Oracle WebCenter Portal: Pagelet Producer – What’s New in 11.1.1.6.0 Release
- by kellsey.ruppel
Igor Plyakov, Sr. Principal Product Marketing Manager is back to share what's new in Oracle WebCenter Portal: Pagelet Producer.
In February 2012 Oracle released 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6.0)
for WebCenter Portal. Pagelet Producer (aka Ensemble) that came out with this
release added support for several new capabilities that are described in this
post.
As of 11.1.1.5.0 release the Pagelet Producer can expose
WSRP and JPDK portlets as pagelets that can then be consumed in any portal or
any third-party application that does not have a WSRP consumer. Now Pagelet
Producer team is working on simplifying use of pagelets in WebCenter Sites. To
expose WSRP portlets a new Producer should be registered with Pagelet Producer
which can be done using Enterprise Manager, WLST or the Pagelet Producer
Administration Console (for details see Section
25.9 of Administrator’s Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal). If the producer
requires authentication, Pagelet Producer allows you to select and use one of
standard WSS token profiles. After
registration is finished a new resource is created and automatically populated
with pagelets that represent the portlets associated with the WSRP
endpoint. For 11.1.1.6.0 release we
completed extensive testing of consuming all WebCenter Services that are
exposed as WSRP portlets by E2.0 Producer and delivery them as pagelets to
WebCenter Interaction portal.
In Pagelet Producer 11.1.1.6.0 release we added OpenSocial container
that allows consuming gadgets from other OpenSocial containers, e.g. iGoogle,
and expose them as pagelets. You can also use Pagelet Producer to host OpenSocial
gadgets that could leverage OpenSocial APIs that it supports – People,
Activities, Appdata and Pub-Sub features. Note that People and Activities
expose the People Connections and Activity Stream from WebCenter Portal, i.e.
to use these features Pagelet Producer requires connection to WebCenter Portal
schema. Pub-Sub allows leveraging OpenAJAX Hub API for inter-gadget
communication.
In addition to these major new additions in Pagelet Producer
11.1.1.6.0 release we also extended several functional modules:
The Clipping module was extended to support
clipping of multiple regions on web resource page and then re-assembly of these
separately clipped regions into a single pagelet.
The auto-login feature can now be applied to web
resources protected with Kerberos authentication; you would find this new
functionality handy for consuming SharePoint web parts
The logging module now supports full HTTP
traffic between the Pagelet Producer and proxied web resource.
At last, as the rest of WebCenter Portal stack the Pagelet
Producer 11.1.1.6.0 can run on IBM WebSphere Application Server.
