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Intro to Oracle 10gAS Portal

•Oracle 10gAS Portal architecture
•Oracle 10gAS Portal framework
•What is a portlet provider?
•Portlets and Providers
•Development Choices
•Oracle 10gAS Portal Developer Kit
•The PDK-PL/SQL Deployment Environment

Portal overview

•Getting familiar with the navigation terms, and terminology in portal
•Using wizard based components to build portlets
•Introduction various portal component like omniportlet, ultraseach and their usage
•Access control at various levels

Portal Administration overview

•Brief overview of Application server control console and administration
•Basic administrative tasks like users, group maintenance

Coding

•Database Providers and Portlets
•Identifying framework events
•Registering and Deregistering a Provider
•Specifying Portlet Information
•Adding a portlet to a portal page
•Rendering a portlet
•Removing a portlet from a portal page
•Creating and managing database providers

Database Portlets

•Organizing database portlets in PL/SQL packages
•Identifying the portlet methods
•Identifying portlet show modes
•Coding portlet show modes
•Generating provider and portlet PL/SQL packages

Passing Parameters to Portlets

•Specifying portlet parameters in the URL
•Specifying multiple parameter values
•Scoping portlet parameters
•Retrieving parameter names and values
•Portlet Caching
•Caching explained
•Portlet caching concepts
•Expiry-based caching
•Invalidation-based caching
•Validation-based caching

Accessing Portal Session

•Information
•Session Storage
•Accessing session storage objects
•Loading session objects
•Saving and dropping session objects
•Session security and visibility
•Session context service and API

Providing Portlet Security

•Web-based authentication
•Implementing lightweight users
•Providing secure access to portal resources
•Managing users and groups
•Portal privileges and Access Control List (ACL)
•Managing application privileges
•Implementing security services

Discoverer

Basics of Discoverer

•Discoverer ADMIN
•What is eul, Business Area?
•Creating and maintaining EUL
•Acquaintance with basic building blocks
•Creating folders, conditions, joins
•Item classes, hierarchies
•Managing security and privileges

Discoverer Plus
•Terms and terminologies
•Simple table report development
•Cross tab report creation
•Report Parameters
•Drilldown reports
•Summaries and Calculations

Advanced Topics

•Passing values to discoverer folder at runtime

Portal Integration

•Registration of discoverer portlet provider
•Types of discoverer portlets and their usage
•Publishing portlets on portal pages
•Creating public connections using AS control
•How to use connections while publishing discoverer portlets
•Using page parameters for discoverer reports
•Enabling SSO for discoverer viewer/plus
•Concept of SSO propagation for discoverer reports using VPD
•Customization and personalization for discoverer viewer user in portal