 Managing Group Space Membership
    • 27.2.5.3 Retrieving Group Space and Template Information
  • 27.2.6 How to Handle Exceptions Raised by WebCenter Spaces APIs
    • 27.2.6.1 Providing Localized Error Messages
    • 27.2.6.2 Listing the Error Stack
  • 27.2.7 Finding More Information on WebCenter Spaces APIs
  • 27.2.8 Troubleshooting Issues with WebCenter Spaces APIs
• 27.3 Using the WebCenter Spaces REST APIs
  • 27.3.1 WebCenter Spaces Entry Point
  • 27.3.2 WebCenter Spaces Resource Type Taxonomy
  • 27.3.3 WebCenter Spaces Security Considerations
  • 27.3.4 WebCenter Spaces Resource Types
    • 27.3.4.1 urn:oracle:webcenter:spaces
    • 27.3.4.2 urn:oracle:webcenter:space
    • 27.3.4.3 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:members
    • 27.3.4.4 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:member
    • 27.3.4.5 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:attributes
    • 27.3.4.6 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:attribute
    • 27.3.4.7 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:resourceindex
    • 27.3.4.8 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:lists
    • 27.3.4.9 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:list
    • 27.3.4.10 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:list:rows
    • 27.3.4.11 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:list:row
    • 27.3.4.12 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:list:columns
    • 27.3.4.13 urn:oracle:webcenter:space:list:column
• 27.4 Exposing Enterprise Applications in WebCenter Spaces
  • 27.4.1 Exposing Custom WebCenter Applications in WebCenter Spaces
  • 27.4.2 Exposing Oracle Applications in WebCenter Spaces
  • 27.4.3 Exposing Non-Oracle Applications in WebCenter Spaces

28 Using Oracle WebCenter REST APIs

• 28.1 Introduction to REST
• 28.2 Introduction to WebCenter REST APIs
• 28.3 Understanding the Link Model
  • 28.3.1 The Resource Index
  • 28.3.2 The Anatomy of a Link
    • 28.3.2.1 Resource Type
    • 28.3.2.2 Relationship
    • 28.3.2.3 Capabilities
    • 28.3.2.4 Media Type
    • 28.3.2.5 Templates
• 28.4 Understanding Items Hypermedia
• 28.5 Navigating Hypermedia Using HTTP
• 28.6 Security Considerations for WebCenter REST APIs
• 28.7 Understanding Common Types
  • 28.7.1 Common Types
    • 28.7.1.1 personReference
    • 28.7.1.2 groupSpaceReference
  • 28.7.2 Portable Contact Types
    • 28.7.2.1 name Portable Contact Type
    • 28.7.2.2 address Portable Contact Type
    • 28.7.2.3 organization Portable Contact Type
    • 28.7.2.4 value Portable Contact Type
• 28.8 WebCenter REST API Examples
  • 28.8.1 Navigating the Message Board Hypermedia
    • 28.8.1.1 Accessing the Resource Index
    • 28.8.1.2 Reading Messages
    • 28.8.1.3 Creating a New Message
    • 28.8.1.4 Updating a Message
    • 28.8.1.5 Deleting a Message
  • 28.8.2 Displaying Activity Stream Data
  • 28.8.3 Using the WebCenter People Connections Service REST APIs with Ext
    • 28.8.3.1 Creating the HTML Page
    • 28.8.3.2 Creating the JavaScript File
    • 28.8.3.3 The Result
  • 28.8.4 Updating User Status

