ORACLE WEBCENTER (WC)

Questions and Answers

Compiled by: Deepak Bhagat

Fusion Functional Consultant,
Solution Architect & ADF Trainer
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1. What is Oracle WebCenter?

WebCenter is the enterprise Web 2.0 extensional framework, build on top of ADF to develop a
complete portfolio of Sites, Portal and Content Management.
Implements the (run-time) customization and personalization requirements
Allows consumption of third party, external portlets
Provides many Web 2.0 Services and Community Workspaces

2. What are the Pillers of WebCenter?

WebCenter Sites
WebCenter Portal Cloud
WebCenter Content

3. What are the key benefits of Oracle WebCenter?

Supporting industry standards
Enabling easy integration into an existing infrastructure
Providing a single paradigm to build all UIs
Extending existing Java EE and SOA applications
Reducing development time

4. What is Oracle WebCenter Sites?

To drive sales, marketing, and loyalty, and to convert customers; marketers and business
users:
 create, manage and moderate contextually relevant, targeted, media-rich, social and
interactive online experiences (dynamic websites)
 optimize customer engagement across multiple channels (web, mobile, social channel,
etc.)
 manage large-scale global presences, with integration to enterprise application
Competes in the Web Experience Management market space
Example: Amazon

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5. Show Oracle WebCenter Architecture?

6. What is Oracle WebCenter Portal?

Oracle WebCenter Portal provides design time and runtime tools for building enterprise portals,
transactional web sites, and social networking sites. It provides portal-specific features such as
page hierarchies, navigation models, delegated security, customization, and others. Portals can
also include features like portlets, content management system integration, personalization, social
computing services, search, analytics, etc.
The organization creates intranets, extranets, mash-ups, self-service enterprise portals
(websites) and composite applications, with integrated collaboration and social services, like
Portlets, RSS, discussion forums, etc.
Competes in the Mash-up and Self-Service Portal market space
Example: Facebook, Vodafone, Verizon, Airtel

7. Show Oracle WebCenter Portal Architecture?

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8. What is Oracle WebCenter Framework?

Content integration
 JCR 170 support
 Several content repositories
Portlets
 Consumable portlets
 Portlet containers for
JSR 168/PDK-Java
 JSF-Portlet Bridge
 Out-of-the-box portlets
Run-time customization

9. What is Oracle WebCenter Portal Services?

A complete set of complementary services that enables you to embed Web 2.0 communication
and collaboration services directly into an ADF application.

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10. What is Oracle WebCenter Portal Spaces?

A prebuilt application that provides an online environment for social networking, communication,
collaboration, and personal productivity
Instant communities
Team sites
Portals

11. What are the different types of Oracle WebCenter Spaces?

12. What is Oracle WebCenter Portal Composer?

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Oracle Composer provides a runtime editing tool that enables business users to edit application
pages.
Run-time customization performed in the browser, in-place
 Rich, intuitive user experience
 Drag-and-drop
Typical operations:
 Browse and add resources to pages
 Rearrange page layout
 Set page and component properties
 Wire components together
Changes stored in MDS
Page creation API

13. Name a few components used for run-time editing with Oracle
Composer?
Panel customizable, Show Detail Frame, Custom Actions, Layout Customizable.

14. What is MDS?

MDS or Metadata Repository is the repository for metadata of certain deployed applications. When
the user commits run-time changes, they are stored and deploys an MDS on the server.
Stores changes of ADF Faces pages
 Separate XML documents
 Only the changes are stored
 Supports attribute modification and insert/remove/move/reparent of elements
Merges based on context when rendering a page
 The deployed page becomes the base document.
 Modifications come from MDS.
Offers layered customization
Provides a persistent store
 File System
 Database Schema

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15. What is the difference between portals and pagelets?

A pagelet is a reusable user interface component similar to a portlet, but while portlets were
designed specifically for portals, pagelets can be run on any web page, including within a portal
or other web application.

16. Is it a mandate to configure security in your WebCenter portal

application always?
No, if the developer does not configure the security in WebCenter, the ADF security gets
configured by default. As part of this, a default username/password is automatically created. Also,
it provides default Login and Logout pages.

17. What is the Portal Web Assets project?

It is a project by default that comes whenever we created a WebCenter application. It is used to
store the static content of the particular project like images, HTML. we can also run this project
in other servers independently to reduce the burden on the main application server. To do so we
have to remove the dependencies.

18. What is the use of PortalWebAssets in WebCenter portal application?

PortalWebAssets is used to separate all the static resources in the application like HTML, image
files, etc.

19. Can you rename the PortalWebAssets folder?

Yes, it can be renamed.

20. What is a Portlet?

A remote Web component that renders information in HTML format
Portlets
 Render dynamic content
 Provide their own user interface
 Allow customization and personalization
 Are reusable

21. Portlet Overview?

Register the producer, providing a URL endpoint for the portlet producer.
Drag the portlet to the page.

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22. What is inter-portlet communication?

Inter-portlet communication is achieved when an action in one portlet triggers a response in the
second portlet. It’s a communication bridge between the two portlets. For eg, one portlet contains
a checkbox containing a list of products. When I choose a product from the list and click on submit,
the other portlet displays the details of the respective product.

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23. What is Oracle WebCenter Content?

Provides unified repository to store unstructured contents, documents, images, rich media,
records, etc.
 has the capability of creating, and publishing business-user websites focused on
targeted audiences
 manage end-to-end content lifecycle from creation to archiving
 automate business processes with pre-built enterprise application integrations
 allow websites to dump files in and have them be accessible to business users or other
WebCenter applications
Competes in the Enterprise Content Management market space
Example: provides contents to WC Sites and WC Portal

24. Oracle WebCenter Content Architecture?

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25. What is JCR?

JCR or Java Content Repository API adapters enable the user to access data stored in content
management systems, such as Oracle WebCenter Content, Oracle Portal, or even your file system,
available to your application.

26. How do you decide whether the application should be deployed as an EAR
or a WAR?
If the application contains run-time customizations using MDS, it must be bundled as an EAR. For
a simple WebCenter portal application with no such customizations, WAR can be created.

27. What is the purpose of jazn-data.xml?

This file is used for defining the permissions and privileges for various groups of users on various
task flows created in the application.

28. What is the policy store and identity store in OID?

Identity Store is used to store information about users and groups while the Policy Store is used
to store information about security policies.

29. What is a Resource Catalog?

Resource catalog is used to store some reusable components like pages, task flow, images, etc.
which can be added at run time.

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