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Installation Overview 1-1
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Installation Overview
Oracle WebCenter, an Oracle Fusion Middleware component, is an integrated suite of components designed for creating portals, web sites, and composite applications. This
chapter provides an overview of Oracle WebCenter and outlines the tasks involved in installing and configuring it in a simple, non-cluster topology.
This chapter includes the following sections:
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Section 1.1, Oracle WebCenter Components
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Section 1.2, Oracle WebCenter Installation Roadmap
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Section 1.3, Other Starting Points for Oracle WebCenter Installation
1.1 Oracle WebCenter Components
Oracle WebCenter combines the standards-based, declarative development of Java Server Faces JSF, the flexibility and power of portals, and a set of integrated Oracle
WebCenter services to boost end-user productivity. With the set of components offered through Oracle WebCenter, you can create social applications, enterprise portals,
composite applications, and InternetIntranet web sites.
Oracle WebCenter includes the following components:
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Oracle WebCenter Framework
Provides the ability to embed portlets, content, and customizable components into WebCenter applications—WebCenter Spaces and WebCenter Portal applications.
Oracle WebCenter Framework is automatically installed when you install Oracle WebCenter.
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Oracle WebCenter Spaces
Offers a single, integrated, web-based environment for social networking, communication, and personal productivity through a robust set of services and
applications.
Configuring this component is optional.
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Oracle Portlet Producers
Supports deployment and execution of both standards-based portlets JSR 286 and WSRP 1.0 and 2.0 and traditional Oracle PDK-Java based portlets. Includes the
following preconfigured portlet producers: OmniPortlet, Web Clipping, WSRP Parameter Form Portlet, sample WSRP portlet producers, and sample PDK-Java
portlet producers.
Configuring this component is optional.
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Oracle WebCenter Discussions Server
Supports integration of discussion forums and announcements into WebCenter applications.
Configuring this component is optional.
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Oracle WebCenter Pagelet Producer
Provides the ability to create and manage a diverse set of web resources—applications, components, and programmable functions—and blend
those resources together into existing web applications or new, developer-driven mashups. It enables you to use a wide variety of web technologies, such as AJAX,
REST, and JavaScript, to build pagelets.
Configuring this component is optional.
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Oracle WebCenter Analytics Collector
Delivers comprehensive reporting on activity and content usage within portals and composite applications.
Configuring this component is optional.
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Oracle WebCenter Activity Graph Engines
Provides a central repository for actions that are collected by enterprise applications. Actions include tasks such as making a connection, uploading a
document, visiting a discussion forum, and so on. Enables users to analyze various statistics collected by WebCenter Analytics. The output of a WebCenter Activity
Graph analysis is the collected scores for objects and users, which are used to give recommendations.
Configuring this component is optional.
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Oracle WebCenter Personalization
Provides the ability to deliver application content to targeted users based on selected criteria.
Configuring this component is optional.
1.2 Oracle WebCenter Installation Roadmap
