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Pull It Together! Three Tips to Boost Developer Productivity
Standards-based development tools and components are key to productivity, especially when it comes to an interface that users interact with every day. Learn how to leverage standards in your portal development processes and your developers and end users will thank you.
1. Standards Ease Integration Pains
This critical first step allows you to weave together applications, content, and valuable middleware infrastructure like identity management.
“Standards are the key to doing that, and Oracle is aggressive in its use of standards,” says Josh Lannin, director of product management, Oracle. Oracle’s portal and user interaction products benefit from Oracle’s participation and leadership of industry standards for integrating portlets, accessing content repositories, leveraging metadata, and others.
“We know our customers are working with heterogeneous systems,” says Lannin. “We build to industry standards to increase productivity and flexibility in those environments.”
2. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Don’t reinvent the wheel. With standards, your development efforts go further, because you reuse components in many different situations.
“If a developer wants to connect wiki functionality into a set of different rich enterprise applications, he or she can write to a portlet standard like JSR 168 and WSRP, and then plug a standard wiki portlet into the same page as their enterprise portlets,” says Lannin. “They don’t have to start from scratch every time.”
Reusing standards-based components can do more than increase developer productivity. It can also streamline business processes for common tasks and reduce errors and exceptions. “Companies often have way too many processes for operations like updating customer information,” says Lannin. “An open, standards-based portal can really help with that.” Oracle’s portal offerings allow you to build a single portlet for updating customer information and then deploy it throughout the business—so a customer can access and update their own information using the exact same portlet that the customer service agent uses.”
3. Go Drag and Drop
Oracle provides portal developers with rich visual environments for developing components and business processes. Oracle JDeveloper and ADF as well as Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse and Ajax provide an interactive drag-and-drop environment.
“Oracle development environments allow you to build those rich portlets faster,” says Lannin. “They give you access to a library of components and a drag-and-drop environment that wires them together for you.” The result? Faster development cycles for IT and an enriched user experience.
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