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Weblogic 8.1 Portal Development Print E-mail
Course Length - 3 Days
 
Course Description

Weblogic Portal is an enterprise scalable portal platform. Portals allow organizations to build a consistent web presentation for their applications that are deployed on both intra and internets. This class will guide developers through the process of building all the necessary components of a portal applications within Weblogic Workshop. Students will also spend some time administrating portals while deploying campaigns and targeted presentations for particular types of users. This is a hands-on learning experience, with each student having their own Weblogic Server to learn with.

 

You Will Learn How To:

At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Describe Portal Application development
  • Design, Create and Deploy enterprise scalable portals on Weblogic
  • Create portlets to allow existing applications to be surfaced simply and easily
  • Define PageFlows and surface them in a portlet
  • Configure Custom Look and feel components like Skins and Skeletons
  • Create Users and Groups for targeting campaigns
  • Secure applications based on a users login credentials
  • Tune a Weblogic server for maximum performance 
 

Course Prerequisites

Participants should have a java development background. Familiarity with building and deploying JSP and Servlet based web applications is essential. Some background familiarity with Weblogic as a platform is helpful, but not necessary.

 

Course Outline

Intro to Portal

  • What is a portal
  • Portal History
  • Portal Objectives
  • Portal Tools Overview
  • Workshop Introduction
  • Administrative Portal Introduction
  • Walk Through Sample Portal

Weblogic Workshop Introduction

  • Applications
  • Projects
  • Project Components
  • IDE Properties
  • Walk Through building a simple JSP (Date Display JSP)
  • Configuring Server Properties
  • Setting up Weblogic Domains
  • Workshop
  • Deployment
  • Testing
  • Debugging

Portal components

  • Portal file
  • Portal Properties
  • Portal Build Properties
  • Desktops
  • Desktop Properties
  • Books
  • Book Properties
  • Layouts

J2EE Web Applications

  • J2EE Components
  • Servlets
  • JSP
  • PageFlow Introduction
  • Workshop Controls
  • Portlets

Weblogic PageFlows

  • Introducion to PageFlows
  • Introduction to MVC
  • PageFlow Components
  • PageFlow Controller
  • Action Objects
  • PageFlow Pages

Portlets

  • Introduction
  • Portlet Files
  • Common Portlet Types
  • PageFlow Portlets
  • WebService Portlets
  • Walk Through Simple WebService Portlet

Portal Look and Feel

  • Layouts
  • Layout Managers
  • Grid
  • Border
  • Flow
  • Navigation Menus
  • Skins
  • Skin Themes
  • Skeleton
  • Skeleton Themes

Portal Administration

  • Portal Management
  • Administrative Portal
  • Content Management
  • User Management
  • Interaction Management

Portal Security

  • Introduction
  • Sign-on
  • User Logon Control
  • Authentication
  • Unified User Profiles
  • Logon portlet

Portal Interaction

  • Content Management
  • Personalization
  • Campaigns
  • Campaign Types
  • Segments
  • Content Selectors
  • Backing Files