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Seamless Integrations between WebCenter Content, Site Studio, and WebCenter Sites
The document discusses the integration of Oracle's WebCenter Sites and WebCenter Content, highlighting their roles in enterprise content management and web experience management. It covers architecture, rendering processes, existing integration options, and new features like asset synchronization and external repositories. Recommendations for implementation and practical considerations for choosing between WebCenter solutions are also provided.
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Seamless Integrations between WebCenter Content, Site Studio, and WebCenter Sites
- 1. Seamless Integrations Between WebCenterSITES and CONTENT Brian “Bex” Huff – Bezzotech Tony Field – Function1
- 2. Agenda Overviewof SITES and CONTENT Why should they be integrated? Rendering CONTENT assets in SITES Existing and forthcoming approaches Recommendations For the latest version of this presentation, go to SlideShare: http://slideshare.com/bexmex 2
- 3. CONTENT, SITES, orPORTAL? WebCenter CONTENT (UCM / Site Studio) • Single source of truth for enterprise content WebCenter SITES (FatWire) • Web experience management WebCenter PORTAL • Application Integration When to use which? • Oracle official direction statement • Practical considerations: Where is your biggest investment? 33
- 4. WebCenter CONTENT Base content management platform • Java application, running in WebLogic Dozens of integration points with back-end systems • LDAP, BPEL, ESB, SOA, Portal • Enterprise Applications: EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel • Over 50 ways to integrate (and growing) Content centric applications built with same framework: • Web Content Management (Site Studio) • Digital Asset Management • Imaging and Process Management 4
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- 6. WebCenter SITES Oracle’s Web Experience Management platform Like Site Studio, but with more engagement points: • User engagement, recommendations, polling • High performance distributed cache • Content targeting and optimization • Easy end-user contribution, security, and workflows • Out-of-the-box social integration (Facebook, Twitter) Architecture basics: • Java/JSP/Taglibrary based • Database repository for web assets • Smart cache for high scalability 6
- 7. Site Studio Resources Project File Sub-template Section Page Template File Element Definition File Data Placeholders File Elements Placeholder Definition File Region Region Definition Template Region File File 7
- 8. WebCenter SITES Resources Attribute Asset Rendering Template Asset Type 8
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- 10. Site Studio forExternal Applications (SSXA) 10
- 11. SSXA Web Servicesfor Site Studio Assets SSXA is a set of APIs to view and edit WCM content remotely • Core services available in 10gR4 • CONTENT 11g has connectors for JEE Application servers WCM_PLACEHOLDER • dataFileDocName : content ID of the item to render into HTML • placeholderDefinitionDocName : content ID of the placeholder definition • optional parameters: same as wcmPlaceholder IdocScript WCM_BEGIN_EDIT_SESSION • dDocName : content ID of the item to edit • Opens up the Site Studio Contributor out-of-context for any data file • Example: doc-info page for any data file 11
- 12. Rendering Site StudioPlaceholders All information stored in the XML Site Studio Project File Maps a URL to a nodeId for the site Each nodeId has placeholders, with data files, and templates Request comes in to render a URL Site Studio maps the URL to a nodeId Site Studio begins rendering the page template for that nodeId Placeholders are rendered based on data file and region template To render a page, you only need Project File and Page Template • All else handled via WCM_PLACEHODLER service • Or wcmPlacehodler IdcoScript 12
- 13. Site Studio Resources Page Template with placeholders <div id="mainContent"><!--$wcmPlaceholder('mainContent')--></div> Data File for the placeholder <dataFile> <title>This is my title</title> <body>This is the body of my news item</body> </dataFile> Region Template for the placeholder <h1><!--$wcmElement('title')--></h1> <div id='body'><!--$wcmElement('body')--></div> 13
