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Introduction to Oracle AS Portal

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Course Overview

Introduction to Oracle AS Portal is designed for system analysts, programmers and application administrators as an introduction to the Oracle Application Server Portal environment. It provides an overview of Oracle AS. Students can expect to gain a general understanding of Oracle AS Portal, how it fits into Oracle AS, an overview on installation (including caveats and pitfalls), Oracle AS configuration options and, finally, Oracle AS Portal development. Introduction to Oracle AS Portal will be a comprehensive development tutorial designed to get students familiar with all aspects of Oracle AS Portal, including applications, application components, content areas, Oracle AS Portal monitoring and several advanced features, such as session variables and APIs.

Course Goals

Gain an understanding of Oracle AS Portal
Obtain Oracle AS Portal hands-on development experience through lab exercises in an instructor-led environment

Prerequisites

Summary understanding of World Wide Web, HTML and HTTP servers

Who Should Attend?

Systems analysts, programmers and developers

Course Materials

Introduction to Oracle AS Portal Notes
Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook
Disk with Sample Files

Duration

Three days

Tuition

$1,395

Course Outline
Part I -- Fundamentals

Introduction to portal
- What is it
- What it is not
- Definitions
- A tour of a portal site
- Common portal elements
Administration
- Installation
- OC4J processes
- OPMN
- dcmctl
Users and security
- Understanding portal privileges
- Default users and groups
- Creating users and groups
- Database schemas
- SSO/OID

Part II -- portlets

Portlet fundamentals
- Definition
- Things a portlet can do
Portal development, Part I
- Forms
- Reports
- Charts
Portal development, Part II
- Dynamic pages
- Lists Of values
- XML components
- Calendars
Portal development, Part III
- Hierarchies
- Menus
- URLs
- Links
- Data components

Part III -- the portal development kit

The portal development kit
- Acquisition
- Contents
- Installing
- Navigation
Java and PL/SQL portlets
- PL/SQL
- Java
  - JDeveloper 10g
    - Creating a portlet
    - Deploying a portlet

Part IV -- page design

Page design fundamentals
- Page groups and pages
- Common items
- Regions
- Styles
- Templates
Advanced page design
- Navigation pages
- Page and page group properties

Part V -- content

Content fundamentals
- Types of content
- Built-in navigation types
- Publish date and expiration
Advanced content topics
- Item versioning
- Searching
  - Categories and perspectives
  - wwv_context.sync
- WebDAV
Content management SDK