WebCenter Spaces Oracle WebCenter Architecture

1-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter ■ Spaces, a rich team collaboration platform. ■ A Home Space for each user, providing a private work area for storing personal content, keeping notes, viewing and responding to business process assignments, emailing, and so on. The focus of a Home Space is personal productivity. ■ Threaded discussions, blogs, wikis, worklists, announcements, RSS, recent activities, search, and more.

1.2.4 Oracle Composer

Oracle Composer provides: ■ Ability to perform run-time application and user customization in-place in your browser ■ A rich, intuitive user experience where you can: – Browse and add resources, such as task flows and portlets, to pages – Re-arrange page layout – Set page and component properties – Contextually wire components

1.2.5 WebCenter Services

Table 1–1 lists WebCenter services available in WebCenter Spaces and other WebCenter Portal applications. WebCenter services provide: ■ Seamless integration with enterprise-level services ■ Thin adapter layer to abstract back-end services. For example: – Content adapters: Oracle Content Server, and Oracle Portal. Table 1–1 WebCenter Services Services A Through N Services P Through W Analytics Page Announcements People Connections Discussions Personalization Documents includes Wikis and Blogs Polls Events 2 RSS 1 1 RSS news feeds are available from WebCenter Spaces only. The RSS Viewer task flow is available in both WebCenter Spaces and WebCenter Portal applications. Instant Messaging and Presence IMP Recent Activities Links Activity Graph Lists 2 Search Mail Tags Notes 2 2 WebCenter Spaces only. Worklist Introduction to Oracle WebCenter Administration 1-5 – Presence adapters: Oracle WebLogic Communication Server OWLCS, Microsoft Live Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communications Server ■ Back-end systems represented by a unified connection architecture ■ User interface to services presented through rich task flow components

1.2.6 WebCenter Discussion Server

Oracle WebCenter Discussion Server provides the ability to integrate discussion forums and announcements into your applications.

1.2.7 WebCenter Analytics

Oracle WebCenter Analytics enables users to view various user activity reports, for example: ■ Login data ■ Page views ■ Portlet views ■ Document views ■ Search metrics ■ Page response data ■ Space usage

1.2.8 WebCenter Activity Graph

Oracle WebCenter Activity Graph enables users to analyze various statistics collected by WebCenter Analytics. The output of a WebCenter Activity Graph analysis is the collected similarity scores for objects and users, which are used to give recommendations. The scores are stored in the WebCenter Activity Graph database.

1.2.9 WebCenter Personalization Server

Oracle WebCenter Personalization Server enables you to deliver application content to targeted users based on selected criteria.

1.2.10 Portals

Portals provide a common interface a Web page to a personalized, single point of interaction with Web-based applications and information relevant to individual users or class of users. For information about creating portals, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle WebCenter.

1.2.11 Composite Applications

A composite application is an assembly of services, service components, wires, and references designed and deployed as a single application. For more information about composite applications, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite.