Using Dynamic Converter on demand with RIDC Client

Goal

Using Dynamic Converter with XML und XSLT to convert parts of an XML-File on demand controlled by the client.

Environment

WebCenter Content 11.1.1.7
XML und XSLT Files
Java Client using RIDC

Add application/xml as Config Conversion Formats

Upload XSL

Define Dynamic Conversion Rule 

To add a new rule you must provide a criteria. 

Dynamic Converter Samples

XML and XSLT Samples could be download from OTN. 

Java Client

More Information

Oracle® Fusion Middleware Services Reference Guide for Oracle Universal Content Management

4.5.3 GET_DYNAMIC_CONVERSION

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/doc.1111/e11011/c05_core.htm#BABIBFBA

WCP (11.1.1.1.8) Using Navigation Model with Content Query

Goal

Using Content Query with Navigation Model in WebCenter Portal and specify your own content presenter template online.

Environment

WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.8
(Sub-)Portal created with the Portal Template
Some Documents to Display  in a Folder

How to get the FolderID for the CMIS Query ?

Add a CMIS Query to the Navigation Model

CMIS Query with the correct FolderID

IN_TREE - Parameter:

     ucmserver - Content Server Connection

     IDC:Folder/{dCollectionID}

Define our own Content Presenter Template on the Navigation Page

Add a Parameter:

templateView - oracle.webcenter.content.templates.default.detail

The Name of the templateView could be found in the Content Presenter Assets. Select the Asset and show the properties. You get the following informationen:

The view-id is the Parameter you are looking for and by the way no JDeveloper-WebCenter-Portal-Round-Trip-Development is needed !  

How to detect as UCM Greenhorn the right Content Type Property Names for the Content Presenter

Rule #1

Build-In-Property begin always with d + Attribute in CamelCase

Sample: WebExtension = dWebExtension

Rule #2

Custom-Property begin always with x + Name of the Information Field from Configuration Manager [in CamelCase]

Sample: Comments = xComments

If you have Oracle Database Background and the development machine is yours, you can try following select statement to bring this information into you JDeveloper. 

select column_name,data_type from dba_tab_columnswhere table_name = 'REVISIONS' or table_name='DOCMETA'order by column_name;

Content Presenter Template

Additional Documentation

27.3.6 Using EL Expressions to Retrieve Content Item Information

27.3.7 Discovering Content Type Property Names

Oracle WebCenter Presentations from OOW 2008

Do you need new information about Oracle WebCenter and you miss the OOW 2008, than you can now download some of the content from Oracle here.

Give Beehive a try..

I was a little bit confused as i heared about the new Oracle Beehive Release. Was Beehive not a Bea Java Framework committed to Apache ? Yes and No

Oracle Beehive is a built-from-scratch collaboration application, to give customers a new way to communicate and work together on projects. Oracle Beehive can tie together e-mail clients, instant messaging and chat programs, calendars, voice mail, and conferencing applications behind the scenes so users can more easily share and simultaneously work on documents, e-mails, and multimedia files. Maybe a collaboration suite based on Web Services and BPEL.

You can found more informationen here and when you can give it a try online here.

I hope Oracle know what they doing and we all get not lost in a hell of web services from Beehive, WebCenter (Spaces), Collaboration Suite, Oracle Files...

General Availability of Oracle® WebCenter Suite

Oracle announced the general availability of WebCenter Suite. And what is in the box, today ? Oracle WebCenter Spaces - No ! We have to wait.. But they put Oracle WebLogic Portal 10gR3 into the Suite. Maybe it is only a Oracle WebLogic Portal 10gR3 release announcement wrapped inside a Suite with a unified Portal Framework.

Oracle WebCenter Suite consists of following components:

- Oracle WebCenter Framework

- Oracle WebCenter Services

- Oracle WebCenter Interaction (formerly BEA AquaLogic User Interaction)

- Oracle WebLogic Portal

- Oracle WebCenter Anywhere

More information you can find here.

Anymore Web 2.0 and WebCenter this month

Oracle is presenting Oracle Web Center on the Expo 2008 in San Francisco, April 22-25. For all people they have no change to get to San Francisco with or without flowers in there hear, can find a lot of informationen on the Oracle Wiki.

Oracle WebCenter

or

Web 2.0 Resource Library

Another nice sample of ADF / WebCenter 11g

Today i found a nice YouTube Video with the title "Pax Knowledge Base". In this video you can see how to build a knowlegde base with JDeveloper 11g TP3 and Apache Beehive.

