Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook

by Ostrowski, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780072264609
• ISBN10: 0072264608
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-13
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Version 10.1.4 is a major upgrade to Oracle Portal Ostrowski is in charge of the Oracle Application Server Portal practice at TUSC, a premier Oracle partner

Author Biography

Chris Ostrowski is an Oracle technologies consultant for TUSC (The Ultimate Software Consultants). He is a regular speaker at local and national Oracle user conferences and is coauthor of Oracle Application Server 10g Web Development.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Introduction
Out-of-the-Box Oracle Application Server Portal Technologies	p. 3
Logging in to OracleAS Portal for the First Time	p. 5
Getting Around in OracleAS Portal	p. 7
A Quick Tour of OracleAS Portal Pages	p. 13
The Build Tab	p. 13
The Administer Tab	p. 15
OracleAS Portal Navigator	p. 19
The Help System	p. 31
Creating an OracleAS Portal User	p. 32
Portlets	p. 44
Types of Portlets	p. 45
OracleAS Portal Content	p. 45
Content Item Types	p. 46
Built-in Navigation Types	p. 47
Declarative Development	p. 48
The OracleAS Portal Wizards	p. 49
Creating Your First OracleAS Portal Objects	p. 50
When to Use the OracleAS Portal Wizards	p. 66
OracleAS Portal Page Design	p. 66
Page Groups	p. 66
The Edit Page Window	p. 68
Adding Portlets	p. 69
Regions	p. 71
Styles	p. 74
Templates	p. 76
Navigation Pages	p. 78
Page Properties and Page Group Properties	p. 81
Exercises	p. 84
Summary	p. 85
OracleAS Portal Responsibilities within an Organization	p. 87
Skill Sets	p. 88
Developers	p. 89
Content Managers/Approvers	p. 96
Page Designers	p. 97
Administrators	p. 97
Exercises	p. 99
Summary	p. 100
Page Design and Content Management
OracleAS Portal Page Design	p. 103
Pages and Page Groups	p. 105
Page and Page Group Properties	p. 118
Page Group Properties	p. 118
Page Properties	p. 120
The Remaining Links	p. 123
Page Design	p. 124
Region Properties	p. 127
Adding Portlets to Your Pages	p. 131
Other Page Elements	p. 137
Styles, Attributes, Page Types, and Item Types	p. 139
Exercises	p. 143
Summary	p. 144
Advanced Portal Page Design	p. 145
HTML Templates	p. 148
HTML Page Skins	p. 150
HTML Content Layouts	p. 167
Exercises	p. 200
Summary	p. 201
Content Management	p. 203
OracleAS Portal Content Management Features	p. 204
Items	p. 205
Searching OracleAS Portal Content	p. 216
Advanced Search	p. 221
Page Group Attributes	p. 222
Getting Content Approved	p. 223
Working with Rejected Items	p. 236
Using Oracle Drive	p. 240
Automating Content Addition	p. 246
WebDAV	p. 246
The Content Management APIs	p. 247
Setting the Context	p. 248
Determining Page Group IDs	p. 250
Determining Page IDs	p. 251
Determining Region IDs	p. 253
Determining Item IDs	p. 255
Using the Content Management APIs	p. 255
Exercises	p. 272
Summary	p. 272
OmniPortlet and Web Clipping	p. 273
What Is OmniPortlet?	p. 274
The OmniPortlet Wizard	p. 276
Page Parameters	p. 298
Web Clipping	p. 304
Using Web Clipping	p. 304
Exercises	p. 310
Summary	p. 312
Development
Writing Portlets with Java	p. 315
Download the Portal Add-in for Oracle JDeveloper	p. 317
Install the Portal Add-in for JDeveloper	p. 318
Download the OracleAS PDK	p. 319
Understand Portlet View Modes	p. 320
