Preface

This guide describes how to use the Oracle WebCenter Analytics APIs in custom applications.

This guide is organized as follows:

Oracle WebCenter Analytics OpenUsage API

You can use the Oracle WebCenter Analytics OpenUsage API to raise Oracle WebCenter Analytics events from custom portlets and applications and store them in the Oracle WebCenter Analytics database. This tutorial presents an introduction to OpenUsage and provides basic use cases and a simplified example. The sample application includes examples of calling the OpenUsage Java API and using the OpenUsage event tag.

Defining An Event Model describes how to define the information you want Oracle WebCenter Analytics to track and provides real world examples.
Registering and Configuring Events in Oracle WebCenter Analytics Administration explains how to register custom events in Oracle WebCenter Analytics Administration so they will be recognized by the Oracle WebCenter Analytics Collector Service.
Raising Oracle WebCenter Analytics Events from a Custom Application describes how to use OpenUsage tags or the OpenUsage Java API to raise events in response to user actions.
Configuring and Launching Oracle WebCenter Analytics provides a simplified explanation of how to configure Oracle WebCenter Analytics to store events from custom applications.
Querying Oracle WebCenter Analytics and Displaying Statistics describes how to retrieve data from the Oracle WebCenter Analytics database for custom reports.

Oracle WebCenter Analytics Query API

This section describes how to use the Oracle WebCenter Analytics Query API to access the Oracle WebCenter Analytics database in custom applications.

Using the Oracle WebCenter Analytics Query API illustrates the basics of using the Query API through a series of example queries.
The Anatomy of the Oracle WebCenter Analytics Query API describes the Query API service and provides a detailed reference for creating SOAP requests for the Query API service and processing the SOAP responses.
Events and Dimensions is a reference of the events and dimensions that are defined for Oracle WebCenter Interaction products.
Generating and Using a Query API Client describes how to generate a Java Query API client using JAX-WS.

Audience

This document is intended for software developers responsible for creating external applications that need to utilize data from Oracle WebCenter Analytics. The audience of this documentation is assumed to be proficient in developing applications that use SOAP web services.

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Preface

Audience

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