Deploying a Web-Oriented Architecture withOracle WebCenter, Oracle WebLogic Portal, andOracle WebCenter Interaction

Peter Laird, Architect, OracleSkip Sauls, Senior Principal Product Manager, OracleChris Bucchere, President & CEO, bdg

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Agenda

• What is WOA?

• Motivation for WOA

• WOA at Oracle Today

• Oracle WOA Roadmap

• Q&A

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What is WOA?

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“In other words, the Web modelprovides a single, open, and unified

information architecture that isconsistent, easily consumed,

extremely scalable, securable, veryreusable, resilient, and highly

federated.”

Dion HinchcliffeFounder, Hinchcliffe & Co.

Dion Hinchcliffe’s Blog

WOA – Web Oriented Architecture

WOA – All About Resources

• Identified by unique addresses (URI)

• Manipulated via HTTP verbs using REST

• Manipulated solely by browsers or other servers

• Accessed via layers with no knowledge of the network

• Representation and state are understood by the client

• Implicit service contract via the representation

• May contain embedded URIs to build a larger network

• Embody SOA principals, often in unexpected ways

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Motivation for WOA

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“Enterprise 2.0 means letting usersinto your back office, and turning

your company inside out… Orwaiting for an innovative startup to

do it for you.”

Tim O’ReillyFounder & CEO, O’Reilly Media

Web 2.0 Expo Keynote

Motivation for Using WOA

• Access to data• Enable your employees, partners, and customers

• Improve productivity by eliminating bottlenecks

• Increase potential for innovative solutions

• User interface flexibility• Allow clients to choose how to view and use the data

• Remove barriers imposed by outdated or poor designs

• Enable creativity – go beyond original expectations

WOA – Access to Data: Google

WOA – Access to Data: Amazon

Payments & Billing

DevPay

Flexible Payments Service

On-Demand Workforce

Mechanical Turk

Fulfillment & Associates

Fulfillment Web Service

Associates Web Service

Infrastructure Services

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

SimpleDBSimple Queue Service

Web Search & Information

Alexa Site Thumbnail

Alexa Top Sites

Alexa Web Information Service

Alexa Web Search

WOA – Access to Data: Everyone!

WOA – User Interface Flexibility

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WOA at Oracle Today

WOA Across Oracle

WEBLOGIC SERVER

WEBCENTER SPACES

WEBLOGIC PORTAL

WEBCENTER INTERACTION

UNIVERSAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT

OC4J

JSR311 EXPERT GROUP

APEX

(APPLICATION EXPRESS)BEEHIVE

Oracle WebCenter Interaction

• Products acquired from BEA (2008) and Plumtree(2005)

• Parallel Portlet Engine (PPE): Providing parallel HTTPportlet aggregation since 1999

• Options include:• a portal UI: AquaLogic Interaction (a.k.a. Plumtree

Foundation)

• or no UI: AquaLogic Ensemble (a.k.a. Project Runner)

• Example: using Ensemble, mash personal data fromFacebook into CRM server, with minimal changes tounderlying CRM cod

Oracle WebLogic Portal

• Access to data• Portal Framework REST Services

• User interface flexibility• Dynamic Interface Scripting (Disc)

• HTTP portlet publishing

• Application• Dynamic Visitor Tools (DVT)

Portal Framework REST Services

• Portal data exposed as REST services• Unlocks data from a vertical application

• Allows data to be shared between client applications

• Oracle WebLogic Portal 10gR3• Provides services for portal customization

• Portlet, page, book, portal, and user customization

• Supports the Dynamic Visitor Tools

Disc – Dynamic Interface Scripting

• Public JavaScript API for interacting with WLP Framework

• Provides context information for portlets, pages, books, etc.

• Allows customers to build context-aware portlets

• Enables the use of most 3rd party Ajax toolkits

• Works well with HTTP client tools such as Firebug

• Used extensively by the DVT to interact with REST

• Extend WLP for Web 2.0 while maintaining compatibility

Disc & REST

WLP

GetContext

UserAction

GenerateURL

SetParams

CallCommand

RESTCommand

ProcessResponse

DisplayMessage

Reload

XHR

Disc

HTTP Portlet Publishing

DVT – Dynamic Visitor Tools

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Oracle WOA Roadmap

REST Framework

• Oracle WebCenter REST Framework• Provides open access to all WebCenter Services

• Based on WLP REST Framework

• Phased rollout for WebCenter Services

WebCenter Services REST Enablement

• Announcements

• Applications

• Blog

• Conferencing

• Discussions

• Documents

• Events

• Favorites

• Group Space

• Group Tasks

• Instant Messaging

• Lists

• Notes

• Page

• People Connections

• Personal To-dos

• Personal Email

• Presence

• Relationship

• Search

• Tags

• Timebar

• User Profile

• Wiki

• Worklist

Client Side Programming

• Provides additional RIA features for WebCenter

• Convergence of various Oracle & other technologies• WebLogic Portal Disc JavaScript Framework

• WebCenter Interaction JavaScript Framework

• OpenAjax

• ADF Faces Rich Client Components

• 3rd Party Ajax Libaries – Dojo, YUI, JQuery, etc.

• Client Dev Tools – Firebug, JavaScript Editors

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Q&A

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