WebCenter Spaces Viewlet

By browsing some time inside Oracle MIX I found this new viewlet about Oracle WebCenter Spaces.
Nice Show :)

WebCenter 11g TP1(3): New Tutorial available

The x-mas present from Thomas Kurian the JDeveloper 11g TP3 include also a technical preview of WebCenter 11g TP1 (3). This days the Oracle WebCenter Team provide a new tutorial for this preview. You can download the tutorial here .

New feature of this preview are the Oracle Composer, a web based tool to create, share and personalize pages. Changes are made in the area of Oracle WebCenter Services.

Following services are included:

- Document Library,Tagging, Links, Search inside WebCenter, Portlets

not included in this preview but will be part of the production version:

- Forums, Wiki, Announcements, Presence, Tasks, and Worklists

This TP3 of WebCenter shows the first impression and handling of costomizing pages at runtime with the Oracle Composer. A function that always provided by Oracle Portal.

The WebCenter Team also provide on OTN the API documentation:

- Customizable Components API

- Web 2.0 Services API

- Portlet API

More information about Oracle WebCenter can be found here.

DOAG2007: Day 1. Impressions

Keynote
A very interesting keynote, presented by Jürgen Kunz, the CEO was about Oracle Fusion and its strategy. The key information of this presentation that I can remember after 8 hours of conference is the following

Application Unlimited 2006 -> Application Integration Architecture 2007 -> Fusion Application 200?

My impression is that Oracle Fusion Application is not right there. They need a step between. This step is called AIA (Application Integrattion Architecture). Last year they titled it SOA or SCA. Maybe they mean the same thing with different names???

Another interesting information I remember from the keynote and from another session about ofm is:

COM - Build a Common Object Model ! Is this not a Mircosoft term ?


Oracle Fusion Architecture by Example
Regis Louis, Oracle Corporation

Mr. Loius showed a case study with the most important technology from the fusion middleware stack.

To shortly caracterize the prototyp:

- Implementation of the Expenses Report from eBusiness Suite.
- Build in 6 Weeks, 6 Developer
- Web Service based on eBusiness Suite Schema
- Event Driven Notification Portlet
- Customizing UI - only Styles - no Column reorder, no MDS
- Nice ui components from BI Enterprise Suite
- Rules / Policies implemented with Oracle Business Rules
- BAM based on BPEL Process Events
- A little bit Web Center
- Prototyp build on BPEL, ADF BC, ADF Model, ADF Faces

Important statments:

The used technology is the basis for Oracle Fusion Application. We evaluate.
50-60% the developer talk about service interface and model.

Development Live Demo:

- Simple JSF Applikation basis for ADF BC
- Trigger a BPLE Process als Web Service
- Integrating a Portlet inside the WebCenter using Rich Text Portlet

Preview: ADF Rich Client Faces are the base on Fusion Middleware

Oracle Web Center Suite: Integrating Composite Applications and Web 2.0 into the Enterprise
Christian Hauser
Oracle Coporation

This was the first live demo i have seen from Oracle Web Center with a lot of my desired features ( that I requested for a long time). The demo showed Web Center Spaces an Oracle Web Center Application.

My keynotes are:

- Web Center are is not interesting on backbone services like email, cms .. its all about UI
- Web Center Applications, Page Templates and other things are registered as resources inside the Enterprise Manager
- Will there be a new type of infrastructure services bundled with EM coming up with the next AS 11g release ?
- Web Center integration in Microsoft Office 2007 possible

The Web Center demo on OOW2007 in San Francisco needs 5 servers running backbone services like wiki, email, instance messager, universal content server. So I hope it will be possible to start SMALL with Web Center.

I think use or not use Web Center is central strategy decision of CIO similar to SOA. Only the main focus is different. It is the UI. The only thing we can do now is to wait for the next version of OracleAS 11g in 2008.

But I already read in some blogs about oow 2007 there will maybe a holiday present in form of a new JDeveloper TP3 with BPEL, Web Center and other new Fusion Middleware technologies.

Demo: Oracle ADF and Oracle WebCenter

A few weeks ago I have presentation with the title: "From Oracle Portal to WebCenter" in Hamburg held. For all participants I provided a Viewlet that this Oracle Technology shows briefly. Even if it is perhaps interesting for you, then you look at it now here.

PS.: Sorry, speak is only in german available.