Oracle® Fusion Middleware Developing WebCenter Portal Assets and Custom Components with Oracle JDeveloper 12c (12.2.1) E48260-05 March 2016 Documentation for developers that explains how to develop and customize portal assets and components for Oracle WebCenter Portal using Oracle JDeveloper. Oracle Fusion Middleware Developing WebCenter Portal Assets and Custom Components with Oracle JDeveloper, 12c (12.2.1) E48260-05 Copyright © 2007, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Contributing Authors: Ingrid Snedecor, Savita Thakur, G Annapoorani, Sonia Nagar, Shoba Rao This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. 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Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................................................... xv Audience ...................................................................................................................................................... xv Related Documents.................................................................................................................................... xvi Conventions................................................................................................................................................ xvi Who©s Who ..................................................................................................................................................... xvii Knowledge Worker .................................................................................................................................. xvii Application Specialist.............................................................................................................................. xviii Web Developer........................................................................................................................................... xix Developer..................................................................................................................................................... xx System Administrator ................................................................................................................................ xx Part I Getting Started 1 Introduction to Developing for Oracle WebCenter Portal 1.1 What Is the Purpose of This Guide?.............................................................................................. 1-1 1.2 What Is My Role as a WebCenter Portal Developer? ................................................................. 1-2 2 Setting Up a Development Environment 2.1 Introduction to Setting up a Development Environment.......................................................... 2-1 2.2 Basic Setup Tasks............................................................................................................................. 2-1 2.2.1 Installing Oracle JDeveloper............................................................................................... 2-1 2.2.2 Installing the WebCenter Portal Extensions for JDeveloper.......................................... 2-2 2.2.3 Setting the User Home Directory Environment Variable............................................... 2-2 2.2.4 Managing the Integrated WebLogic Server...................................................................... 2-2 2.2.5 Creating Application Resource Connections ................................................................... 2-3 2.3 Setup Tasks Specific to WebCenter Portlet Producer Applications ......................................... 2-4 2.3.1 Deploying the Preconfigured Portlet Producers.............................................................. 2-5 2.3.2 Accessing OmniPortlet ........................................................................................................ 2-5 2.3.3 WSRP Sample Portlet Producers and Portlets ................................................................. 2-6 2.3.4 PDK-Java Sample Portlet Producer and Portlets............................................................. 2-6 iii Part II Working with WebCenter Portal Assets 3 Introduction to WebCenter Portal Assets 3.1 About Working with WebCenter Portal Assets .......................................................................... 3-1 3.2 Developing Assets for WebCenter Portal .................................................................................... 3-2 3.2.1 Setting Up Your JDeveloper Environment for Asset Development ............................. 3-2 4 Working with the Portal Asset Application Template 4.1 About the WebCenter Portal Asset Application Template ....................................................... 4-1 4.2 Creating a WebCenter Portal Asset Application......................................................................... 4-2 4.2.1 How to Create a WebCenter Portal Asset Application................................................... 4-2 4.2.2 What You May Need to Know About Asset Application Artifacts.............................. 4-5 4.3 Creating and Editing WebCenter Portal Assets .......................................................................... 4-5 4.4 Publishing WebCenter Portal Assets ............................................................................................ 4-6 4.4.1 Creating a WebCenter Portal Server Connection ............................................................ 4-6 4.4.2 Publishing a WebCenter Portal Asset ............................................................................... 4-8 4.5 Testing WebCenter Portal Assets .................................................................................................. 4-9 5 Developing Layouts 5.1 About Developing Layouts ............................................................................................................ 5-1 5.2 Creating a Layout ............................................................................................................................ 5-1 5.2.1 How to Create a Layout ...................................................................................................... 5-1 5.2.2 What You May Need to Know About Layout Artifacts ................................................. 5-2 5.3 Editing a Layout............................................................................................................................... 5-4 5.4 Publishing a Layout........................................................................................................................