Part II

Development

Part II contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 3, "Adding Groups with JSP Tags and Controls"

• Chapter 4, "Adding and Updating Users with JSP Tags and Controls"

• Chapter 5, "Creating and Updating User Profiles"

• Chapter 6, "Configuring a UUP"

• Chapter 7, "Setting Up Anonymous User Tracking"

This section contains instructions for developers on how to create JSP tags and controls that provide the capability to add users or let users add themselves to your portal. Developers can also create groups and subgroups, add user profiles and properties, track anonymous users, and set up a UUP to integrate with other external user stores.The decisions you made during the Architecture phase shape what you do in the Development phase. If you decided to use group profiles, then users that you add to a group in the Development phase can inherit the group property values. The Development phase allows you to create user profiles to gather user information and then edit that information later (if the user store has write access). When you finish the Development phase you can proceed to the Staging phase. Consider setting up a common development environment for the Development phase and the Staging phase. You can use the Staging phase as a test environment to add users and groups to test the functionality you created in the Development phase. You might move iteratively between these two phases, developing and then testing what you created. The users and groups you add in the staging environment might be different than the users and groups you use in your production system. If you have moved on to the Production phase and then go back to make changes that affect the Development phase, you must redeploy your portal application in order to view your changes.

For a detailed description of the Development phase of the portal life cycle, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Overview for Oracle WebLogic Portal.