Oracle WebCenter Components Understanding Oracle WebCenter

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6.3.1.1 Oracle WebCenter Components

Oracle WebCenter includes the following components. ■ Oracle WebCenter Spaces offers a single, integrated, Web-based environment for social networking, communication, collaboration, and personal productivity through a robust set of services and applications. Oracle WebCenter Spaces is built using JSF, Oracle ADF, Oracle WebCenter Framework, Oracle WebCenter services, and Oracle Composer. Oracle WebCenter Spaces provides: ■ A browser-based, community-focused application targeting the business user. ■ A personal space for each user, providing a private work area for storing personal content, keeping notes, viewing and responding to business process assignments, maintaining a list of online buddies, emailing, and so on. The focus of a personal space is personal productivity. ■ Group spaces, a rich team collaboration platform. ■ Threaded discussions, worklists, announcements, RSS, recent activities, search, and more. ■ Oracle WebCenter Portlets Framework supports deployment and execution of both standards-based portlets JSR 168, WSRP 1.0 and 2.0, and traditional Oracle PDK-Java based portlets. Oracle WebCenter provides several out-of-the-box producers, such as OmniPortlet, Web Clipping, and WSRP Tools. ■ Oracle WebCenter Framework provides the following capabilities: – Runtime customization you can make in-place changes to the application without redeploying it – Support for JSR-168 standards-based WSRP portlets, and PDK-Java portlets – Content integration through JCR JSR170 to content repositories such as Oracle Content Server, Oracle Portal, and file systems – JSF-Portlet Bridge, which lets you expose JSF pages and Oracle ADF task flows as standards-based portlets ■ Oracle WebCenter Discussion Server provides the ability to integrate discussion forums and announcements into your applications. ■ Oracle WebCenter Analytics provides users with the ability to view reports on the various user activities within an instance of Oracle WebCenter Spaces, for example: – Logins – Page views – Portlet views – Document views – Search metrics – Response times These reports can be broken out by parameters such as User properties, GroupSpaces, and time. ■ Oracle WebCenter Activity Graph provides users with the ability to analyze the statistics collected by Oracle WebCenter Analytics. The output of an Oracle WebCenter Activity Graph analysis is the collected scores for objects and users, 6-32 Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide which are used to give recommendations. The scores are stored in the Oracle WebCenter Activities database. ■ Oracle WebCenter Personalization Server is a lightweight service accessed by client applications via RESTful web services. New JDev tooling supports creation of the property definitions and scenarios used by Oracle WebCenter Personalization. Out-of-the-box integration with other Oracle WebCenter services Oracle Activity Graph, CMIS, People Connections is supported as well as an extensibility model for customers. Oracle WebCenter Personalization Server provides users with the ability to define user and applications property definitions and values and implement structured scenarios. These can be used to personalize any kind of application or application logic for a user, group, or other scope. Oracle WebCenter Spaces and WebCenter Portal applications can also integrate with the following Oracle WebCenter services: ■ Announcements - Provides a means of posting announcements about important activities and events to members of a given group space. ■ Discussions - Provides a means of creating threaded discussions, posting and responding to questions, and searching for answers-all within the context of a group space. Also provides an effective group communication mechanism for important activities and events. ■ Documents - Provides content management and storage capabilities, including content upload, file and folder creation and management, file check out, versioning, and so on. ■ Events - Available in Oracle WebCenter Spaces, the Events service provides a means of creating and maintaining a schedule of events relevant to a wider group of users. Events are published to all members of a group space. ■ Instant Messaging and Presence IMP - Provides a means of observing the status of other authenticated users whether online, offline, busy, or idle and contacting them instantly ■ Links - Provides viewing, accessing, and associating related information; for example you can link to a solution document from a discussion thread. ■ Lists - Available in Oracle WebCenter Spaces, the Lists service provides the ability to create, publish, and manage lists and tables. Users can create lists from prebuilt structures or create their own custom lists. ■ Mail - Provides easy integration with IMAP and SMTP mail servers to enable users to perform simple mail functions such as viewing, reading, creating, and deleting messages, creating messages with attachments, and replying to or forwarding existing messages. ■ Notes - Available in Oracle WebCenter Spaces, the Notes service provides the ability to jot down and retain quick bits of personally relevant information. ■ People Connections - Provides a means of connecting, interacting, and keeping track of other users through social networking applications, such as Message Board, Feedback, Profile, and Activity Stream. ■ Recent Activities - Provides a summary view of recent changes to pages, documents, discussions, announcements, lists, and events. ■ RSS - Provides the ability to access the content of many different Web sites from a single location-a news reader. Configuring High Availability for Oracle ADF and WebCenter Applications 6-33 ■ Search - Provides a means of searching tags, services, the application, or an entire site. This includes integrating Oracle Secure Enterprise Search for Oracle WebCenter searches. ■ Tags - Provides a means of assigning one or more personally relevant keywords to a given page or document. ■ Worklists - Provides a means of viewing notifications from the various workflows established in your enterprise. For information about how to configure these Oracle WebCenter services, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter.

6.3.1.2 Oracle WebCenter Single-node Architecture