Build Standards-Based Portlets Against a Variety of Sources

Welcome

Welcome to Oracle WebCenter Portal

Oracle WebCenter

Oracle WebCenter Portal is the set of components that you use to create social applications, enterprise portals, collaborative communities, composite applications, and Internet/intranet web sites.

Oracle Application Development Framework

Oracle ADF provides the common development framework for all Oracle Fusion Middleware user interfaces and Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle WebCenter Portal: Framework

Oracle WebCenter Portal: Framework is a modern portal framework that speeds delivery of portals and websites and extends the capabilities of traditional enterprise portals.

Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces is an out-of-the-box application that brings you the latest technology in terms of social networking, communication, collaboration, and personal productivity with no development effort.

Mashups and Composite Applications

Combine existing enterprise functions into a new application.

Composer in WebCenter Portal

Composer in WebCenter Portal enables runtime customization and personalization of JSF applications created with Oracle WebCenter Portal: Framework.

WebCenter Portal: Services

WebCenter Portal: Services provide a variety of Web 2.0 content management, search, collaboration, and communication services to extend the functionality of your applications and enrich the end user experience.

Other Key WebCenter Portal Features

Other key WebCenter Portal features include the Oracle WebCenter Portal's Portlet Producer, Oracle WebCenter Portal's Pagelet Producer, and Personalization for WebCenter Portal.

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Oracle WebCenter Portal Documentation

Go to the Oracle WebCenter Portal documentation library

Oracle WebCenter Portal: Framework includes the following features that you can use to create standards-based portlets against a variety of data sources:

Portlet Creation Wizards: Assist in building JSR 286 and PDK-Java (Portlet Development Framework for Oracle Portal) portlets quickly and easily.
JSR 286 Portlets: Create standardized pluggable portal components that are independent of the actual portal server for which they are written. This means that, you can reuse portlets seamlessly between portals without changing any code.

When deploying JSR 286 portlets to WebCenter Portal's portlet container, they are exposed through Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), which is a Web services standard that enables you to plug and play visual, user-facing Web services with portals or other intermediary Web applications. This standard enables you to consume WSRP 1.0 and 2.0-compliant portlets so that customers can share them between different Oracle portal products such as Oracle WebLogic Portal, Oracle Portal, and Oracle WebCenter Interaction, as well as non-Oracle standards-based portals. Using this technology, you can surface both standard Java Server Faces (JSF) and Oracle ADF Faces (rich client) components as portlets anywhere in your enterprise.
OmniPortlet: Enables business users to easily publish data from various data sources using a variety of layouts, without needing to write any code. Using a wizard-based approach, business users can quickly produce new mashups from all of the standard feeds that developers produce. Developers can easily build AJAX-based user interfaces and add them to the wizard for business users to select.

OmniPortlet can be based on almost any kind of data source, such as a Web service, a SQL database, a spreadsheet that contains character-separated values, XML, and even application data from an existing Web page. Out-of-the-box, OmniPortlet provides the most common layouts for portlets: tabular, chart, HTML, parameter form, news, bulleted list, and form. Using OmniPortlet, you can also enable your users to include Google gadgets or RSS feeds on their pages to include any type of Internet content within the context of their portal.
Web Clipping: Includes mashup tools that enable clipping some or all of a Web page and exposing it within an Oracle WebCenter Portal application. Developers can use Web Clipping Studio to clip the content, expose the content within the Web Clipping portlet, and also reuse a wide range of Web content, including pages written with HTML, JavaScript, applets, and plug-in enabled content, retrieved through form submission. Oracle WebCenter Ensemble can be used with WebCenter Portal to add portlets, integrate content, and create lightweight mashups.