This guide explains how to build Oracle WebCenter Portal assets, extensions to WebCenter Portal Server, and shared libraries using JDeveloper. It provides in-depth information for all of the following tasks:
How to set up and prepare your development environment
How to build and deploy WebCenter Portal assets
How to build and deploy extensions to WebCenter Portal
How to build and deploy shared libraries that can be used in WebCenter Portal
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This guide is intended for developers who provides support for Oracle WebCenter Portal. The developer is primarily responsible for developing assets (such as page templates, resource catalogs, skins, portlets, and task flows), which are published and leveraged by knowledge workers and application specialists. To develop assets, the developer works with JDeveloper and leverages one of three asset-related templates: the WebCenter Portal Asset template, the WebCenter Portlet Producer Application template, or the WebCenter Portal Server Extension template. For a complete description of this role and other WebCenter Portal personas, see Who's Who.
This guide also assumes that the audience has reviewed Oracle Fusion Middleware Developing Fusion Web Applications with 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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