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Oracle Portal
Oracle Portal, a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, offers an integrated framework for building, deploying, and managing enterprise portals.
Oracle Portal consists of:
In addition, Oracle Portal contains some web content mangement features like simple approval workflows, publication and expiry data etc. There is also some fairly basic application development functionality built directly into the product, where a developer or power user can develop simple data entry forms or uncomplicated reports.
There is also some fairly basic application development functionality built directly into the product. This allows a developer or power user to develop simple data entry forms or uncomplicated reports.
Pro
You can get Oracle Portal for as little as $5,000 (in Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One), which is less than you would spend developing just authentication and session management for an average web application. It is therefore cost efficient to develop even stand-alone web applications as portlets in Oracle Portal.
Organizations with PL/SQL skills can use Oracle Portal and PL/SQL portlets to build web applications.
The built-in content management features are sufficient for most web sites.
Con
Oracle’s main focus in the portal area is clearly on Oracle WebCenter – obvious both from the marketing effort and from the fairly small improvements announced for Portal 11g. The “Oracle Portal Statement of Direction” is also full of recommendations that you should prepare for a future with Oracle WebCenter.
The future of Portal
Oracle has recently launched Oracle WebCenter to "address new and emerging requirements that go beyond the paradigms that currently exist for portals and portal frameworks and address user interaction as a whole" (quote from Portal Statement of Direction). There is some confusion in the marketplace and discussion among the user community about where Oracle Portal and Oracle WebCenter are best deployed. Refer to the above SoD for Oracles recommendations (and note that WebCenter is an enterprise-level product with an enterprise-level price tag: $50K option on top of App Server EE). Note also that with the aquisition of BEA, Oracle got another two portal products, so the future Portal direction after 11g is unclear.
For integration, Oracle WebCenter is supposed to be able to use Oracle Portal PL/SQL portlets (through the Federated Portal Adapter) and to use Oracle Portal content published as JSR-170 (JCR) data sources. It seems that Oracle Portal JPDK portlets will have to be re-written as JSR-168 portlets in order to fit into WebCenter.
See also WebCenter Vs. Portal.
Oracle Portal consists of:
- A framework for building portals and software development kits for building portlets
- Some standard portlets for use in Oracle Portal
- A content repository
In addition, Oracle Portal contains some web content mangement features like simple approval workflows, publication and expiry data etc. There is also some fairly basic application development functionality built directly into the product, where a developer or power user can develop simple data entry forms or uncomplicated reports.
There is also some fairly basic application development functionality built directly into the product. This allows a developer or power user to develop simple data entry forms or uncomplicated reports.
Pro
You can get Oracle Portal for as little as $5,000 (in Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One), which is less than you would spend developing just authentication and session management for an average web application. It is therefore cost efficient to develop even stand-alone web applications as portlets in Oracle Portal.
Organizations with PL/SQL skills can use Oracle Portal and PL/SQL portlets to build web applications.
The built-in content management features are sufficient for most web sites.
Con
Oracle’s main focus in the portal area is clearly on Oracle WebCenter – obvious both from the marketing effort and from the fairly small improvements announced for Portal 11g. The “Oracle Portal Statement of Direction” is also full of recommendations that you should prepare for a future with Oracle WebCenter.
The future of Portal
Oracle has recently launched Oracle WebCenter to "address new and emerging requirements that go beyond the paradigms that currently exist for portals and portal frameworks and address user interaction as a whole" (quote from Portal Statement of Direction). There is some confusion in the marketplace and discussion among the user community about where Oracle Portal and Oracle WebCenter are best deployed. Refer to the above SoD for Oracles recommendations (and note that WebCenter is an enterprise-level product with an enterprise-level price tag: $50K option on top of App Server EE). Note also that with the aquisition of BEA, Oracle got another two portal products, so the future Portal direction after 11g is unclear.
For integration, Oracle WebCenter is supposed to be able to use Oracle Portal PL/SQL portlets (through the Federated Portal Adapter) and to use Oracle Portal content published as JSR-170 (JCR) data sources. It seems that Oracle Portal JPDK portlets will have to be re-written as JSR-168 portlets in order to fit into WebCenter.
See also WebCenter Vs. Portal.
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| wikiponic | Integration of Flex and Oracle Portal | 0 | Jun 23 2008, 5:32 AM EDT by wikiponic | |
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Could someone kindly provide any valuable suggestions and experiences of integrating Flex and Oracle Portal. I am planning to build a dashboard using Flex and integrate with Oracle Portal. Any comments are highly appreciable. Thanks
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| cesarurso | Portal and Flex | 2 | Jun 18 2008, 12:12 AM EDT by aelias@healthe.com | |
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How Flex interact with a broader portal approach
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| wikiponic | What's New Portlet | 0 | May 11 2008, 11:06 PM EDT by wikiponic | |
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I am trying to develop a What's New Portlet to display the portlets being created recently? Is there any way I could build this one or which table or view stores the information regarding the providers and portlets being created/ Thanks in advance
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| wikiponic | Portlet Repository API's | 3 | Mar 18 2008, 11:08 PM EDT by wikiponic | |
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Is there any API's to stimulate the portlet repository kind of concept which is available in Oracle Portal personalize option. We would like to have our own personalize page to where users should be able to add portlets from a folder or repository. Kindly give your thoughts and some help on how to achieve this? Thanks
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| angrydot | Future or Oracle Instant Portal? | 2 | Mar 16 2008, 8:03 PM EDT by mandrew | |
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Oracle Instant Portal seemed to be a good direction for Oracle Portal. It added some Web 2.0 features. I would have liked to see it become the new Portal UI.
There is no mention of Oracle Instant Portal in the Portal Statement of Direction. Any comments on the future of Oracle Instant Portal>
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