Part VIII Working with Portlets and Portals

29 Overview of Portlets

• 29.1 Introduction to Portlets
  • 29.1.1 Portlet Anatomy
  • 29.1.2 Portlet Resources
    • 29.1.2.1 JSF Portlets
    • 29.1.2.2 Rich Text Portlet
    • 29.1.2.3 Prebuilt Portlets
    • 29.1.2.4 Parameter Form and Parameter Display Portlets
    • 29.1.2.5 Web Clipping
    • 29.1.2.6 OmniPortlet
    • 29.1.2.7 Programmatic Portlets
    • 29.1.2.8 Deciding Which Tool to Use
• 29.2 Portlet Technologies Matrix
  • 29.2.1 General Suitability
    • 29.2.1.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.1.2 Web Clipping
    • 29.2.1.3 OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.1.4 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.2 Expertise Required
    • 29.2.2.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.2.2 Web Clipping
    • 29.2.2.3 OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.2.4 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.3 Deployment Type
    • 29.2.3.1 PDK-Java Producers
    • 29.2.3.2 WSRP Producers
    • 29.2.3.3 Producer Architecture
  • 29.2.4 Caching Style
    • 29.2.4.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.4.2 Web Clipping and OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.4.3 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.5 Development Tool
    • 29.2.5.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.5.2 Web Clipping and OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.5.3 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.6 Portlet Creation Style
    • 29.2.6.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.6.2 OmniPortlet and Web Clipping
    • 29.2.6.3 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.7 User Interface Flexibility
    • 29.2.7.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.7.2 Web Clipping
    • 29.2.7.3 OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.7.4 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.8 Ability to Capture Content from Web Sites
    • 29.2.8.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.8.2 Web Clipping
    • 29.2.8.3 OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.8.4 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.9 Ability to Render Content Inline
    • 29.2.9.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.9.2 Web Clipping
    • 29.2.9.3 OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.9.4 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.10 Charting Capability
    • 29.2.10.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.10.2 Web Clipping
    • 29.2.10.3 OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.10.4 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.11 Public Portlet Parameter Support
  • 29.2.12 Private Portlet Parameter Support
    • 29.2.12.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.12.2 OmniPortlet and Web Clipping
    • 29.2.12.3 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.13 Ability to Hide and Show Portlets Based on User Privileges
    • 29.2.13.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.13.2 Web Clipping and OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.13.3 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.14 Multilingual Support
  • 29.2.15 Pagination Support
    • 29.2.15.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.15.2 Web Clipping
    • 29.2.15.3 OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.15.4 Programmatic Portlets
  • 29.2.16 Authenticating to External Applications
    • 29.2.16.1 Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
    • 29.2.16.2 Web Clipping
    • 29.2.16.3 OmniPortlet
    • 29.2.16.4 Programmatic Portlets

30 Creating Portlets with the Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge

• 30.1 Introduction to the Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge
• 30.2 Creating a Portlet from a JSF Application
  • 30.2.1 How to Create a JSF Portlet Based on a Page
  • 30.2.2 How to Create a JSF Portlet Based on a Task Flow
    • 30.2.2.1 Creating a Portlet From a Task Flow Using the Create Portlet Entry Dialog
    • 30.2.2.2 Creating a Portlet From a Task Flow Using the Manage Portlet Entries of Task Flows Dialog
  • 30.2.3 How to Test a JSF Portlet
  • 30.2.4 What Happens at Runtime
  • 30.2.5 What You May Need to Know When Creating a JSF Portlet
    • 30.2.5.1 General Guidelines
    • 30.2.5.2 Portlet Guidelines
    • 30.2.5.3 Security Guidelines
    • 30.2.5.4 JSF Guidelines
    • 30.2.5.5 Oracle ADF Guidelines
• 30.3 Creating JSF Portlets: Example
  • 30.3.1 How to Create the Example Application
  • 30.3.2 How to Create Portlets from the Task Flows in the Example Application
  • 30.3.3 How to Consume the JSF Portlets from the Example Application

31 Creating Portlets with the Portlet Wizard

• 31.1 Introduction to Java Portlets
  • 31.1.1 Introduction to Standards-Based Java Portlets
  • 31.1.2 Introduction to PDK-Java Portlets
• 31.2 Creating Java Portlets
  • 31.2.1 How to Create a JSR 168 Java Portlet
  • 31.2.2 What Happens When You Create a JSR 168 Java Portlet Using the JDeveloper Wizard
  • 31.2.3 How to Create a PDK-Java Portlet
  • 31.2.4 What Happens When You Create a PDK-Java Portlet
  • 31.2.5 What You May Need to Know When Creating Java Portlets
    • 31.2.5.1 Guidelines for Portlet Modes
    • 31.2.5.2 Guidelines for Navigation within a Portlet
    • 31.2.5.3 Guidelines for JavaScript
    • 31.2.5.4 Guidelines for PDK-Java Portlets

