Although, Amazon hides it really well, actually you can buy the latest Oracle Press – McGraw Hill books, including the WebCenter 11g Handbook, for the Kindle as well. All you need to do is select the Kindle Store in the Amazon Search drop-down list and search for WebCenter.
It’s somewhat more expensive than the paperback, but [...]

 PETER MOSKOVITS’ ORACLE WEBCENTER BLOG

In WebCenter Spaces 11g R1 Patch Set 1 we introduced a new JVM property that allows administrators to disable the default functionality which takes users to the last accessed page in WebCenter Spaces. When you make the following change, the user will be taken to the first page in their Personal Space (when in personal [...]

The other day a question was posted on the Oracle WebCenter Suite Group on LinkedIn about the minimum and recommended requirements for the WebCenter development environment.
Before considering what the actual hardware requirements are, it makes sense to quickly glance through what we mean by the development environment, what needs to be installed, and what are [...]

If you only have a few minutes to find out what WebCenter is all about, this may be for you…
A colleague here at Oracle, Claudio Lichtenthal, published a number of brief white boarding sessions on YouTube. His latest creation covers WebCenter.

Tagged: webcenter, youtube

John Sim from Bluestudios built yet another beautiful skin for WebCenter Spaces. The screen shot below takes you to his post for more details – and a personal touch…

Tagged: skin, spaces, webcenter

There’s a new Oracle By Example (OBE) available on OTN that covers the end-to-end installation and configuration steps for WebCenter Spaces. Following the “OBE traditions”, every step is illustrated with a screen shot.
Tagged: config, configuration, install, installation, spaces, webcenter

Most of our customers deploying WebCenter Spaces are interested in changing various aspects of their deployment. We have just released on OTN the updated Extending WebCenter Spaces (11.1.1.2.0) white paper (supporting files 25MB). The executive overview of the paper gives a good summary of what it’s all about:
Oracle WebCenter Spaces is a pre-built, pre-integrated, and [...]

The Avitek Sample Portal is a custom portal built using Oracle WebCenter 11g Release 1 and WebCenter Web 2.0 Services. In addition to the source of the sample, it also comes with a Developer’s Guide.
Avitek is intended for customers and partners who want to start building custom WebCenter portals quickly. If you have JDeveloper and [...]

The People Connection service is one of the most exciting features of the Patch Set 1 release. It allows you to build and manage your connections, as well as to monitor the activity stream in a snappy, intuitive UI.
Bob Fraser from the WebCenter Product Management team published a new sample on OTN demonstrating the REST [...]

Be among the first ones who attend the brand new 2-day WebCenter Training, titled: Oracle WebCenter 11g: Introduction to Custom Applications. This is a so-called Live Virtual Class (LVC), that is: you have a live instructor teaching the class, but there’s no travel required; you can attend the class remotely. Here you can enroll.
About the [...]

If you’re interested in WebCenter, chances are you’re into social networks . There’s a pretty active group of people on LinkedIn, discussing WebCenter-related issues, questions. The group has 40+ members and counting… Participants include customers, partners, as well as members of the WebCenter product team. Worth checking it out…
Tagged: group, linkedin, webcenter [...]

Getting started with WebCenter 11g, released on July 1st 2009, is quite easy. What you have to do exactly depends on the environment you work in, the bits and pieces in WebCenter that you want to make use of and the other FMW components that are part of your technology stack. Note that most of the installation steps you have to go through for WebCenter 11g are the same as for SOA Suite 11g - both involve WebLogic 11g, the Repository (Creation Utility against an 11g database) and the creation of a dedicated domain on WebLogic.

I know that not many of our WCI customers are currently using Ensemble, but I believe that that will change over time. Ensemble is becoming a very strategic product within the scope of the WebCenter Suite of products. It was originally designed as a mashup engine for WCI so that you could pull many different types of web applications into WCI as portlets or vice versa, inject WCI portlets into other external web applications as pagelets.

Along with the recent launch of Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g from Oracle came a little something extra for business users and IT.

Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g is described by the company as a modern enterprise portal platform, and aims to bring together people in organizations with the business processes and information they require.

I have had a sweet spot for Oracle WebCenter for quite some time now. As early as 2007 I already did a presentation at ODTUG on WebCenter (10g). One of my main conclusion at the time was that while the product showed a lot of potential, it was certainly not ready for prime time. After that presentation, a guy came up to me, thanked me for the presentation then told me he was a product manager for WebCenter - and agreed with most of the things I had said. That was my first encounter with Peter Moskovits.

Oracle Web Center is a suite of development tools that can be used to build web-based applications using technologies such as SOA, JSR-168, and WSRP.  The Oracle WebCenter Framework allows you integrate E-Business Suite Release 12 portlets into a custom web-based application.

As organizations continually reinvent themselves and strive for higher levels of efficiency and productivity, the demands on the information worker are constantly increasing. To meet these ever growing demands, the information worker needs a better, more productive work environment. What’s more, the work environment must go beyond the browser to include all of the desktop tools and mobile devices with which the user is familiar.