- 14. WebCenter SITES Architecture Management Delivery … … Mobility Server Mobility Server Mobile Community Server Community Server Delivery WEM WEM Gadget Server Framework Gadget Server Framework Satellite Site Server Visitors Content Engage Engage Managers Content Server Content Server Content Optimizer Content Integration Platform File System … Documentum SharePoint 14 14
- 15. Typical WebCenter SITESDeployment 15 15
- 16. Rendering SITES Assets Request passed from app server to Satellite servlet (caching system) Satellite sends request to Content Server (yes, another Content Server) Content Server indirectly looks up the element (JSP), dispatches it, and invokes it. Asset data is loaded in the element, then displayed • MVC approach was built as a retrofit • (not all elements have to be JSP – come can be thin XML that calls into a proper dispatcher, which in turn calls back into a JSP) Rendered markup is often cached 16
- 17. Trivial SITES full-pagetemplate 17
- 18. Current Integration Options Good news: CONTENT has many integration options WebCenter SITES is Java/JSP based Multiple integration options with CONTENT • RIDC or SOAP • Tag libraries based on RIDC/SOAP • Scheduled migration of content into SITES database as assets Still not many common patterns • Management of synched content requires business rules • Where should my content live? • How do I keep it up to date? 18
- 19. Roll-Your-Own SSXA Front-end Java controller (Spring, Struts, ADF, etc.) • Parses project file, maps URL paths into nodeId • Uses nodeId to find placeholders, data files, and templates Use JSP-based page templates • Very simplistic tags / attributes for placeholders Use OpenWCM web services to render existing assets • WCM_PLACEHODLER • Use EHCache to guarantee performance Link back to WebCenter content for editing assets 19
- 20. Render SSXA ContentThrough SITES! Using controller infrastructure (like GSF), can plug in custom SSXA controller • Map a friendly URL to a Site Studio Section • Call WCM_PLACEHODLER to render placeholders • Display them on a SITES template! • Only valid for placeholders, not fragments What about editing the content? • Just have a link to WCM_BEGIN_EDIT_SESSION • Visible upon Ctrl-Shift-F5 of course Use built-in ehCache for optimum performance Be sure to do URL forwarding for link management 20
- 21. New Feature: WebCenterCONTENT Connector Assets tagged in CONTENT can be synched to SITES Synched content is treated like a regular asset in SITES • Read-only • Loaded into hard-coded taxonomy based on rules Sync is scheduled to search WebCenter CONTENT periodically Detailed logging, exception handling, and reporting all provided Available in 11.1.1.8 (summer-ish hopefully) Screenshots! 21
- 22. Tagging “Sync toSites” 22
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- 27. Business User Experience– Totally Transparent! 27
- 28. New SITES Feature:External Repositories! A “proxy” asset is a record in SITES about an asset • But the asset does not exist in the SITES database • Sometimes there is no need for the data to be copied • Sometimes there is too much data to copy Goal: very large media delivery web sites • You wouldn‘t put YouTube videos in a database • But, you would put metadata about those videos in a database CONTENT is no different • Sometimes assets belong in SITES • Sometimes assets belong in CONTENT Allows external repositories to be represented in SITES • E.g. Library holdings, document repository, product catalog, photos, etc. 28
- 29. Migration In Stages 1.Site Studio renders and delivers content • Current state 1.SITES delivers Site Studio placeholders as markup • Custom SSXA controller in SITES 1.SITES delivers and renders Site Studio content • Developer ports Site Studio Region Templates to SITES • Content is retrieved from Site Studio at render time • Data Files rendered via native SITES templates 1. CONTENT Data Files migrated to SITES assets, two options: • Connector is used: content is copied over to an asset in SITES • External Repository: content remains in CONTENT 29
- 30. Additional Bonus Integrations Once Integrated with CONTENT, SITES gains for free: SOA BPEL BPM ESB SOAP RIDC Anything else CONTENT integrates with SITES connector via Content Integration Platform Will External Repository Support supersede this? 30
- 31. Questions? Bex Huff My Company: http://bezzotech.com My Blog: http://bexhuff.com My Self: bex@bezzotech.com Tony Field My Company: http://function1.com Our Blog: http://www.function1.com/blog/ My Self: tony@function1.com 31