32 Coding Portlets

• 32.1 Enhancing JSR 168 Java Portlets
  • 32.1.1 How to Add Personalization
  • 32.1.2 How to Implement Navigational Parameters (WSRP 2.0)
  • 32.1.3 How to Implement Export/Import of Customizations (WSRP 2.0)
  • 32.1.4 How to Implement Rewritten URLs for Resource Proxy
  • 32.1.5 How to Implement Stateless Resource Proxying
  • 32.1.6 How to Disable Java Object Cache for Preference Store Access
  • 32.1.7 How to Implement Security for JSR 168 Portlets
• 32.2 Enhancing PDK-Java Portlets
  • 32.2.1 How to Add Portlet Modes
  • 32.2.2 How to Implement Public Parameters
  • 32.2.3 How to Implement Private Parameters
    • 32.2.3.1 About Private Parameters
    • 32.2.3.2 About Portlet URL Types
    • 32.2.3.3 Building Links with the Portlet URL Types
    • 32.2.3.4 Building Forms with the Portlet URL Types
    • 32.2.3.5 Implementing Navigation within a Portlet
    • 32.2.3.6 Restricting Navigation to Resources
  • 32.2.4 How to Use JNDI Variables
    • 32.2.4.1 Declaring JNDI Variables
    • 32.2.4.2 Setting JNDI Variable Values
    • 32.2.4.3 Retrieving JNDI Variables
  • 32.2.5 How to Access Session Information
  • 32.2.6 How to Enhance Portlet Performance with Caching
    • 32.2.6.1 Activating Caching
    • 32.2.6.2 Adding Expiry-Based Caching
    • 32.2.6.3 Adding Validation-Based Caching
• 32.3 Testing Portlet Personalization
• 32.4 Creating a Struts Portlet
  • 32.4.1 How to Create a New Flow and View to Host the Portlet Actions
  • 32.4.2 How to Create the New JSPs
  • 32.4.3 How to Create a Portlet
  • 32.4.4 How to Extend the Portlet to Add Business Logic
  • 32.4.5 How to Register the Producer

33 Testing and Deploying Your Portlets

• 33.1 Introduction to Portlet Deployment Testing in a Development Environment
• 33.2 Testing a Portlet Application on Integrated WebLogic Server
  • 33.2.1 How to Test JSR 168 Portlets on Integrated WebLogic Server
  • 33.2.2 What Happens When You Test JSR 168 Portlets on Integrated WebLogic Server
  • 33.2.3 How to Test PDK-Java Portlet Applications on Integrated WebLogic Server
  • 33.2.4 What Happens When You Test PDK-Java Portlet Applications on Integrated WebLogic Server
• 33.3 Deploying a Portlet Application to an Oracle WebLogic Managed Server Instance
  • 33.3.1 How to Create Deployment Profiles
    • 33.3.1.1 Creating a WAR Deployment Profile
    • 33.3.1.2 Creating a Deployment Descriptor
  • 33.3.2 How to Create and Provision a WebLogic Managed Server Instance
  • 33.3.3 How to Create and Register the Metadata Service Repository
  • 33.3.4 How to Create a WebLogic Managed Server Connection
  • 33.3.5 How to Deploy a Portlet Application to an Oracle WebLogic Managed Server Instance
  • 33.3.6 What Happens When You Deploy a Portlet Application to an Oracle WebLogic-Managed Portlet Server
• 33.4 Registering and Viewing Your Portlet

