Oracle Application Server 10g Corporate Portal

Overview
•Browser-based environment for building, deploying, and maintaining enterprise portals
•Secure and manageable framework
•Organized and personalized views
•Self-service Web publishing
•Manageable deployment architecture

Oracle Application Server Components
•Oracle Internet Directory (OID)
•OracleAS Portal (OC4J)
•OracleAS Wireless
•OracleAS Web Cache
•OracleAS Personalization
•OracleAS Integration

Grid Computing

Architecture that pools large numbers of servers and storage into a less expensive, flexible, on-demand computing resource for all enterprise needs

- Standardize low cost components

- Consolidate shared resources

- Automate management operations

OracleAS 10g portal Solution
•Content management (Classify content, Navigate and access content; Route content for review and approval)
•Content display (Create, organize, and manage pages; Build and customize dynamic portlets
•Content integration (integrate applications and disparate data by using built-in functionality, including Web Clipplig, OmmiPortlet, and Portlet Builder

Major User Roles in OracleAS Portal

- Page designers

- Content contributors and content managers
- Portlet developers

- Portal administrator

Portal Page Modes

•Page group – Root page; Subpages
•View mode; Graphical mode; Layout mode; List mode

Adding Content to Portal
Item
•An item is a basic unit of content on a portal page.
•Two kinds –
•Content item type
•Navigation item type

Content item types
•File and Simple File
•Simple Image
•Image and Simple Image Map
•PL/SQL and Simple PL/SQL
•Prge Link and Simple Page Link
•Text and Simple Text
•URL and Simple URL
•Zip File

Item-Related Features
•Versioning
•Item-level security
•Document control
•Publishing dates
•Expiry dates
•Approvals

Adding Items

Accessing the Document Library by Using a WebDAV Client

With a WebDAV client, you can:

- Move content, files, and folders between your desktop and the document library

- Open, edit, and save file type items "in place" by using desktop application

Content Metadata
•Data about the content in the document library
•Set explicitly or implicitly
•Made up of three main components (Attributes; Categories; Perspectives)

Classifying Content in OracleAS Portal
•Category – A predefined attribute that is used to group or classify pages, items, and portlets

Creating Category

•Perspective – A cross-category grouping of items and pages (attributes)

- Further classify content across categories

- Enable users to view related content classified in different categories

Creating Perspectives

Implementing Custom Types

Custom Types
•Custom types are unique types you create to extende the standard type definitions provided by OracleAS Protal.
•Custom attributes – User-defined attributes based on predefined data types created to store additional info about an item. (used in definition of custom item types and page types)
•Custom item types
•Custom page types
•[Item Type]n-n[Attribute]n-n[page type]

Creating Custom Item Types

Approval Process

A Series of one or more approval routing steps

- Each step must have one or more approvers

- Routing to approvers can be in serial or in parallel

Portal Page

•OracleAS Protal object that contains portlets and items.
•A portal page is the face of the portal – that which the user interacts with to access informatipn and applications. The layout of a portal page is defined through regions
•A portal page combines the features of a directory folder and a browser page.Like a folder, a page can exist within a hierarchy of pages and can contain content.

Page Group

•A page group is a hierarchical collection of pages for which common attributes and mechanisms can be established to govern the behavior of the pages it contains.
•Consider – (Administering page groups; Managing content metadata; managing content presentation; Copying and moving content)
•Region – rectanglar area on a page used to define the page layout (Types: Item; Portlet; Sub-Page Links; Undefined)

Shared Objects

•Layout and appearance (Styles; Templates; Navigation pages)
•Content attribution (Custom page types; Custom item types; Custom attributes; Perspectives; Categories

Style

•Set of values and parameters that controls the colors and fonts that are used by pages and regions within a page

Page template
•An object that enforces an standard layout and appearance for multiple pages

Navigation Items

•Portal Smart Link

•Login/Logout Link

•Basic Search Box

•List of Objects

•Portal Smart Text

•Object Map Link

•Page Path

•Page Function

Page parameters

•Synchronize portlets residing on a page

•Enable the reuse of portlets on multiple pages with no additional coding

•Provide users the means to customize pages based on their input values

Portlet parameters

•Enable the portlet developer to declare a public data input interface for the page designer to use

•Give the page designer control over the input data to the portlet

Integrating Page and Portlet Parameters

Controlling Access to Page Groups

Controlling Access to Pages

Item-Level Privileges

•Manage

•Edit

•View

Accessing Portal Objects by Using Direct Access URLs

Web Clippling

A piece of existing Web content that can be repurposed in other Web pages, particularly portals.

OmniPortlet

A feature of Oracle AS Portal that enables you to quickly and easily publish data from various data sources and render the result in a variety of formats.

Supported data sources

•Spreadsheet

•SQL

•XML

•Web Service

•Web Page

Supported Data formates

•Tabular

•Chart

•News layout

•Bulleted list

•Form

Data-Driven Portlets (DB, SQL etc)

OracleAS Portal Forms

•Forms based on tables and views

•Master-detail forms based on two tables or views

•Forms based on stored procedures

OracleAS Poprtal Reports

Publishing Business Intelligence on a Portal Page

OrcleAS Discoverer provides two types of portlets

•List of Database Workbooks portlet: Contains the names and links to Discoverer workbooks

•Worksheets portlet: Enables you to place actual worksheetcontent on the portal page

Privileges

- Global privileges

- Objectr-level Privileges

- The corresponding global privilege overrides an object-level privilege