Vince Casarez

If you have a WebCenter Spaces deployment (or are thinking about getting one), you should definitely check out the free WebCenter Spaces iPhone App, that allows you to access your activity stream, your contacts, all  your Spaces along with the documents, discussion forums, lists, space members, and more. And from now on – call me [...]

In the WebCenter world, portlets are accessed through WSRP, which makes debugging a challenging a little. Alexander Rudat has a step-by-step post, describing how to debug a remote portlet. The example he uses is actually a portlet built with ADF, and “portletized” through the JSF Portlet Bridge.

OmniPortlet was originally built for Oracle Portal, allowing page designers to visualize various types of data sources in a declarative manner in the browser, without using an IDE. The two simple steps of defining an OmniPortlet in-place are: selecting and specifying your data source (XML, SQL, CSV, Web service, etc.), and applying the visualization/view on [...]

When you install WebCenter Spaces, in addition to the admin server, you end up with three WebLogic managed servers: WLS_Spaces: hosts WebCenter Spaces WLS_Portlet: hosts standards-based and PDK-Java portlets WLS_Services: hosts the WebCenter social computing services One of beauties of the flexible architecture of the Fusion Middleware is that you can easily decouple any of [...]

Jake Kuramoto has an excellent post on the new dress our internal WebCenter Spaces deployment got this week. [..] we operated as a WebCenter customer would, extending the product, using its APIs, and pushing the limits of what the product can do. This provided valuable insight into the customer experience that has been rolled into [...]

With new versions and updates of the JDev/ADF and WebCenter stack, I get the question very often: how can I patch my development environment to get to the latest and greatest version? The answer has been consistent: we don’t patch JDeveloper in-place. You need to download the latest version of JDeveloper (be sure to select [...]

As part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g R1 Patch Set 2 (11.1.1.3) a new WebCenter patch set is available for download as well. This release has a couple of new features and a large number of bug fixes. New features include: Microsoft Office Integration: Oracle WebCenter integrates with the Microsoft Office shared document management [...]

Accenture created a youtube video, titled: Accenture and the Next Generation Workplace. In this short infomercial Royce Bell, CEO of Accenture Information Management Services describes how companies can benefit from deploying Enterprise 2.0 concepts.
It has definitely been a game changer for us at Oracle, using E20 in our day-to-day activities.

Tagged: e20, enterprise 2.0, webcenter, [...]

Martin Deh from the Oracle Fusion Middleware “A-Team” published ( OTN account needed) a very compelling Polling sample.
The sample contains two task flows: a “client” (poll taker) and an “admin” console.  Currently the task flows implement the following features:

Ability to define and modify Poll Questions and Poll Choices
Ability to provide a fixed number of responses [...]

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

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

Oracle WebCenter 11g is designed to facilitate the development of modern Portals & Business Applications with significant innovations in the following five important ways:

Since an essential element of modern Portals and Business Applications is that they are designed to be evolved by Business Users after they have been built, a critical part of the software infrastructure for Business Applications is that it must make it easy for users to get the information they need and to work with others to make the necessary changes to business applications and processes. Traditionally organizations have used Enterprise Portals for this purpose but Portals, however, require new software infrastructure facilities to meet these new requirements:

I've seen a set of posts recently where users are trying to come up with an easy way to describe WebCenter Suite (and more specifically WebCenter Framework & Spaces), how it can be used, and different customer use cases. So I'll provide a series of posts starting at the top level and then drilling down to each of these other areas. Here goes...

I want to first start with Oracle's overall vision and direction around Fusion Middleware 11g to set the context for Oracle WebCenter, User Interaction, and Portals.

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 [...]

Don't get me wrong, I think for connecting with friends, family, and old school chums, there's nothing better today. But when it comes to providing employees or partners within your company, do you really want them checking out your latest family vacation pictures?

There are several benefits of leveraging Oracle WebCenter Framework (WebCenter Services or WebCenter Suite) with Oracle ADF.

While it is true that WebCenter Framework uses ADF, WebCenter brings several additional capabilities that are extremely important for Application Customers.

1. Web 2.0 Services: More and more application customers are asking for services like Wiki, Discussions, Internet Messaging, VOIP, etc to be surfaced in context with the task that they are performing.

Towards the beginning of July, Forrester reviewed the new WebCenter 11g Suite. The title of the report is: Oracle WebCenter Jumps Into The Information Workplace Fray. It's a very good review of where the current product leads, some of the integrations across Fusion Middleware, and a peak at general directions. Overall, a very good report. I highly recommend it.

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.