34 Consuming Portlets

• 34.1 Introduction to Consuming Portlets
• 34.2 Registering Portlet Producers with a Custom WebCenter Application
  • 34.2.1 How to Register a WSRP Portlet Producer
  • 34.2.2 How to Map a Producer's Declared User Categories to an Application's Defined Java EE Security Roles
  • 34.2.3 How to Register an Oracle PDK-Java Portlet Producer
  • 34.2.4 How to Edit Portlet Producer Registration Settings
  • 34.2.5 How to Test a Portlet Producer Connection
  • 34.2.6 How to Refresh a Portlet Producer
  • 34.2.7 How to Delete a Portlet Producer
• 34.3 Adding Portlets to a Page
  • 34.3.1 How to Add a Portlet to a Page
  • 34.3.2 What Happens When You Add a Portlet to a Page
  • 34.3.3 What Happens at Runtime
• 34.4 Setting Attribute Values for the Portlet Tag
  • 34.4.1 How to Set Attribute Values for the Portlet Tag Using the Property Inspector
  • 34.4.2 How to Set Attribute Values for the Portlet Tag in Source Code
  • 34.4.3 Common Attributes of the Portlet Tag
  • 34.4.4 Appearance Attributes of the Portlet Tag
  • 34.4.5 Behavior Attributes of the Portlet Tag
  • 34.4.6 Portlet Modes Attributes of the Portlet Tag
  • 34.4.7 Style Attributes of the Portlet Tag
  • 34.4.8 Binding Attributes of the Portlet Tag
  • 34.4.9 Customization Attributes of the Portlet Tag
  • 34.4.10 Other Attributes of the Portlet Tag
  • 34.4.11 What You May Need to Know About Maximize, Minimize, Restore, and Move
  • 34.4.12 What You May Need to Know About IFRAMEs
• 34.5 Copying Portlets
  • 34.5.1 How to Copy a Portlet and Place it on the Same Page
  • 34.5.2 How to Copy a Portlet from One Application Page to Another
• 34.6 Deleting Portlets from Application Pages
• 34.7 Contextually Linking WSRP 2.0 Portlets
  • 34.7.1 How to Link Portlets With Navigational Parameters
  • 34.7.2 What Happens at Runtime
  • 34.7.3 How To Associate Navigational Parameters with ADFm Events
  • 34.7.4 What Happens at Runtime
  • 34.7.5 How To Cascade Events Across Multiple Components
  • 34.7.6 What Happens at Runtime

35 Creating Portlets with OmniPortlet

• 35.1 Introduction to OmniPortlet
• 35.2 Adding OmniPortlet to Your Application
• 35.3 Customizing OmniPortlet
• 35.4 Troubleshooting OmniPortlet Problems

36 Creating Content-Based Portlets with Web Clipping

• 36.1 Introduction to Web Clipping
• 36.2 Adding Web Clipping to Your Application
• 36.3 Integrating Authenticated Web Content Using Single Sign-On
• 36.4 Advanced Features of Web Clipping
  • 36.4.1 Using the Web Clipping Transport API
    • 36.4.1.1 Implementing the Web Clipping Transport API
    • 36.4.1.2 Deploying the Web Clipping Transport API
  • 36.4.2 Rewriting Image Links to Use a Resource Proxy
• 36.5 Current Limitations of Web Clipping
• 36.6 Troubleshooting Web Clipping

Part IX Completing Your WebCenter Application

37 Securing Your WebCenter Application

• 37.1 Introduction to WebCenter Application Security
• 37.2 Working with External Applications
  • 37.2.1 Using External Applications
    • 37.2.1.1 Secured Service Connections
    • 37.2.1.2 Automated Single Sign-On
  • 37.2.2 Supplying User Credentials
  • 37.2.3 Managing External Applications
    • 37.2.3.1 Working with External Applications in Oracle JDeveloper
    • 37.2.3.2 Working with External Applications in Enterprise Manager
    • 37.2.3.3 Working with External Applications Using WLST
• 37.3 Setting Up Security for Your Application
• 37.4 Creating a Login Portlet
• 37.5 Creating Login Pages and a Login Component
• 37.6 Adding Portlets to a Login Page
• 37.7 Creating a Public Welcome Page for Your Application
• 37.8 Configuring Basic Authentication for Testing Portlet Personalization
• 37.9 Registering Custom Certificates with the Keystore
• 37.10 Overriding Inherited Security on Portlets and Customizable Components
  • 37.10.1 Portlets Security
    • 37.10.1.1 Defining Security at the Actions Category Level
    • 37.10.1.2 Defining Security at the Actions Level
• 37.11 Identity Propagation Mechanisms
• 37.12 Securing Identity Propagation Through WSRP Producers with WS-Security
  • 37.12.1 Identity Propagation Without WS-Security
  • 37.12.2 Identity Propagation with WS-Security
  • 37.12.3 Configuring Security for WSRP Portlets
• 37.13 Implementing PDK-Java Portlet Security
  • 37.13.1 Assumptions
  • 37.13.2 Introduction to PDK-Java Portlet Security Features
    • 37.13.2.1 Identity Propagation
    • 37.13.2.2 Authorization
    • 37.13.2.3 Message-level Security
  • 37.13.3 Single Sign-On
    • 37.13.3.1 External Application
    • 37.13.3.2 No Application Authentication
  • 37.13.4 Portlet Security Managers
    • 37.13.4.1 Implementing Your Own Security Manager
  • 37.13.5 Message Authentication
  • 37.13.6 User Input Escape
    • 37.13.6.1 Default Container Encoding
    • 37.13.6.2 Escape Methods
• 37.14 Troubleshooting Security Issues
  • 37.14.1 Error Message Appears When Running a Page with a Content Repository Data Control Method Being Consumed

