Foundations of ATG Application Development Rel 10.1.2

The ATG platform supports powerful and easy-to-use features that every ATG developer needs to master. This Foundations of ATG Platform Development Rel 10.1.2 course teaches web solution developers the essential background skills you need to start building applications using the ATG platform.

Learn To:

• Use Nucleus to manage the scope, initialization, configuration and life-cycle of JavaBean components.
• Create dynamic pages with the JSP and ATG DSP tag library.
• Use the ATG form handling infrastructure.
• Use out-of-the-box Dynamo Servlet Beans to provide a tight integration between pages and the back-end infrastructure.
• Access data using ATG Repositories.
• Extend the User Profile which supports persistent information about each web site visitor.
• Access nucleus components from a web application.
• Discuss the different tags in the ATG DSP tag library that can be used to access your Nucleus components.
• Process forms using the powerful out-of-the-box form handlers
• Define customized user profile templates
• Configure and use ATG Nucleus components

Explore ATG Core Concepts

Investing in this course will teach you how to create an ATG Module in Eclipse using the ATG plugins. You will also learn about the structure of an ATG application, while creating and deploying an ATG application to a WebLogic Server instance.

Understand Nucleus Components

You will also learn what Nucleus is and how to create Nucleus components. Expert Oracle instructors will help you explore the different scoping options for Nucleus components and how that affects their usage. Furthermore, you'll learn how to monitor your active Nucleus components from the Administration Console.

Become Familiar with Repositories

This course will demonstrate how and why repositories are the backbone of the ATG Data Anywhere Architecture. You will learn how to access repositories by using the ATG DSP tag library; you'll also get the chance to configure a repository to access a SQL database. Finally, you'll learn how to use Repository Form Handlers to either retrieve or set values contained within a repository.

User Profile

At the core of any commerce experience is a user profile. This course will teach you about the information contained in a user's profile and how to extend the existing user profile to add properties. This hands-on training will also prepare you for further study of ATG’s full-featured Commerce, Content Administration and Scenario Personalization SM capabilities.

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Audience

• Java Developer
• System Administrator
• Technical Consultant
• Functional Implementer

Course Topics Getting Started

• Overview of ATG products and technology
• Core concepts
• ATG developer tools
• ATG file organization
• ATG Application Module assembly and deployment

Using Components

• Nucleus components
• Properties files
• Configuration path layering
• Component scope
• Application logging

Dynamic Pages

• JavaServer page (JSP) basics
• The ATG tag library (DSP)
• Component access
• Page parameters and fragments
• Dynamo Servlet Beans (“Droplets”)
• Nested DSP tag restrictions

Using Repositories

• ATG Data Anywhere Architecture overview
• Repository architecture
• Using repositories: repository servlet be
• Querying a repository

Configuring SQL Repositories

• Item descriptors
• Repository definition files
• Item descriptors
• Item properties
• Multi-value properties
• Item descriptor inheritance
• Sub-typing
• Operational tags

Using Repository Form Handlers

• ATG forms and form handlers
• Configuring repository form handlers
• Accessing dynamic bean properties (DSP form tags)
• Multi-value form input
• Submission handler methods
• Page redirection
• Error handling
• Search form handlers

Extending the Profile Repository

• Profile properties
• Profile repository overview
• Adding profile properties
• Linking to other repository items
• Profile form handlers

Course Objectives

• Implement JavaServer pages that use the specialized tags and servlets provided by ATG
• Process forms using the powerful out-of-the-box form handlers
• Define customized user profile templates
• Configure and use ATG Nucleus components
• Configure and access data in a SQL database using ATG Repositories