Oracle WebLogic Portal 10g R3: Develop Enterprise Portals

An enterprise portal promotes a standardized process and infrastructure for designing, developing, deploying, and accessing Web functionality throughout an entire organization. Oracle WebLogic Portal provides an infrastructure and development environment that allows Web applications to be easily aggregated into a single, unified interface capable of supporting multiple audiences.

In this course, students expand upon their basic Java EE Web application knowledge and gain experience with portal and portlet application frameworks, as well as content management and personalization solutions. Students also learn how to apply service-oriented principles to an enterprise Web architecture using the federation technology of Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP).

Note: If more than one pre-requisite course is given for this course, the student need only attend one of them. Either will satisfy the requirement. The requirement may also be satisfied with equivalent, on-the-job experience. Learn To:

• Transform different kinds of applications into portlets for use within your portal
• Create applications that may be transformed into portlets
• Customize the default appearance and behavior of a portal application
• Build federated portals using WSRP producers and consumers
• Organize, publish, and display information by using a Content Management System (CMS)
• Create enterprise portal applications

Audience

• Application Developers
• Developer
• J2EE Developer
• Java Developer
• Portal Developer
• Project Manager
• SOA Architect

Course Topics Getting Started with WebLogic Portal

• Portals and the Enterprise
• Product Overview
• Product Installation
• WebLogic Portal Domains
• Starting and Stopping Servers

Eclipse for WebLogic

• Eclipse Overview
• Web Tools Platform Overview
• Eclipse for WebLogic Overview
• Project Facets
• Creating Portal Projects for a Portal Application

Portal Design and Development

• Portals, Books, and Pages
• Portlets
• Portlet Types
• Portlet Wizard

Look and Feel Development

• Skeletons
• Shells
• Skins
• Genes and Chromosomes
• Page Layouts
• Themes

NetUI Portlet Development

• Apache Beehive (NetUI)
• Page Flows
• Actions and Forwards
• Java Controls
• NetUI JSP Tags
• NetUI Forms and Form Beans
• NetUI Validation
• Internationalization

JSF Portlet Development

• JSF Overview
• Creating JSF Applications with Eclipse for WebLogic
• JSF Managed Beans
• JSF Navigation
• JSF Tags and Forms
• JSF Validation
• JSF Portlets

Advanced Portlet Topics

• Portlet Preferences
• Inter-portlet Communication
• Event Handlers and Actions
• Portal Framework APIs
• Backing Files
• Browser and Web Clipper Portlets
• Asynchronous Portals
• DISC and REST

Federated Portal Development

• Web Service Fundamentals
• Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Architecture
• WSRP Producers
• WSRP Consumers
• Proxy Books, Pages, and Portlets

Content Management

• Content Management Concepts
• Content Types and Properties
• Creating Content
• Content Workflows
• Content Placeholders
• Content Selectors
• Content JSP Tags

Personalization and Advanced Content Management

• Content Personalization
• User Profiles
• User Segments and Personalized Placeholders and Selectors
• Campaigns
• Content Presenter Portlet
• Third Party Content Management System (CMS) Integration
• Content Management APIs
• REST APIs for CMS and User Profiles

WebLogic Portal Administration

• Portal Project Lifecycle
• Desktop Administration
• Portal Library Synchronization
• Visitor Roles and Entitlements
• Dynamic Visitor Tools

Course Objectives

• Describe the capabilities of Eclipse for WebLogic (Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse)
• Create portal desktops and portlets
• Customize the appearance of a portal desktop by using skins, skeletons, shells, and page layouts
• Create either page flow (NetUI) or JSF applications that can be used as portlets
• Create backing file classes for portal components
• Define URL and Web Clipper portlets
• Configure a portal desktop to run asynchronously
• Publish portal books, pages, and portlets for remote consumption
• Consume remote portal books, pages, and portlets in a federated portal
• Define the terms content repository, content type, content property, content node, and library services
• Create content types and content using WebLogic Portal's built-in content management system
• Rapidly display content in a portal using content placeholders and content selectors
• Personalize a portal application by using content selectors, content placeholders, events and campaigns
• Access and modify the portal framework in code by using the WebLogic Portal APIs
• Secure portal components with roles and entitlements
• Enable the Dynamic Visitor Tools to allow authenticated users to customize their portal desktops