Developing Oracle Weblogic 10.3 Portal Applications

Length: 4 days
CourseID: WLS10gPortal

Prerequisites:

This course is intended for Java developers who need to develop portal applications using Weblogic portal. Java programming with the core J2EE APIs is essential.

Overview:

This course provides hands-on experience building enterprise portal applications using Weblogic Portal and Eclipse. This training prepares you to immediately contribute to sophisticated portal development projects based on the a instrustry leading Oracle Weblogic platform.

Objectives:

Describe the capabilities of Workshop's Eclipse plug-ins

Define portal desktops and portlets

Customize the appearance of a portal using skins, skeletons, and shells

Create page flow and actions in Workshop

Use NetUI tags, including repeaters and grid

Create backing file classes for portal components

Configure a portlet or desktop to run asynchronously

Use Web clipper portlets

Federate portal books, pages, and portlets between producers and consumers

Customize WSRP communication

Define the terms repository, type, property, node, and library services

Rapidly display content in a portal using placeholders and selectors

Personalize a portal application using content selectors, events and campaigns

Create and access content programmatically

Secure portal components with roles and entitlements

Customize a user's portal with the visitor tools

Chapters:

Course Introduction

Portals and the Enterprise	JSR Portal APIs
Feature Overview	Portal Versions
Product Installation	Creating a Portal Domain
Starting and Stopping Servers

Development Fundamentals

Eclipse Java Tools Overview	Eclipse Web Tools Overview
Eclipse Extension options	WebLogic Shared Libraries
Ear and Jar Projects	Project Facets

Portal Design and Development

Portal Projects	Portals, Books, and Pages
Portlet Types	Portlet Wizard

Look and Feel Development

Skeletons	Shells
Skins	Chromosomes
Layouts	Themes

NetUI Portlet Development

Apache Beehive	Page Flow Perspective
Actions and Forwards	NetUI JSP Tags
Form Beans	Validation Rules
Internationalization

Advanced Portlet Development

JSF and WebLogic Portal	Portlet Preferences
Portlet Event Handlers	Backing Files
Asynchronous Portals	Web Clipper Portlet
Portlet Publishing

Federated Portal Development

Web Service Fundamentals	WSRP Architecture
Consumer Registration	Service Registry Integration
Proxy Portlet, Pages and Books	WSRP Interceptors

Content Management

Content Management Architecture	Content Types and Properties
WebDAV CMS Integration	Content Workflows
Content Placeholders	Content Selectors
Content JSP Tags

Advanced Content Management

Content Management APIs	Content Personalization
Campaigns	Content Presenter Portlet
Content Display Templates	Content SPI Overview
User Profiles

Administration Fundamentals

WebLogic Portal Tools Overview	Desktop Administration
Visitor Roles and Entitlements	Desktop Customization
Visitor Tools