38 Testing and Deploying Your WebCenter Application

• 38.1 Introduction to Oracle WebLogic Servers
• 38.2 Testing a Custom WebCenter Application on the Integrated WebLogic Server
• 38.3 Packaging and Deploying a Custom WebCenter Application to a WebLogic Managed Server
  • 38.3.1 Packaging a Custom WebCenter Application
    • 38.3.1.1 Packaging Database Connections and Application Security
    • 38.3.1.2 Creating Deployment Profiles
  • 38.3.2 Preparing the Target Environment for Deployment
    • 38.3.2.1 Creating and Provisioning an Oracle WebLogic Managed Server Instance
    • 38.3.2.2 Creating and Registering the Metadata Service Repository
    • 38.3.2.3 Configuring the Target Environment
    • 38.3.2.4 Creating a WebLogic Managed Server Connection
  • 38.3.3 Deploying a Custom WebCenter Application to a Managed Server
• 38.4 Transporting Customizations Between Environments

39 Working Productively in Teams

• 39.1 Enabling Source Control on WebCenter Applications
  • 39.1.1 Importing Application Files into CVS
  • 39.1.2 Creating a Subversion Repository
• 39.2 Understanding WebCenter Application Files Affected by Developers
  • 39.2.1 Files Associated With Common Objects
  • 39.2.2 Developer Actions Affecting Metadata Files
• 39.3 Implementing Common Requirements One Time
• 39.4 Portlet Producer Considerations
  • 39.4.1 Portlet Producer Connections
  • 39.4.2 Portlet Producer Name Clashes
  • 39.4.3 Combining Portlets from Different Portlet Producers

Part X Appendixes

A Files for WebCenter Applications

• A.1 About Files
• A.2 Files Overview
• A.3 Files Related to JSR 168 Portlets
  • A.3.1 portlet.xml
  • A.3.2 oracle-portlet.xml
    • A.3.2.1 oracle-portlet.xml Syntax
    • A.3.2.2 oracle-portlet.xml Sample With Navigation Parameters
  • A.3.3 oracle-portlet-tags.jar
  • A.3.4 portlet_mode.jsp
  • A.3.5 portlet_name.java
  • A.3.6 portlet_nameBundle.jar
  • A.3.7 web.xml
  • A.3.8 connections.xml
• A.4 Files Related to PDK-Java Portlets
  • A.4.1 producer_name.properties
  • A.4.2 _default.properties
  • A.4.3 index.jsp
  • A.4.4 portlet_name_modePage.jsp
  • A.4.5 provider.xml
    • A.4.5.1 provider.xml Syntax
    • A.4.5.2 provider.xml Sample
  • A.4.6 web.xml
  • A.4.7 connections.xml
• A.5 Files Related to Pages
  • A.5.1 adf-config.xml
  • A.5.2 DataBindings.cpx
  • A.5.3 faces-config.xml
  • A.5.4 page_name.jspx
  • A.5.5 PageDef.xml
  • A.5.6 web.xml
  • A.5.7 mds Subdirectory
  • A.5.8 wsdl Subdirectory
• A.6 Files Related to Security
  • A.6.1 jazn-data.xml
  • A.6.2 cwallet.sso
  • A.6.3 jps-config.xml
  • A.6.4 adf-config.xml
• A.7 Files Related to WebCenter Web 2.0 Services

