7 Oracle WebCenter

This chapter describes licensing for Oracle WebCenter products. It contains the following sections:

7.1 The Oracle WebCenter Product Family

Table 7-1 describes the functionality provided by each product in the Oracle WebCenter family:

Table 7-1 Oracle WebCenter Product Family

Product Description Included Features

WebLogic Portal

Complete Java EE Portal solution for transactional Web sites and enterprise portals.

  • WebLogic Portal

Oracle WebCenter Services

A rich collection of Web 2.0 services and features, including a Java EE portal framework.

  • WebCenter Framework

  • WebCenter Web 2.0 Services, including:

    - blogs

    - wikis

    - discussion forums

  • WebCenter Ensemble

  • WebCenter Analytics

  • GroupWare Portlets for Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange

  • BPEL Worklist

  • Oracle Portlet Bridge

  • JSR 168 Container

  • Universal Content Management adapter

Oracle WebCenter Suite

Bundles Oracle's solutions for transactional Web sites, enterprise portals, team collaborative workspaces, and composite applications, providing a complete solution for customers seeking to implement these across the enterprise.

All WebCenter Services features, plus:

  • WebCenter Spaces

  • WebCenter Interaction

  • WebCenter Collaboration

  • WebLogic Portal

  • WebCenter Application Accelerator for .NET

  • WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint

  • WebCenter Web Control Consumer for .NET

  • WebCenter Interaction Container for WSRP

  • WebCenter Content Services for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, EMC Documentum, and Microsoft Files

  • WebCenter Interaction Identity Service

  • Restricted use of Content Server

  • Restricted use of Secure Enterprise Search

  • Restricted use of WebLogic Communication Services and Oracle Communications Presence

  • Restricted use of Oracle Internet Directory

WebCenter Adapter

Provides standardized access to enterprise systems.

Separately licensed adapters available for:

  • Microsoft SharePoint

  • IBM Lotus Domino

  • EMC Documentum


7.2 Management Pack for WebCenter Suite

This pack delivers comprehensive management and modeling capabilities for WebLogic Portal and WebCenter environments running in Oracle WebLogic Server as well as the underlying Java EE components. By combining contextual drill-down modeling capabilities with extensive metrics that can span containers horizontally as well as the entire vertical stack for Portal and Java EE, Management Pack for WebCenter Suite significantly reduces the cost and complexity of managing WebLogic Portal-based environments in development, testing, staging, and production environments.

For complete license details about Management Pack for WebCenter Suite, see "Oracle Middleware Enterprise Management" in Oracle Enterprise Manager Licensing Information. This document is available from the Oracle Enterprise Manager Documentation page at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/grid-control/documentation/index.html.

7.3 Restricted Use Licenses

The following restricted use licenses are available when you license WebCenter Suite:

  • Secure Enterprise Search allows you to search and index any content stored in the content repository, as well as any page delivered as part of a WebCenter Suite application or portal. If a page includes portlets, the information delivered within the portlet can be indexed as part of the search results as well. However, if you want to search and index all of the information in the backend system that supplies portlet content, you will need a full-use license of Secure Enterprise Search.

  • Universal Content Management can be used to store all content that is delivered as part of any WebCenter Suite web site, application, or portal. This includes base content management features, such as versioning and rendering different renditions of content, as well as indexing content in the repository for integration with search results within the site, portal, or application. This also includes full feature usage of the Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management (DAM), and other UCM components for content delivered via WebCenter Suite. All interactions can be done through the WebCenter Suite portal interface, a custom application, Desktop integrations, or the UCM user interface including administration activities.

  • BPEL Process Manager is restricted to running existing deployed processes and responding to requests that require user input delivered inside of a WebCenter Suite application or portal. However, the ability to define, deploy, and run new BPEL processes is allowed provided that all process endpoints exist entirely within WebCenter Suite delivered components. The modification of document BPEL processes included with the content repository can also be integrated with existing BPEL processes. The pre-built BPEL portlet and taskflows, which enable viewing of a user's worklist items from any combination of backend BPEL servers, is also included.

    Note:

    Oracle BPEL Process Manager bundles UDDI client libraries from the HP SOA Systinet Registry. Such libraries and UDDI client functionality are licensed only to the end user for the purpose of connecting to and communicating with the Oracle Service Registry.
  • Oracle WebLogic Communication Services (OWLCS) and Oracle Communications Presence (OCP) are included for development and evaluation purposes only. OWLCS can be used to set and display presence information and enable text chat functionality within WebCenter Suite applications or portals. OCP provides a central repository of real-time presence states for users over various communications networks. OWLCS and OCP are restricted to development and non-production systems only.

7.3.1 Identity Management

WebLogic Server is a prerequisite to WebCenter Suite. Customers can leverage WebLogic Server SAML support to enable Single Sign-On for WebCenter Suite applications or portals and WebCenter Suite delivered components. Oracle Internet Directory (OID) and Oracle Wallet are included for use with WebCenter Suite applications or portals and WebCenter Suite components with the following restrictions:

  • The use of OID is restricted to storing credentials and policies specific to WebCenter Suite and its delivered components.

  • The use of file-based Oracle Wallet is restricted to storing credentials specific to WebCenter Suite and its delivered components.

7.4 WebCenter Licensing with Oracle Internet Application Server

Customers who have previously licensed Oracle Internet Application Server as a pre-requisite for WebCenter Services or WebCenter Suite have the right to use WebLogic Server Basic to run WebCenter Services and WebCenter Suite as part of their existing Oracle Internet Application Server Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition license. This right is only for products within WebCenter Services and WebCenter Suite that were previously certified against Oracle Internet Application Server. WebLogic Server Basic cannot be used to run the following: WebLogic Portal, WebCenter Interaction, WebCenter Collaboration, WebCenter Ensemble, WebCenter Analytics, Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint, and Oracle WebCenter Application Accelerator for .NET. Instead, a separate WebLogic Server license is required to run these. WebLogic Server Basic is defined in Appendix A, "WebLogic Server Basic."

7.5 Oracle WebCenter Real-Time Collaboration

Oracle WebCenter Real-Time Collaboration enables users to connect and collaborate with others via web and voice conferencing, instant messaging, presence, and chat rooms. It complements other Enterprise 2.0 services available in WebCenter by connecting users who require direct interaction and immediate response.

For licensing details, see "Oracle WebCenter Licenses" in Oracle Beehive Licensing Information at the following URL:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E16671_01/bh.200/e16646/beehivelicensing.htm

7.6 Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration

Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration (WebCenter IC) is expertise location software that oversees and orchestrates collaboration in activities in real time by correlating knowledge, expertise, and social networks throughout an organization. For licensing details, see "Oracle WebCenter Licenses" in Oracle Beehive Licensing Information at the following URL:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E16671_01/bh.200/e16646/beehivelicensing.htm

7.7 Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration Connector

Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration Connectors allow Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration to index user content from third-party applications such as Microsoft Exchange. Terms are extracted from authored content and passed to Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration for adding to a user's private profile, enabling Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration to broker connections based on expertise and social networks.

For licensing details, see "Oracle WebCenter Licenses" in Oracle Beehive Licensing Information at the following URL:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E16671_01/bh.200/e16646/beehivelicensing.htm