BEA WebLogic Portal 9/10: Develop Enterprise Portals

Description:

This course trains J2EE Web application developers how to create sophisticated enterprise portals using the core capabilities of BEA WebLogic Portal. This course leverages BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform to rapidly design and build interactive, content-driven portlets and covers both versions 9 and 10.

Learn to:

• Design, develop, and debug enterprise portals with BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform
• Build dynamic, interactive portlets using NetUI page flows
• Build federated portals using Web Services for Remote Portlet (WSRP) producers and consumers
• Organize, publish, and display information using a Content Management System (CMS)
• Rapidly build professional, collaborative portals with GroupSpace

Audience:

J2EE Developer

Objectives:

• Initialize a development environment for BEA WebLogic Portal
• Design, develop, and debug enterprise portals with BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform
• Customize the default appearance and behavior of a portal application
• Build interactive portlets using NetUI page flows
• Render dynamic Web content using BEA WebLogic Portal and NetUI JSP tag libraries
• Describe the benefits of federated portals and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Build federated portals using WSRP
• Organize, publish, and display information using a Content Management System (CMS)
• Integrate a third-party CMS with BEA WebLogic Portal
• Rapidly build collaborative portals with GroupSpace

Prerequisites:

Required Prerequisites:
BEA WebLogic Server 9/10: Program J2EE Servlets & JSPs in Eclipse

Suggested Prerequisites:
Working knowledge of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Familiarity with essential concepts of BEA WebLogic Portal

Topics:

BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform fundamentals

Portal design and development

Portal look-and-feel

NetUI portlets

Inter-portlet communication

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) portlets

Federated portals

WSRP

Virtual content repository

Portal administration fundamentals

Communities fundamentals

GroupSpace portlets