Check the Installation of the Portal Add-in in JDeveloper	p. 322
Decide Which Type of Portlet to Build	p. 323
Open Standard: JSR 168	p. 325
The Oracle PDK	p. 325
Use the Wizard to Build the Portlet	p. 326
Building an Oracle PDK-Based Portlet	p. 326
Building a JSR 168 Portlet	p. 337
Add Business Logic	p. 348
Establish a Connection to an Application Server	p. 348
Deploy and Register the Portlet	p. 352
Revisiting the Add Business Logic Step	p. 358
Exercise	p. 371
Summary	p. 371
Advanced Development Topics	p. 373
Service-Oriented Architecture	p. 374
Goals of an SOA Application	p. 376
OracleAS Portal: The Face of SOA	p. 377
OracleAS Portal and SOA: The Challenges	p. 379
SOA and What It Addresses	p. 380
Where Do I Start?	p. 388
Summary	p. 390
Oracle Resources	p. 391
Administration
Site Administration and Performance Tuning	p. 395
What Is Administration?	p. 396
OracleAS Portal Administration: The Services Portlet	p. 398
Main	p. 398
Configuration	p. 399
SSO/OID	p. 400
Cache	p. 401
Mobile	p. 401
Proxy	p. 401
Search	p. 401
OracleAS Portal Administration: The Export/Import Transport Set Portlet	p. 406
OracleAS Portal Administration: The Oracle Reports Security Portlets	p. 422
OracleAS Portal Administration: The User Portlets: User, Portal User Profile, Group, Portal Group Profile	p. 424
OracleAS Portal Administration: The Portlet Repository Portlets	p. 424
OracleAS Portal Administration: The Remote Providers Portlets	p. 426
OracleAS Portal Administration: The Remote Provider Group Portlets	p. 430
OracleAS Portal Administration: The Database Subtab	p. 431
Personal Pages	p. 431
Self-Registration	p. 433
Create the Welcome Page	p. 435
Customize the Login Portlet	p. 436
Make the New Page the Welcome Page for Your Site	p. 438
Performance Tuning	p. 440
Implementing SSL	p. 448
Configuring SSL to OracleAS Single Sign-On Using the SSL Configuration Tool	p. 452
Securing OracleAS Portal Pages	p. 454
Using the Log Loader	p. 463
The OracleAS Portal Diagnostics Assistant	p. 468
Exercise	p. 471
Summary	p. 471
OracleAS Portal Users and Security	p. 473
How OracleAS Portal Handles Security	p. 474
Seeded Users	p. 476
Default Schemas	p. 477
Creating Users	p. 478
User Privileges	p. 480
The Portal User Profile	p. 484
Preferences Tab	p. 484
Privileges Tab	p. 486
Creating Groups	p. 495
Object Privileges	p. 496
Portlet Security	p. 499
Page Security	p. 504
The Root Page	p. 506
Exercise	p. 516
Summary	p. 516
Miscellaneous
Integrating Forms, Reports, and Discoverer into Portal	p. 519
Benefits of Integration	p. 521
Native Support	p. 522
Oracle Reports	p. 523
Using the Portal URL Component	p. 528
Using the Native Portal Method	p. 534
Reports Server Administration	p. 537
Oracle Forms	p. 538
Securing the Form's URL	p. 540
Oracle Discoverer	p. 547
Registering the Discoverer Portlet Provider	p. 547
Creating a Discoverer Connection in Oracle Application Server 10g	p. 550
The Edit Worksheet Portlet Defaults Wizard	p. 555
Summary	p. 559
Oracle Instant Portal	p. 561
What Is OracleAS Instant Portal?	p. 562
Why Does OracleAS Instant Portal Exist?	p. 562
Limitations	p. 563
Your First Instant Portal	p. 563
Adding Content Manually	p. 572
Adding Content with Oracle Drive	p. 573
Defining a Landing Page	p. 574
Summary	p. 575
Appendixes
Future Direction of OracleAS Portal	p. 579
OracleAS Portal Resources	p. 581
Exercise Commentary	p. 585
Index	p. 589
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