WebCenter Portal tagged posts

April 30, 2016 Posted in Blogs

I had engagement to setup Oracle WebCenter Portal and Content for a public sector client before. It took a few days to complete. The procedure to setup enterprise level application is not always smooth. Usually you get fairly complete installation guide, but you could get lost very easily because of two many dependencies in those documents.

In order to make everybody’s life easier, I write down below installation steps for Oracle WebCenter Content 11gR2. With this guidance, you could finish it in a cozy afternoon, then enjoy the sunset at beach park.

1. Download software;
   1. VMware WS 12.0.1 Player for Linux 64bit (free) or Virtual Box 5.0.8 (free);
   2. Oracle Database 11g Express (free);
   3. Oracle Fusion Middleware RCU (Repository Creation Utility) 11g (11.1.1.1.9.0) for Linux x86-64 (561M);

January 31, 2016 Posted in Blogs

Prerequisites: Oracle WebCenter Content, UCM, WebCenter Portal, RIDC

When we do large portal site development, we usually store enterprise content and images in content repository. Content repository offers library services, content check-in / out and versioning, etc., which allows content more manageable and traceable.

A common use case is to present images that store in content repository in portal page directly. Let’s see how we do this under Oracle WebCenter Content and Portal environment.

The idea is to build up a HashMap which holds key-value pairs docName-docURL. When portal page renders, it references to the specific docName key defined in the image tag and loads the image based on the value of docURL from content repository...

May 28, 2015 Posted in Blogs

Prerequisites: Enterprise Architecture, Oracle WebCenter Portal, Content, SOA, SOFEA, ADF

Recently I built up a PowerPoint presentation for a potential client. This client has Oracle Fusion Middleware in place and starts their digital strategies in order to improve their online services.

This presentation starts from introducing enterprise architecture, methodologies and frameworks, walks through enterprise architecture domains, discusses WebCenter portal application integration, application and site migration plan, summarizes ADF project best practices.

This presentation sums up my many years experiences and best practices on ADF development, explains profound enterprise architecture design in intuitive way, highlights numerous key points in implementations, from data architecture, applic...