Building Enterprise Information Portal using Oracle Portal 3.0

Rizwan Akhtar 703-568-3702rakhtar@tangible-tech.com

What will we cover today ? Portal Products Oracle Portal Architecture Portlets Database Applications,Content

Area, Page Demo Database Portlets Portal Administration Features

Internet Portals If you are going to use internet ,

you have to start somewhere. A simplified gateway to the

internet. Provides commonly used internet

features such as searching , application integration, personalization.

Types of Portals Mega Portals

Business-to-Consumer web applications that can be personalized.

Horizontal Portals (myYahoo, myExcite etc) Vertical Portals (iVillage)

Enterprise Information Portals (EIP)Applications that enable companies to unlock

internally and externally stored information, and provide users a single gateway to personalized information needed to make informed business decisions.

Enterprise Information Portal(EIP) Internal World Wide Web

provides business users one-stop shopping for any information object they need inside or outside the corporation

Enterprise portals use general-purpose applications in addition to applications specific to the enterprise or industry. Stock Ticker, E-mail, appointment Calendar Enterprise related information tapping into

Corporate Database Provides some level of customization

Portal Products (Web Site Building

Tools) Yahoo Corporate (Yahoo Portal Builder Software) Autonomy Inc. (Portal in a Box) BRIO Technology (Brio.Portal) Epicentric ( Portal Server)

IBM EIP 7.1 Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server Plumtree Oracle Portal

Oracle Portal Next Generation WebDB Web Site Building Tool by Oracle Links database technology with other

application suites and development tools. Information stored entirely in Oracle 8i

(much like Oracle Designer) Uses Web-base Components called portlets Highly Customizable for the End User Uses Single Sign-on

Oracle Portal Architecture

mod_jserv

mod_plsql

WebProvider

HTTP

Lis

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er

Browser

Login Server

PortalRepository &

DatabasesProviders

Page CacheSession Cache

ParallelPage

Engine

Portal DAD

SSO DAD

9i Application Server

Client Middle-Tier Database

From IAS Portal Configuration User manual by Oracle Corp

Portal Architecture Client

Netscape or Internet Explorer Middle Tier

HTTP Listener (by Apache) mod_plsql, mod_jserv (Parallel Page Engine Java Servlet) Portal DAD, SSO DAD

Portal Server (running on Oracle 8i DB) Portal Repository Login Server Repository

Highly Scalable Multiple instances of IAS on the middle tier Multiple nodes of Portal Server to distribute database

load.

What is a Portlet (Demo)

A Portlet is information that is placed within a region on a page

All portlets come from a data source registered with Oracle Portal, called a Portlet Provider

Depending upon security a Portlet can be customized by the Portal User

Oracle Portal Key Sources Applications:Web-enabled applications built

using robust component-building wizards Content Areas: Repositories of corporate

information, such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations and even list of useful related Hyperlinks

External Sites (Portal Providers): content from any external source (Web Site), such as stock quotes, or important news information.

Custom-built Sources: content and application pieces built using the special Portal Development kit PDK

Oracle Portal Developer Interface (Demo)

Built using Oracle Portal Technology Home

Used to perform Maintenance Tasks using various portlets

Portlets available depends on user priviliges Navigator

Build database portlets Content area management Design and Build Pages Database Objects definition access and

modification

What are Portal Applications (Demo)

Group of integrated components and shared components designed to solve a business need or task.

Portal Developers can use wizards to create and deploy Forms and Reports application quickly

Oracle Portal Application Types Form (demo)

Master-Detail Simple

Report (demo) Query Wizard Manual Query

Chart Calendar Dynamic Page

Hierarchy Menu Frame Driver Link List of Values

What is Content Area ? A content area is a collection of related information stored

completely within an Oracle database Organized logically into Folders and sub Folders Folder (Folder Area containing items, Banner, Navigation Bar) (Demo)

The basic unit of content is an item. Folder items may be of the following types

Application component PL/SQL

File Image

Text Java Application

URL Zip File

What is a Page Page is the place where the

information is brought together from all the sources (portlets) is called a Page.

A typical Oracle Portal Page consists of Content Areas Portals Tab Pages Data from External Sources, URL’s

Database Portlets (Demo) Reports

QBE (query by example report) Allows end users to query, insert, update and delete data in

table and views Query wizard

SQL is built using a wizard Manual

SQL is built manually

Forms Simple form based on a table or view Master/detail form

Others

Oracle Portal Administration Demo

Some Web-sites Developer reference

http://technet.oracle.com/ http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/ http://portalstudio.oracle.com/

Sites using Oracle Portal http://www.orca.tv/ http://www.mywebpartner.nl/ http://www.ixarm.com/ http://www.tomatoland.com http://www.ncnielsen.com/

Questions ?