Preface

This guide explains how to build portal applications using WebCenter Portal: Framework and provides in-depth information for all of the following tasks:

• How to set up and prepare your development environment for portal development, including iterative and round-trip development.

• How to plan, build, deploy, and manage a Framework application.

• How to secure, administer, monitor, and maintain a Framework application and all of its associated components.

• How to develop custom navigation user interfaces for a portal.

• How to prepare an application for, configure, and integrate Oracle WebCenter Portal services.

• How to integrate content into a Framework application.

• How to deliver personalized content to a Framework application.

• How to plan, build, deploy, and manage portlets for a Framework application.

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Audience

This guide assumes the audience has already read and performed the steps in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Tutorial for Oracle WebCenter Portal Developers.

This manual is written for all of the following developers:

• The developer who wants to build a WebCenter Portal: Framework application or integrate Oracle WebCenter Portal functionality to their application.

• The component developer, who wants to build portlets from Oracle WebCenter Portal services.

This guide also assumes that the audience has already read the Oracle Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework and is familiar with the following technologies:

• Java

• Oracle JDeveloper

• JavaServer Faces

• Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) (purpose, basic architecture, basic development skills)

• Oracle ADF Faces components

• Oracle WebLogic Server

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6.2) documentation set or on Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html.

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Tutorial for Oracle WebCenter Portal Developers

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Tutorial for Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Error Messages Reference

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework

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