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About Site Studio for External Applications 1-1
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About Site Studio for External Applications
Site Studio for External Applications can dramatically improve productivity and allows organizations to maintain accurate, timely, and current web content with
consistent branding and presentation across all corporate sites. With Site Studio, you can centralize control of site architecture and presentation, while distributing content
development and ongoing maintenance to business units or other teams. Additionally, Site Studio for External Applications can be integrated with third-party applications
servers.
This section covers the following topics:
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Section 1.1, New for this Release
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Section 1.2, Introduction to Site Studio for External Applications
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Section 1.3, Installing Site Studio for External Applications
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Section 1.4, Understanding the Site Studio Project Structure
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Section 1.5, Understanding Site Studio Site Files,
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Section 1.6, Understanding the Site URL Format
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Section 1.7, Understanding Security and Contributor Authentication
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Section 1.8, Understanding Content Caching
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Section 1.9, Understanding Service Caching with the Site Studio Tag Library
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Section 1.10, Understanding Site Studio JSPJSPX Templates
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Section 1.11, Including Oracle Site Studio Manager Functionality
1.1 New for this Release
These enhancements, upgrades, or changes are new for this release:
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Site Studio for External Applications can be used on Oracle Content Server 10gR3. See
Section 1.3, Installing Site Studio for External Applications for more
information.
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JSPX templates can be stored on Oracle Content Server. See Section 1.10,
Understanding Site Studio JSPJSPX Templates for more information.
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Oracle Site Studio Manager functionality can be added to your site. See Section 1.11, Including Oracle Site Studio Manager Functionality
for more information.
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The Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard provides an option to generate a domain configured automatically to support Oracle Universal Content
1-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Site Studio for External Applications
Management - SSXA Server. For additional information, refer to the Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite or the
Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard online help.
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Preference settings include the automatic check in of template files and definition files on editor save of those files. These preference settings are enabled by default
and can be changed on the preferences panel from the JDeveloper main menu, select Tools, then Preferences, and then SiteStudio.
1.2 Introduction to Site Studio for External Applications
Site Studio for External Applications is a powerful, flexible web development tool that offers a comprehensive approach to designing, building, and maintaining
enterprise-scale web sites in an application server environment. Web site development and template creation is performed in the JDeveloper environment. Site assets, such as
files and graphics, are stored and managed in the content server. Templates may be stored and managed in the content server or as part of your project in JDeveloper,
depending on the type of template used.
Site Studio JSPJSPX templates, including page templates, region templates, and subtemplates, can be stored locally within Oracle JDeveloper or checked in to your
Oracle Content Server instance.
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JSPX templates stored locally are typically located in a subdirectory within your project on JDeveloper. For example, the wcmtemplatespage subdirectory
would typically contain all page templates associated with your project.
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JSPX templates can also be stored on an Oracle Content Server 11gR1 or 10gR3 instance. This allows templates to be modified and updated on your site without
having to re-deploy the application. JSPX templates stored on Oracle Content Server can be edited in your JDeveloper environment and previewed multiple
times before being committed to Oracle Content Server.
Your project may contain both JSPX templates stored locally and JSPX templates stored on Oracle Content Server. However, it is recommended that you build each project
using one template type.
1.3 Installing Site Studio for External Applications
