WebCenter Blog

WebCenter 11.1.1.8 Performance Analysis Feature

2013-08-21T08:49:00.002+02:00

Performance Analysis of a Portal application is an area that is usually time consuming, since the typical portal is made up of numerous distinct task flows. The traditional approach relies on testing task flows in isolation and trying to gauge the performance impact each task flow makes to a page. With WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.8 however, this process becomes extremely simple and efficient. Read

A-Team Chronicles...

2013-06-13T11:14:00.002+02:00

As you maybe already know, Oracle A-Team lunch new web site called A-Team Chronicles. As part of the Oracle WebCenter A-Team I will post in the feature all my new Blog articles on that new site. You can find the new site here: http://www.ateam-oracle.com

Configure Coherence for Oracle WebCenter Portal Framework Content Presenter Task Flow

2013-03-15T12:22:00.001+01:00

This guide aims to give you complete configuration overview for how to configure Coherence Cache for Oracle WebCenter Portal Framework Application using the Content Presenter Task Flow. This document is intended for WebCenter Portal Application administrators who have to improve performance by configuring Coherence cache for Content Presenter. For more information about the Coherence Cache for

Which managed server needs Java Object Cache and how to verify JOC is running

2013-03-15T12:19:00.001+01:00

Since I work for the Oracle WebCenter A-Team I will post all my new blogs on our internal blog system. Because I do have a lot of committer to RSS I will post here references to my new articles. So this is going to be the first one. My college Yannick already wrote very good article about how to configure Java Object Cache in clustered environment you can find HERE. There are two things on top

JDeveloper could not establish connection to the Integrated Weblogic Server!

2012-06-14T13:20:00.001+02:00

I was facing a problem, that I can start the JDeveloper Integrated WebLogic Server but when I want to deploy and start my application, I was getting the error that the server maybe does not run or is not started. Also on the left side you should be able to see something like this: …BUT in my case, I was always getting the error that connection could not be established. Playing around I figure

JDeveloper Performance Optimizations

2012-06-12T14:04:00.001+02:00

I just read very interesting article about JDeveloper and performance improvement from Angelo’s blog, take a look HERE. I played with the properties but I am not really sure if the speed is improved, my projects are also not big enough I suppose, but maybe you cant try it and see if it works for you. I also have a SSD hard drive and I must say since then JDeveloper is fast like Ferrari

Unresolved Web App Library References when Deploying Portlets

2012-06-11T16:14:00.001+02:00

When you try to deploy your portlets to clustered environment and you get the following error message: [06:06:17 PM] ---- Deployment started. ----[06:06:17 PM] Target platform is (Weblogic 10.3).[06:06:17 PM] Retrieving existing application information[06:06:17 PM] Running dependency analysis...[06:06:17 PM] Building...[06:06:19 PM] Deploying 2 profiles...[06:06:19 PM] Creating portlet

Add Meta Tags in WebCenter Portal using only ADF

2012-05-21T10:00:00.001+02:00

Developing with WebCenter Portal you may come to a point where you would like to add some custom meta tags inside the html header. There are a lot of approaches to do so, some developer are using JQuery for example, when the develop with Webcenter Portal. There is also another one method by just using ADF and JSF tags. You can do so by just modifying you Page Style and adding following code: <

Generic links for WebCenter–event better

2012-04-30T11:51:00.001+02:00

I had a post last week, talking about how to create generic links in WebCenter Spaces, you can read HERE. There is actually even more easier way to generate the link without to use the all request variables by just using this: #{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/spaces/#{spaceContext.currentSpaceName}You can use this also on every ADF page, for example to generate URL

Create WebCenter Portal Custom Skin

2012-04-26T21:41:00.001+02:00

Maybe one of the most common task is creating custom skin in WebCenter Portal. Every time you create a portal you mostly have to change the design to suite your customer branding. For creating custom skin inside the WebCenter Portal follow those steps: First create new CSS file under the SKINS folder like show bellow. This is very important, if the file is not under the skins folder you can not

Unable to open the General WebCenter Spaces Administration Page

2012-04-23T16:45:00.001+02:00

IF you create new admin user into WebLogic Server and try to login into the WebCenter Spaces Administration Page you will realize that you will be not able to do it. Basically such a problem comes when the default weblogic account is replaced by new one admin account but only giving the new account Administrative Proviliges in WebLogic Server will be not enough. If you have similar issue check

Generic links for WebCenter Spaces

2012-04-18T18:34:00.001+02:00

In most of the tutorials you normally do some step by step examples and mostly you have use absolute links like this one: http://<host name>:<port number>/webcenter/spaces/<name of the Space or Subspace>/adminAll good, until you move this to another environment or change to HTTPS for example. How about using some expressions and do this generic. For example using the navigation

WebCenter Interaction Portal new release!

