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Oracle WebCenter Spaces provides framework and resources that ready for business users to use after installation and configurations. But we all know the default look and feel of the site is really not appealing. I’ve seen prospective customers direct eyes on the WebCenter great features but step back because of the look and feel. I will have to confirm them that the site can be skinned and customized to whatever you want the site to look like. And that’s true, there are indeed great looking sites out there using sophisticated CSS and JavaScript (e.g. JQuery). Those sites are mostly designed from a HTML markup perspective and mixed with ADF components, which could make the source codes of the pages hard to read and maintain. Hard to read? Who cares, as long as it works for what the customer wants. But one of the drawbacks I’ve seen and it’s worthy to mention is it breaks the partial page rendering because of the mix of html and ADF components. Most of the pretty WebCenter public sites...

I’d like to share my own “Install Notes” on step-to-step how to build your own WebCenter Suite on a VM from scratch. If you follow my notes here, you should have your own WebCenter work station in a few hours. The install notes here are based on the Linux 64 OS which is the industry standard. Let’s begin. Software needed (can be obtained from e-delivery) a.        Oracle Linux64 bit (ver6.2 or whatever latest) b.       Oracle VirtualBox c.        Oracle DB XE11g Linux 64 d.       Oracle RCU e.       Oracle Weblogic Server 11g Linux f.         Oracle WebCenter 11g g.        Oracle UCM 11g h.       Oracle Web Tier 11g Create a new Virtual Disk a.        Install VirtualBox on your host. Start the virtualbox and crea...

Since WebCenter PS5, Oracle brings lots of standard task flows inside WebCenter Spaces. Some of them are already registered within the resource catalog and ready to use, most of them are also ready but you need to add them to the resource catalog first for business users to utilize. But from a developer standpoint, you may be interested in reviewing the source codes of the standard task flow shipped with Oracle WebCenter Spaces. Today I will show you how to locate the EAR or WAR file and take the advantages of build-in task flows. After the Oracle WebCenter Spaces is installed, go to the following directory and you will find the relevant EAR and WAR files are already installed. In my case, it’s WebCenter PS5 but it’s applicable to other 11g releases. $FMW_HOME/<WebCenter Instance Name>/webcenter/modules/oracle.webcenter.spaces_11.1.1 The one we are interested is the one at the bottom ‘oracle.webcenter.spaces.webapp.war’ file. You can ftp the...