Oracle Composer WebCenter Services

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. 1-6 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter

1.3 Oracle WebCenter Topology

This section describes Oracle WebCenter topology and configuration in the following sections: ■ Section 1.3.1, WebCenter Topology Out-of-the-Box ■ Section 1.3.2, WebCenter Managed Servers ■ Section 1.3.3, WebCenter Startup Order ■ Section 1.3.4, WebCenter Dependencies ■ Section 1.3.5, WebCenter Configuration Considerations ■ Section 1.3.6, WebCenter State and Configuration Persistence ■ Section 1.3.7, WebCenter Log File Locations

1.3.1 WebCenter Topology Out-of-the-Box

Oracle WebCenter installation creates a WebCenter Oracle Home under the Oracle Middleware Home directory and an Oracle Common Home directory, which contains WebCenter binaries and supporting files Figure 1–2 . Figure 1–2 Directory Structure of an Oracle WebCenter Installation The installation also creates a WebCenter domain base_domain, containing the administration server and several managed servers to host various WebCenter components. In Figure 1–3 , applications are shown in yellow, while the managed servers they run on are shown in brown.