Weblogic 8.1 Portal Development Course

Weblogic Portal is an enterprise scalable portal platform. Portals allow organizations to build a consistent web presentation for their applications that are deployed on both intra and internets. This class will guide developers through the process of building all the necessary components of a portal application within Weblogic. Participants will also spend some time administrating portals while deploying campaigns and targeted presentations for particular types of users. This is a hands-on learning experience, with each participant having their own Weblogic Server

This course is designed for developers who have familiarity with building and deploying JSP and Servlet based web applications.

Upon completion of this course the participant will be able to:
> Describe Portal Application development
> Design, create and deploy enterprise scalable portals on Weblogic
> Create portlets to allow existing applications to be surfaced simply and easily
> Define PageFlows and surface them in a portlet
> Configure custom look and feel components like skins and skeletons
> Create users and groups for targeting campaigns
> Secure applications based on a users login credentials
> Tune a Weblogic server for maximum performance

Intro to Portal
What is a portal
Portal History
Portal Objectives
Portal Tools Overview
Workshop Introduction
Administrative Portal Introduction
Walk Through Sample Portal

Weblogic Workshop Introduction
Applications
Projects
Project Components
IDE Properties
Walk Through building a simple JSP (Date Display JSP)
Configuring Server Properties
Setting up Weblogic Domains Workshop
Deployment
Testing, Debugging

Portal components
Portal file
Portal Properties
Portal Build Properties
Desktops
Desktop Properties
Books
Book Properties
Layouts

J2EE Web Applications
J2EE Components
Servlets
JSP
PageFlow Introduction
Workshop Controls
Portlets

Weblogic PageFlows
Introduction to PageFlows
Introduction to MVC
PageFlow Components
PageFlow Controller
Action Objects
PageFlow Pages

Portlets
Introduction
Portlet Files
Common Portlet Types
PageFlow Portlets
WebService Portlets
Walk Through Simple WebService Portlet

Portal Look and Feel
Layouts
Layout Managers
Grid
Border
Flow
Navigation Menus
Skins
Skin Themes
Skeleton
Skeleton Themes

Portal Administration
Portal Management
Administrative Portal
Content Management
User Management
Interaction Management

Portal Security
Introduction
Sign-on
User Logon Control
Authentication
Unified User Profiles, Logon portlet

Portal Interaction
Content Management
Personalization
Campaigns
Campaign Types
Segments
Content Selectors
Backing Files

Participants should have a Java development background. Familiarity with building and deploying JSP and Servlet based web applications is essential. Some background familiarity with Weblogic as a platform is helpful, but not necessary.