B Oracle Composer Component Properties and Files

• B.1 Oracle Composer Component Properties
  • B.1.1 Page Customizable
  • B.1.2 Change Mode Link and Change Mode Button
  • B.1.3 Layout Customizable Component
  • B.1.4 Panel Customizable Component
  • B.1.5 Show Detail Frame Component
  • B.1.6 Custom Action
  • B.1.7 ImageLink
• B.2 Oracle Composer-Specific Files and Configurations
  • B.2.1 pe_ext.xml
    • B.2.1.1 addon-config
    • B.2.1.2 property-panels
    • B.2.1.3 event-handlers
    • B.2.1.4 drop-handlers
    • B.2.1.5 filter-config
    • B.2.1.6 elbuilder-config
    • B.2.1.7 Sample pe_ext.xml File
  • B.2.2 adf-config.xml
    • B.2.2.1 page-editor-config
    • B.2.2.2 addon-panels
    • B.2.2.3 sandbox-namespaces
    • B.2.2.4 session-options-factory
    • B.2.2.5 rcv-config
    • B.2.2.6 customizableComponentsSecurity
    • B.2.2.7 mds-config
    • B.2.2.8 resource-string-editor
    • B.2.2.9 enable-source-view
    • B.2.2.10 persistent-change-manager
    • B.2.2.11 taglib-config
    • B.2.2.12 Sample adf-config.xml File
  • B.2.3 web.xml
    • B.2.3.1 CHANGE_PERSISTENCE Context Parameter
    • B.2.3.2 WebCenterComposerFilter
• B.3 Oracle Composer Default Add-Ons and Property Panels
  • B.3.1 Default Add-Ons
  • B.3.2 Default Property Panels
• B.4 Oracle Composer Help Topic IDs
• B.5 Oracle Composer Components Style-Specific Properties
  • B.5.1 Style Selectors for Oracle Composer Components
    • B.5.1.1 Global Style Selectors
    • B.5.1.2 Page Customizable Style Selectors
    • B.5.1.3 Layout Customizable Style Selectors
    • B.5.1.4 Panel Customizable Style Selectors
    • B.5.1.5 Show Detail Frame Style Selectors
  • B.5.2 Style Attributes
• B.6 Customizable Components (HTML) Properties
  • B.6.1 Panel Customizable (HTML) Component
  • B.6.2 Show Detail Frame (HTML) Component
  • B.6.3 Customizable Components (HTML) Style Selectors
    • B.6.3.1 Panel Customizable (HTML) Style Selectors
    • B.6.3.2 Show Detail Frame (HTML) Style Selectors
    • B.6.3.3 Property Keys
    • B.6.3.4 Icon Selectors

C Resource Catalog Properties and Files

• C.1 Configuration and Location of Catalog Definitions
• C.2 Default Catalog Definition
• C.3 XML Schema
• C.4 Catalog Definition Attributes
  • C.4.1 catalogDefinition
  • C.4.2 dynamicFolder
  • C.4.3 folder
  • C.4.4 attributes
  • C.4.5 attribute
  • C.4.6 resource
  • C.4.7 component
  • C.4.8 schema

D Guidelines for Creating Task Flows to Be Used in Oracle Composer-Enabled Pages

• D.1 Guidelines for Effective Geometry Management and Pagination
  • D.1.1 Guideline 1: Create Task Flows that Flow
    • D.1.1.1 Example 1: Oracle ADF Faces Table Component with Its autoHeightRows Attribute Set to a Specific Value
    • D.1.1.2 Example 2: Oracle ADF Faces Iterator Component Inside a Panel Group Layout with a Scrolling Layout
  • D.1.2 Guideline 2: Limit the Number of Records Displayed in a Task Flow
  • D.1.3 Guideline 3: Specify a Minimum Height for the Task Flow
  • D.1.4 Guideline 4: Include UI for Accessing Data Beyond the Display Limit
• D.2 Guidelines for Efficient Use of Task Flow Parameters and Customization and Personalization Options
  • D.2.1 Guidelines for Implementing Task Flow Parameters
  • D.2.2 Guidelines for Implementing Customization
  • D.2.3 Guidelines for Implementing Personalization
  • D.2.4 Guidelines for Implementing Implicit Personalization
• D.3 Example of a WebCenter Application Containing a Task Flow Created By Following the Guidelines
  • D.3.1 The RecentPagesTaskFlow Project
    • D.3.1.1 The recent-pages-task-flow-definition.xml File
    • D.3.1.2 The mainView.jsff Fragment
    • D.3.1.3 The simpleEditPopupView.jspx Page
    • D.3.1.4 The advancedEditPopupView.jspx Page
    • D.3.1.5 The recentPagesBean Java Bean
    • D.3.1.6 The Preference Bean
  • D.3.2 The WebPages Project
    • D.3.2.1 The Welcome.jspx File
    • D.3.2.2 The adf-config.xml File
  • D.3.3 Runtime Behavior
• D.4 Conclusion

