1 Introduction

This guide provides guidance, best practices, and tips to developers for setting up, using, and increasing productivity when using WebLogic Portal. It is organized in roughly the way you would develop a portal application.

The information in this guide shows one way of accomplishing creating a portal. Because of WebLogic Portal's versatility, you can accomplish the same thing in other ways. This guide provides a minimal amount of step-by-step instructions—just enough to get you started and not waste your time with elementary use of the product. To fill in the details, each section provides references to the relevant documentation.

If you are starting from scratch, start here:

Chapter 2 – Organizing and getting your project set up.
Chapter 3 – Creating projects for your portal EAR, WAR, and other objects.
Chapter 4 – Using Eclipse Team plug-ins for interacting with source control to share projects with your development and quality assurance teams.

If someone has already created the project, start here:

Chapter 5 – Starting from already existing projects.
Chapter 6 – Creating a domain and set it up to run from Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE).
Chapter 8 – Sharing artifacts, such as content management nodes, desktops, entitlements, and roles.
Chapter 7 – Controlling your server and deploying your application.
Chapter 9 – Tips on organizing your web applications.
Chapter 10 – Tips for being more productive.
Chapter 11 – Tweaking your server and domain environment.
Chapter 12 – Notes on how Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse deploys your application.