Resource Catalog

Resource catalogs are portal assets that expose components and connections that you can add to a portal. You can use a resource catalog to populate pages, page templates, page styles, and task flows. The items listed in a resource catalog are collectively referred to as resources.

The resource catalog available to you as you edit a page, page template, page style, or task flow is established by the portal administration settings, and may be a built-in resource catalog or a custom resource catalog.

WebCenter Portal includes three built-in resource catalogs:

• Default Portal Catalog

• Default Home Portal Catalog

• Default Page Template Catalog

The Resource Registry is a central repository of all the resources available to WebCenter Portal. It contains all the resources that you can add to custom resource catalogs. In addition to including the built-in resources, the Resource Registry is also updated dynamically to include new resources, such as task flows, application integration components and portlets when they are created in WebCenter Portal or deployed as shared libraries from Oracle JDeveloper. As a result, a resource that is created and published in WebCenter Portal is available for consumption right away.

For a description of the resources that may be available to you in the current resource catalog, see About the Built-in Resource Catalogs and About the Resource Registry.