E Calling Oracle SES to Search Data

• E.1 Calling Oracle SES to Search Data
  • E.1.1 Creating a Data Control
  • E.1.2 Adding the Data Control on a Page
  • E.1.3 Formatting the Output
    • E.1.3.1 Additional Formatting

F Additional Portlet Configuration

• F.1 Java Portlet Configuration Tips
• F.2 OmniPortlet Configuration Tips
  • F.2.1 Configuring the OmniPortlet Producer to Access Data Outside a Firewall
  • F.2.2 Configuring the OmniPortlet Producer to Access Other Relational Databases
    • F.2.2.1 Installing DataDirect JDBC Drivers
    • F.2.2.2 Registering DataDirect Drivers in OmniPortlet
  • F.2.3 Configuring Portal Tools and Web Producers (Optional)
• F.3 Web Clipping Portlet Configuration Tips
  • F.3.1 Web Clipping Repository Configuration
    • F.3.1.1 Using Oracle Metadata Services (MDS) as the Web Clipping Repository
    • F.3.1.2 Using an Oracle Database as the Web Clipping Repository
    • F.3.1.3 Configuring Web Clipping Repository in provider.xml
    • F.3.1.4 Attributes and Child Tags of the repositoryInfo Tag
  • F.3.2 HTTP or HTTPS Proxy Configuration
  • F.3.3 Web Clipping Producer Security
    • F.3.3.1 Adding Certificates for Trusted Sites
    • F.3.3.2 Configuring Oracle Advanced Security for the Web Clipping Producer
• F.4 Setting Up a Preference Store
  • F.4.1 WSRP Producers
  • F.4.2 PDK-Java Producers
• F.5 Portlet Preference Store Migration Utilities
  • F.5.1 JPS Portlet Preference Store - PersistenceMigrationTool
  • F.5.2 PDK-Java Portlet Preference Store - Migration and Upgrade Utilities
    • F.5.2.1 Migration Mode
    • F.5.2.2 Upgrade Mode
  • F.5.3 Web Clipping Repository
  • F.5.4 Moving a Producer
• F.6 Exporting and Importing Portlet Producers at Design Time
  • F.6.1 Exporting Portlet Producers at Design Time
  • F.6.2 Importing Portlet Producers at Design Time

G Reuse of Oracle Portal Components

• G.1 Introduction to Oracle Portal Components
• G.2 Reusing Portlets
  • G.2.1 How to Reuse JSR 168 and Oracle PDK-Java Portlets
  • G.2.2 What You May Need to Know About Events
  • G.2.3 What You May Need to Know About Mobile Portlets
  • G.2.4 What You May Need to Know About the Portlet Chrome
  • G.2.5 What You May Need to Know About Personalizations and Customizations
  • G.2.6 What You May Need to Know About Oracle Portal System Resources
  • G.2.7 What You May Need to Know About Partner and External Applications
  • G.2.8 How to Use the Federated Portal Adapter to Reuse Database Portlets
  • G.2.9 What You May Need to Know About Troubleshooting the Federated Portal Adapter
    • G.2.9.1 On Registration
    • G.2.9.2 During Runtime
  • G.2.10 What You May Need to Know About Limitations of the Federated Portal Adapter
  • G.2.11 How to Reuse Oracle PDK-Java Producers from Earlier Oracle Application Server Versions
    • G.2.11.1 Consuming a Portlet from Oracle Portal
    • G.2.11.2 Redeploying PDK-Java Producers from Oracle Portal
• G.3 Reusing Items

Glossary

Index