Weblogic Notes III

Portlet

• Associates files, XML and JPSs
• Editable in design view/Source editor
  

• Create/Open a Portal file in IDE
• Answer yes when prompted if you want to create portlet
• Wizard opens up
• Title, Content URI, Error page
• Alternatively right click on Portal web project,
• New->Portlet
• Select Portlet Type: Jsp, Struts, Java, remote,Page flow
• Can use portlets from Portlet Library
• Annual reports
• Business publications
• Company News
• Company Performance
• Discussion Forums
• Login Director
• Login To Portal
• Market Summary
• My Calendar
• My Contacts
• My Contents
• RSS News feed
• Targeted menu
• Tutorial
• Yahoo Mail
• Yahoo Search
• Steps
• Copy .portlet file into /project/portlets/includes
• Copy >=1 JSP files to /project/portlets/
• //portlets folder.
• In some cases, copying a *.java backing file to your //
  WEB-INF/src//... folder.
• In some cases, copying a JAR used by the portlet to your //WEB-INF/lib folder.

Customizing a Portlet

• Modes
  
• Edit-Custom File to let users modify content
• Help
• Float-Portlet displayed in a Popup
• States
• Maximize
• Minimise
• Delete
• Modified in properties editor
  
• Icons are stored in /images directory
• Modify in Property Editor
• Insert-> EditMode or Insert->HelpMode
• Floatable
• .portlet file
• 
  

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Weblogic Notes II

<>What is a Portal
• Single point of access for apps and info
  
• May be one of many hosted on a Single weblogic Server
• End User sees portal as a website with pages organized by tabs/other Nav mechanism
• Each page has a nesting of pages and one or more portlets
• J2EE perspective - Portal is a collection of EJBs and Webapps(Servlets, JSps taglibs, Java Classes
  

Portal Components

• Desktop
• Shell-.shell file, above and below main body
  
• Book
• Page
• Layout/Placeholder
• Portlet
• Portal Rendering andLook and Feel Components
• Skins-Colors, graphics, style
  


• Skeletons

Portal Development Tools and Services

• Designers and Samples
• Java Controls
• JSP Tags
• Content Management
• Personalization, Interaction and Behavior Tracking
• Apis

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Weblogic Notes I

• Portal
• Powerful website
• Single Point of access- Applications, Info in a unified interface
• Each app has ints own window-Portlet,
  
• Single browser window can contain many portlets
  
• WebLogic Portals
• Powerful portals can be quickly created independant of Application
• Weblogic workshop
• Weblogic portal framework
• tools
• Anatomy of a Portal
• Resource collection assembled in different views- Desktops
  
• Desktop- user view of a portal
• Portal can have several desktops
• Properties of a Portal Desktop
1. Desktop look and feel
• Skins : graphics, style and javascrip
• <>Skeletons: Physical boundary rendering of all component

2. Header and Footer(Shell): XML file that points to JSPs /HTML files
3. Top Level Book, menus, themes: -Initial navigation style
4. Pages and Books and Menu Themes-naviagble containers for organizing portlets 5. Layout and Placeholders: Book and portlet positioning on pages- XML file
6. Portlets and Themes- Containers that surface contents and applications in a desktop
7. Property Editor Window

• Multiple portals and desktops in a Single application
• Security-Delegated administration and Entitlements
• Dynamic configurable polices-delegated administration
• Customizable content
• Weblogic Portal tools and Services
• Multichannel support-fast flexible development for mobile devices
• Content Management
• Interaction Management-Track User behavior
  
• Search-buily in Search- File Systems, HTTP and ODBC searches
  
• Collaboration-My Mail, My tasklist, My Calendar, My Contacts Discussion forums
  
• My Yahoo! enterprize edition Portlets: Headline news, Company news, Stock Portfolio, Market Sumary, Weather, Sports, Maps, Travel Notepad, PAckage tracker,etc.
• Prebuilt Java Controls -Add Java code for authentication,user creation,property set management
• Weblogic Portal Visitor tools-Customizable portal desktops
• Commerce
• APIs
• Open Standards Support

• Portal Development Lifecycle:
• Development
• Administration
• Entitlements

References:
http://e-docs.bea.com/wlp/docs81/overview/overview_wlp.html#998960
http://e-docs.bea.com/workshop/docs81/doc/en/core/index.html

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