published by Yannick on 17 March, 2011 - 09:08
The past few days I was in Utrecht for the SOA and E2.0 Partner Community forum. It was hosted by Capgemini and they presented a very nice auditorium and other rooms.
It was very nice to finally meet some guys I have mailed a lot.
We saw some impressive implementations about SOA, WebCenter/UCM, WebCenter/BPM and learned a lot about the future of those products.
published by Yannick on 1 February, 2011 - 20:08
The content presenter is a very powerful tool if your portal is content driven. The Content Presenter allows you to show content from your content server in your portal. You can use predefined templates or create your own ones.
WebCenter 11g PS3 has been a big improvement for the Content Presenter. It is easier in use and more versatile. You can easily select content based upon a folder or query, choose a template and preview the result.
published by Yannick on 29 January, 2011 - 20:33
Each domain has an adminServer which need to be started before we can start the managed servers.
This can be done by executing the startWebLogic.cmd command in following directory:
<middleware home>\user_projects\domains\webcenter_domain\bin
The admin server will now start. Be patient, this can take a few minutes depending on your system.
The server has been started when you see following line:
<WebLogicServer> <BEA-000360> <Server started in RUNNING mode>
published by Yannick on 29 January, 2011 - 20:26
In order to create a new domain, we need to run the configuration tool from weblogic. This can be found in the commons directory of the WLS:
<midleware home>\wlserver_10.3\common\bin
Execute config.exe
In the first screen select the Create a new WebLogic domain and press Next
In the next screen we need to provide the components we want to install in our domain.
Select following components:
published by Yannick on 29 January, 2011 - 20:17
Make sure you have download the latest version of WebCenter from Oracle.
Open setup.exe from the Disk1 folder.
You will get a popup were you need to specify a valid directory with a JVM.
You will first see a welcome screen. You will find some information about the prerequisites but because you al followed this howto, no need to read them :)
published by Yannick on 29 January, 2011 - 20:10
published by Yannick on 29 January, 2011 - 19:54
In this post i will give a step by step explanation on how to install WebCenter on your machine. This isn't intended for a production environment. This how-to will tell you everything you need to know on how to get WebCenter suites up and running on your local machine.
The installation process consists out of following steps:
published by Yannick on 27 January, 2011 - 11:17
WebCenter spaces has come a long way if we compare this version to the previous release. It really has matured a lot. It’s got a lot of new features, is faster, more stable,…
In this post I will try to give a brief overview of some new features.
published by Yannick on 24 January, 2011 - 20:52
When you create a navigation model or resource catalog, you often want to limit the resources based upon some conditions. You could do this be creating multiple resource catalogs or navigation models or by creating a filter that will be applied to your navigation model or resource catalog.
In this blog post I will explain how to use a filter to limit the resources in a navigation or RC.
You can download the example here.
published by Yannick on 20 January, 2011 - 14:05
I am proud to announce that we have released the WebCenter Enterprise Methodology group.
Thanks for Chris Muir and Simon Haslam for giving their support for setting up this group. Without them this would be impossible.
The WebCenter EMG has been created for discussing high level topics that go beyond the normal topics on OTN. We will try to discuss best practices, architectures, security,…
I would like to invite everybody who want to participate in this community to become a member. You only need to take a small survey before joining so we know a little bit about your motivation to join the EMG.
WebCenter EMG Information
WebCenter EMG
published by Yannick on 19 January, 2011 - 21:43
Yesterday I told about the page hierarchy which contains the pages you include in your portal. Today I will talk about the navigation model. A navigation model is a collection of resources that the users can use to navigate in the portal. We call items in a navigation model resources because that's just what they are. They are more than links. You can for example add portlets, taskflows or content from a content server to your navigation model.
published by Yannick on 18 January, 2011 - 22:19
I already pointed out that the new release of WebCenter supports multi level navigation. To me, this is one of the best additions to this release. I already had a few customers that didn't like the idea of having only a single level of pages. We looked at different workarounds but they were all difficult to implement.
When I first saw the navigation models in this release I was very pleased with it. The navigation models are very flexible. You can create them both in JDeveloper as in runtime.
published by Yannick on 16 January, 2011 - 21:18
In this release of Webcenter, we finaly have support for JSR 286 portlets. This means that we can make use of the extended portlet standard. This enable us to have portlets that can easily communicate with each other without needing to configure lots of parameters or setting partialTriggers.
JDeveloper also has a new interface to manage the portlet.xml. This contains all the features to configure JSR286 portlets.
When you create a portlet in a portlet producing application, the wizard has not changed much. We still have the 8 known steps:
published by Yannick on 15 January, 2011 - 22:34
JDeveloper 11.1.1.4 has just been released and so are the WebCenter extensions. They come with a very big change in the WebCenter framework.
In this release of webcenter you have a complete out of the box portal application when you create a new webcenter application. You can manage all the resources of your portal in runtime. This goes from pages, navigation models, resource catalogs to creating templates mash ups and so on.
In this post i will discuss some very nice new features of webcenter.
published by Yannick on 12 January, 2011 - 22:10
ADF 11g comes with a nice new feature: taskflows. By using taskflow you are making your application modular. Each taskflow has its own navigation and transactional control. Taskflow navigation control extends the regular JSF navigation control because in the regular JSF navigation control, you only can use JSF pages but in taskflows you can also navigate to methods. This gives you a lot of freedom.
published by Yannick on 10 January, 2011 - 19:29
I am proud to announce that I am working on a webcenter book. It is special for all of you administrators working with webcenter 11g.
The book will be based upon the patchset released in a few months so you will get the most up to date book. The patchset introduces a lot of cool and new features.
The book will be a cookbook which means that it is build upon recipes. Each chapter will have severall recipe with step by step instructions on how to perform administration tasks.
I will give some feedback when i finish a few chapters.
published by Yannick on 17 October, 2010 - 21:04
Integrating documents is a very important feature in a modern portal. Every big company will have severall documents and they want to display them on the portal so users can easily find the information they need.
Webcenter provides several techniques on integrating documents from the content server with webcenter.
In the paper attachd to this article you will find the techniques needed to integrate UCM on severall levels. From using basic taskflows to using the RIDC API.
published by Yannick on 8 September, 2010 - 21:00
In a modern Enterprise 2.0 portal you will find the need to let 2 portlets communicate with each other. Because you are working with webcenter, the change is big you also are creating ADF portlets instead of normal JSP portlets.
In the paper you can find the technique used to create ADF portlet and wire them together using the IPC method of Oracle.
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