You can append a parameter value to the URL and the portlet displays the value

7-28 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle Portal For example: ■ Provider service specific names should be of the form: {company}{component name}{provider name}{variable name} ■ Shared names should be of the form: {company}{component name}{provider name}global where: ■ {company} is the name of the company owning the application. ■ {component name} is the name of the application or component with which the provider is associated. ■ {provider name} is the service name of the provider. ■ {variable name} is the name of the variable itself. As you can see, these naming conventions are similar to those used for Java packages. This approach minimizes the chance of name collisions between applications or application components. PDK-Java provides utilities that allow you to retrieve variables in this form without hard coding the service name of the provider into your servlets or JSPs. The service name need only be defined in the providers WAR file. Refer to Section 7.2.4.3, Retrieving JNDI Variables for more information on retrieving JNDI variables.

7.2.4.1.3 Examples The following examples illustrate provider variable names:

oracleportalmyProvidermyDeploymentProperty oracleportalmyprovidermyPropertiesmyProperty The following example illustrates non-provider variable names: oracleportalmyOtherProperty

7.2.4.2 Setting JNDI Variable Values

In your provider deployment, you may want to set a new value for some or all of your JNDI variables. You can perform this task by setting the values manually in a Oracle WebLogic Server deployment plan as follows:

1. Go to the provider deployment in the Oracle WebLogic Administration Console,

and create a new Deployment Plan if one hasnt been set against it.

2. Edit the Deployment Plan XML file. For each deployment property you want to

set, add the following variable definition directly under the deployment-plan tag: variable-definition variable namejndi_var_defname valuefalsevalue variable variable-definition Note: If you use the EnvLookup method, you must use oracleportalproviderserviceproperty. You cannot substitute your own company name or component in this case.