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Welcome to Oracle WebCenter

Oracle WebCenter

Oracle WebCenter is the set of components that you use to create social applications, enterprise portals, collaborative communities, composite applications, and Internet/intranet web sites.

Oracle Application Development Framework

Oracle ADF provides the common development framework for all Oracle Fusion Middleware user interfaces and Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle WebCenter Portal Framework

Oracle WebCenter Portal Framework is a modern portal framework that speeds delivery of portals and websites and extends the capabilities of traditional enterprise portals.

Oracle WebCenter Spaces

Oracle WebCenter Spaces is an out-of-the-box application that brings you the latest technology in terms of social networking, communication, collaboration, and personal productivity with no development effort.

Mashups and Composite Applications

Combine existing enterprise functions into a new application.

Oracle Composer

Oracle Composer enables runtime customization and personalization of JSF applications created with Oracle WebCenter Portal Framework.

WebCenter Services

WebCenter Services provide a variety of Web 2.0 content management, search, collaboration, and communication services to extend the functionality of your applications and enrich the end user experience.

Other Key WebCenter Features

Other key WebCenter features include the Oracle WebCenter Portlet Producer, Oracle WebCenter Pagelet Producer, and Oracle WebCenter Personalization.

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Oracle WebCenter Documentation

Go to the Oracle WebCenter documentation library

The core WebCenter Portal Framework features include:

Navigation Models: Provide back-end data to the navigation user interfaces that are displayed in the portal. Navigation models are highly flexible, with a wide set of APIs that control navigation to pages, task flows, external sites, portlets, and specific content items. These APIs let you control all aspects of the way the navigation user interface is rendered. For example, you can add a tree navigation UI by including a simple EL expression in a portal page or page template. WebCenter also provides runtime tooling for configuring and modifying navigation models.
Page Hierarchies: Traditional ADF page security allows you to secure your application on a page-by-page basis. However, portals typically include many – in some cases hundreds – of pages, and it's not always practical to specify access to individual pages. The page hierarchy organizes pages into a tree structure, with a parent-child relationship between pages. This hierarchical structure allows security settings to be inherited from pages to sub pages.
Delegated Administration: Delegated administration provides a mechanism for securing portal resources based on user roles. For example, you can allow users in one role (managers, for instance) to access all portal features, but deny certain features to users in another role (employees, for instance). Page hierarchies are the primary container for delegated administration. In both the design time and runtime environments, you apply delegated administration to a page hierarchy, and the specific security assignments are automatically propagated down through the hierarchy from pages to sub pages.
Customization: Users can customize their own portal pages by, for example, adding or removing portlets, changing skins, or rearranging the portal layout.
Page Templates: Page templates allow you to define entire page layouts and apply them to pages to create a consistent layout across the portal. When you create pages using a template, they all inherit the defined layout.
Skins: Skins define the colors, fonts, images, and some dimensional details like heights and widths, of your application components to present a consistent look and feel across the portal.
Catalogs and the Catalog Registry: Catalogs are arbitrary collections of task flows, portlets, content items, and other elements that can be added by administrators and authorized users to an application at runtime. A catalog registry defines the set of items that are available for inclusion in the Resource Catalog, a collection of components that can be added to an application at runtime.