| Oracle WebCenter 11g Technology Preview 4
The 11g technology preview release of Oracle WebCenter is now available for download for Oracle customers with a MetaLink account. Technology Preview 4 provides information about new features, a tutorial and developer's guide, product demonstrations, and more. This technology preview includes WebCenter and SOA design-time functionality.
Note: This release is not feature complete: the features shown in this release are not guaranteed to be in the final production release, and the production release will include additional features that are not in the technology preview. |
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Framework
WebCenter Framework enables the rapid creation of a new generation of context-centric, composite applications. The Framework augments the JavaServer Faces (JSF) environment by providing additional components, integration, and runtime options.
Oracle WebCenter Framework breaks down the boundaries between Web-based portals and enterprise applications. In essence, the WebCenter Framework integrates capabilities historically included in portal products directly into the fabric of the JSF environment, specifically, the ability to bind portlets and customize the application at runtime. A complete, standards-based portlet development environment and business user tools support rapid creation of JSR 168-based portlets and deployment of WSRP 2.0-based portlet producers. Content is easily integrated and published using data controls built to the JCR/ JSR 170 standard. JCR adapters are provided for Oracle Content Database, Oracle Portal, and the file system, and optionally available for Documentum, Sharepoint, and Lotus. In addition, all of the framework pieces are integrated into Oracle JDeveloper and implemented as an extension, providing unified access to the components as the application is being built. |
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Composer
Oracle Composer is a browser-based platform that enables information workers and business users to extend and customize applications at runtime. The rich feature set provided by Oracle Composer enables users to tailor fit their applications to business and personal requirements.
With Oracle Composer, information workers can easily create, share, and personalize pages in the running application. Several page templates are provided out of the box to make the creation process easy and quick. After creation, users can easily modify the pages by rearranging components through drag and drop and by editing components in place as indicated by visual cues. The layered customization model of Oracle Composer separates metadata from code. This means that a company can build a single foundational application that individuals, departments, and organizations throughout the company can customize without changing the core application. Subsequently, the core application can be patched or upgraded without any loss of customizations. |
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Web 2.0 Services*
WebCenter Web 2.0 Services include a complete set of content, search, collaboration, and communication services that can be embedded directly into applications. The tight integration allows the services to be accessible in the context of the task or business flow.
Oracle WebCenter Web 2.0 Services provides a set of Web 2.0 services that are delivered as reusable, out-of-the-box components. Recognizing the requirement for users in an organization to collaborate, communicate, and share information online, Oracle has extended the number and range of services in WebCenter Release 11 to provide a complete set of leading services that are engineered to work together within a custom application. The level of integration is unique and compelling and allows the services to be accessible in the context of the task or business flow. These reusable components are available during development (JDeveloper) and at runtime (Composer) to create and extend your application. The services available in Tech Preview 4 include: Document Library (file system only), Tagging, Links, Search (within WebCenter only), and Portlets. The following WebCenter Web 2.0 Services are not available in Tech Preview 4, but will be included in Release 11: Forums, Wiki, Announcements, Presence, Tasks, and Worklists. Document Library will be a complete content management solution with Oracle Content Database Suite, and Search will include Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES). |
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Spaces*
WebCenter Spaces brings business context to individuals and groups, thus creating an effective social networking platform where business problems are easily solved and knowledge is readily shared.
Oracle WebCenter Spaces is a prebuilt application that exposes functionality from the WebCenter Framework, Services, and Composer in a configurable work environment that enables individuals and groups to work and collaborate more effectively. The application is a self-service solution for managing individual and group interactions. Spaces provides intuitive tools that allow non-technical members to come together and share information by adding pages and resources such as documents, charts, reports, portlets, business applications, Web 2.0 services, and other ADF resources or views. Spaces includes both Personal Space, which brings business context to the end user with a focus on collaboration and social networking, and Group Space, which brings together groups of users with a common objective: to resolve a business problem or share an area of interest. Spaces is not part of Technical Preview 4. |
| *Note: A more complete set of services will be available in the production release. Spaces is not part of Technology Preview 4. See the Release Notes for details. |
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| Getting Started |
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| All you need to get started with the technical preview is Oracle JDeveloper. Oracle customers with a MetaLink account should refer to Technote 565510.1 for instructions on installing Oracle WebCenter, including the WebCenter Framework and Web 2.0 services such as Tagging, Links, Composer, Portlets, Search, and Document Library. Some services (Tagging and Links, for example) also require an Oracle database. You can begin by following the steps in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Tutorial for WebCenter Developers which you can also access from Technote 565510.1. Download the tutorial sample files here. |
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| Technical Preview Demonstrations |
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Integrating a Google Gadget March 2008
This demonstration shows how you can integrate Google gadgets into your WebCenter applications. The demo adds a small map component, which accepts an address as a parameter. (6:40 minutes) |
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Consuming Web 2.0 Services in a Custom Application December 2007
This demonstration shows how to consume the Links, Tagging, and Search services in the context of a WebCenter custom application. Learn how to integrate each service in JDeveloper and then customize them at runtime. (24 minutes) |
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Portletizing a Taskflow Using the JSF Portlet Bridge December 2007
This screencast demonstrates building a task flow, using Ajax partial page rendering (PRR) to drive the information in the taskflow, portletizing the taskflow, deploying the resulting portlet, and consuming it in another WebCenter application. The JSF Portlet Bridge allows you to take an existing WebCenter application and deploy it as a standards-based portlet that can be directly consumed in any enterprise application that supports the WSRP standard.
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| To view more Release 11 demos, visit the Release 11 Demonstrations page. |
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| To find out more about what's coming in Release 11, read the Oracle WebCenter Statement of Direction. |
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Combined JDeveloper, WebCenter, and SOA Technology Preview 4 |
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See Technote 565510.1 on MetaLink for WebCenter installation instructions |
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