Oracle WebCenter Portal 11g: Creating Portals using ADF

This WebCenter Portal training covers some of the best practices for creating different pieces of portals for WebCenter Portal 11g with the help of Oracle JDeveloper 11g.Learn To:Create the structure and look and feel for portals.Create Content Presenter templates for populating portals with content.Add external web services to portals by creating task flows for the web services in JDeveloper.Apply the development lifecycle concepts such as using deployer projects and manifest files for versioning in your future asset development.Use WebCenter Portal’s REST APIs to access and modify portal resources.Have your portal pages load quicker by following best practices.Benefits to YouContent Presenter TemplatesAs a developer, you can create Content Presenter templates for portals and have content contributors use these templates to constantly update the content of portals with desired layouts that you provide with the templates. With these templates the content contributors are not required to know any coding and will be users of the templates. Development LifecycleBy following the best practices of a development lifecycle for a task flow in your practices, you can apply that knowledge to any asset that you create in JDeveloper and perform supported methods for asset development. The development lifecycle method makes it easy for teams to work together, because every step is associated with a certain location and it is easy to find the assets, modify or deploy them. This method shows you to version your assets so you do not ever lose your assets. You can create archives of the assets you build and send them to other members of a team to use in their portals.Web ServicesTake advantage of existing external web services and learn to create task flows for them in JDeveloper, create assets from them to include in the resource catalog of WebCenter Portal to and add the web services to your portals.