2012-02-02T11:21:00.001+01:00

Maybe some of you already know, there is new release of the WebCenter Interaction Portal aka AquaLogic Portal aka Plumtree. Looking into the release notes and also playing with the product you will find some very nice new integrations inside for example: Official support for .NET 3.5 and Java 1.6 Support for 64-bit systems on Windows and Linux. There are some new adaptive tags for the adaptive

Custom Oracle WebCenter Portal Navigation Filter

2011-11-04T14:42:00.001+01:00

When you work with WebCenter Portal navigation model you do not have the possibility to set the security there or to define which element which user or role for example is able to see it. You can go even farther and for example define some navigation model, which should be rendered based on ID naming convention. To solve this issue in WebCenter you do have the possibility to develop custom

Exporting WebCenter Metadata using WLST

2011-09-27T20:17:00.001+02:00

When you install Oracle WebCenter you get also some new functions inside the WLST which allows you to export the metadata. To use this functions you need to do the following: Go to the location where your Oracle WC was installed. The default folder is Oracle_WC1 $ORACLE_WC1/common/bin Start the wlst.sh script inside. This will initialize a session with the newly installed functions. If

Configuring Oracle WebTier

2011-08-22T11:37:00.001+02:00

If you installed the Oracle WebTier and you want to configure it, here are some steps of how to do it: Start the Oracle WebTier Configuration Wizard In the new screen select next to proceed with the configuration. This is very important step, it asks you, if you want to associate with existing WebLogic domain. If you select this option you will associate the WebTier instance with already

Fix not enough temp space when try to install Oracle WebTier

2011-08-16T15:41:00.001+02:00

Oracle WebTier installer requires 80MB of free temp space to be able to install the Oracle WebTier components. When you try to start the installer if you do not have enough temp space you could get a error or info message that installer check failed and you would not be able to proceed with the installation. To fix this issue you have to increase your temp space. You can do it like this: change

Create JSR 286 Portlet with Oracle WebCenter and JDeveloper

2011-08-12T12:29:00.001+02:00

What I really like in JDeveloper is the easiness to create JSR 286 Portlets. Since I want to write several articles about creating and using JSR 286 Portlets in Oracle WebCenter Portal let me give you the here the first step about creating such a portlets. Step 1: Open JDeveloper and click on New Application. To be able to start developing a portlet you do need first to create Portlet Producer

Building your first GWT application with JDeveloper

2011-08-11T10:42:00.002+02:00

Since I do work also with JDeveloper I was wondering about solution and possibility to use GWT into the JDeveloper. This should not really be a problem, since GWT allows you to include the framework into every Web application, but there is no plugin available for JDeveloper at the moment, which allows you to use the GWT Framework like in Eclipse environment. Few years ago someone developed a

Navigation shortcuts every JDeveloper programmer should know

2011-08-10T11:19:00.001+02:00

I read this article and decide to make such an article for JDeveloper as well. I already post article about how to load the Eclipse shortcut schema in JDeveloper but if you want to use the standard JDeveloper schema here how to do it, so let’s start: Open any file quickly without browsing Application Navigator: Ctrl+Alt+Minus Open a type (e.g.: a class, an interface) without clicking through

JDeveloper Shortcuts

2011-08-09T18:25:00.001+02:00

I was looking about JDeveloper shortcuts, since I was developing a lot with Eclipse in the last project I wanted to have similar shortcuts also for JDeveloper and here the interesting part, you do have predefined Eclipse shortcuts which you can load into the JDeveloper. To do so do the following: Start JDeveloper Go to Tools->Preferences… on the left side select Shortcut Keys From the

Start WebLogic Server in debug mode

2011-07-27T20:00:00.000+02:00

To be able to start the WLS in debug mode you normally need to add the following line to the JAVA_OPTIONS: set REMOTE_DEBUG_ OPTIONS=-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=4000,server=y,suspend=n Now there is even more easier way to do so but just modifying the setDomainEnv.sh and put the following line: