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Displaying ECM Content In
WebCenter Sites
Bex Huff – Bezzotech
Tony Field – Function1
Agenda
Overview of SITES and CONTENT
Why should they be integrated?
Rendering CONTENT assets in SITES
Existing and forthcoming approaches
Recommendations
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CONTENT, SITES, or PORTAL?
WebCenter CONTENT (UCM / Site Studio)
• Single source of truth for enterprise content
WebCenter SITES (FatWire)
• Web experience management
WebCenter PORTAL
• Application Integration
When to use which?
• Oracle official direction statement
• Practical considerations: Where is your biggest investment?
WebCenter CONTENT
Base content management platform
• Java application, running in WebLogic
Dozens of integration points with back-end systems
• LDAP, BPEL, ESB, SOA, Portal
• Enterprise Applications: EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel
• Over 50 ways to integrate (and growing)
Content centric applications built with same framework:
• Web Content Management (Site Studio)
• Digital Asset Management
• Imaging and Process Management
WebCenter CONTENT Architecture
WebCenter SITES
• Oracle’s Web Experience Management platform
• Like Site Studio, but with more engagement points:
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User engagement, recommendations, polling
High performance distributed cache
Content targeting and optimization
Easy end-user contribution, security, and workflows
Out-of-the-box social integration (Facebook, Twitter)
• Architecture basics:
• Java/JSP/Taglibrary based
• Database repository for web assets
• Smart cache for high scalability
Site Studio Resources
Project File
Sub-template
Section
Page Template File
Data
File
Placeholders
Placeholder
Definition File
Region
Template
File
Region
Element
Definition
File
Elements
Region
Definition
File
WebCenter SITES Resources
Attribute
Asset
Asset
Type
Rendering
Template
Site Studio Architecture
Site Studio for External Applications (SSXA)
SSXA Web Services for Site Studio Assets
SSXA is a set of APIs to view and edit WCM content
remotely
• Core services available in 10gR4
• CONTENT 11g has connectors for JEE Application servers
WCM_PLACEHOLDER
• dataFileDocName : content ID of the item to render into HTML
• placeholderDefinitionDocName : content ID of the placeholder
• optional parameters: same as wcmPlaceholder IdocScript
WCM_BEGIN_EDIT_SESSION
• dDocName : content ID of the item to edit
• Opens up the Site Studio Contributor out-of-context for data files
• Example: doc-info page for any data file
Rendering Site Studio Placeholders
All information stored in the XML Site Studio Project File
Maps a URL to a nodeId for the site
Each nodeId has placeholders, with data files, and templates
Request comes in to render a URL
Site Studio maps the URL to a nodeId
Site Studio begins rendering the page template for that nodeId
Placeholders are rendered based on data file and region
template
• To render a page, you only need Project File and Page
Template
• All else handled via WCM_PLACEHODLER service
• Or wcmPlacehodler IdocScript
Site Studio Resources
• Page Template with placeholders
<div id="mainContent"><!--$wcmPlaceholder('mainContent')--></div>
• Data File for the placeholder
<dataFile>
<title>This is my title</title>
<body>This is the body of my news item</body>
</dataFile>
• Region Template for the placeholder
<h1><!--$wcmElement('title')--></h1>
<div id='body'><!--$wcmElement('body')--></div>
WebCenter SITES Architecture
Management
Delivery
Community Server
WEM
Framework
Content
Managers
WEM
Framework
Gadget Server
Engage
Community Server
Gadget Server
Engage
Content Server
Content Server
Content Optimizer
Content Integration Platform
Documentum
SharePoint
File System
…
Mobile
Delivery
Satellite
Server
Site
Visitors
Typical WebCenter SITES Deployment
Rendering SITES Assets
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Request passed from app server to Satellite
servlet (caching system)
Satellite sends request to Content Server (yes,
another Content Server)
Content Server indirectly looks up the element
(JSP), dispatches it, and invokes it.
Asset data is loaded in the element, then
displayed
• MVC approach was built as a retrofit
• (not all elements have to be JSP – some
can be thin XML that calls into a proper
dispatcher, which in turn calls back into a
JSP)
Rendered markup is often cached
Trivial SITES full-page template
Current Integration Options
Good news: CONTENT has many integration options
WebCenter SITES is Java/JSP based
Multiple integration options with CONTENT
• RIDC or SOAP
• Tag libraries based on RIDC/SOAP
• Scheduled migration of content into SITES database as assets
Still not many common patterns
• Management of synched content requires business rules
• Where should my content live?
• How do I keep it up to date?
Roll-Your-Own SSXA
Front-end Java controller (Spring, Struts, ADF, etc.)
• Parses project file, maps URL paths into nodeId
• Uses nodeId to find placeholders, data files, and templates
Use JSP-based page templates
• Very simplistic tags / attributes for placeholders
Use OpenWCM web services to render existing assets
• WCM_PLACEHODLER
• Use EHCache to guarantee performance
Link back to WebCenter content for editing assets
Render SSXA Content Through SITES!
Using controller infrastructure (like GSF), can plug in
custom SSXA controller
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Map a friendly URL to a Site Studio Section
Call WCM_PLACEHODLER to render placeholders
Display them on a SITES template!
Only valid for placeholders, not fragments
What about editing the content?
• Just have a link to WCM_BEGIN_EDIT_SESSION
• Visible upon Ctrl-Shift-F5 of course
Use built-in ehCache for optimum performance
Be sure to do URL forwarding for link management
11.1.1.8 Feature: WebCenter CONTENT Connector
Assets tagged in CONTENT can be synched to SITES
Synched content is treated like a regular asset in SITES
• Read-only
• Loaded into hard-coded taxonomy based on rules
Sync is scheduled to search WebCenter CONTENT
periodically
Detailed logging, exception handling, and reporting all provided
Available in 11.1.1.8 (right now!!!)
Walk-thru!
Tagging “Sync to Sites”
UI Configuration
Selection Rules
Taxonomy Target Rules
Attribute Mapping
Business User Experience – Totally Transparent!
New SITES Feature: External Repositories!
• A “proxy” asset is a record in SITES about an asset
• But the asset does not exist in the SITES database
• Sometimes there is no need for the data to be copied
• Sometimes there is too much data to copy
• Goal: very large media delivery web sites
• You wouldn‘t put YouTube videos in a database
• But, you would put metadata about those videos in a database
• CONTENT is no different
• Sometimes assets belong in SITES
• Sometimes assets belong in CONTENT
• Allows external repositories to be represented in SITES
• Library holdings, document repository, product catalog, etc.
Migration In Stages
1. Site Studio renders and delivers content
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Current state
2. SITES delivers Site Studio placeholders as markup
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Custom SSXA controller in SITES
3. SITES delivers and renders Site Studio content
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Developer ports Site Studio Region Templates to SITES
Content is retrieved from Site Studio at render time
Data Files rendered via native SITES templates
4. CONTENT Data Files migrated to SITES assets:
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Connector is used: content is copied over to an asset in SITES
External Repository: content remains in CONTENT
Additional Bonus Integrations
Once Integrated with CONTENT, SITES gains for free:
SOA
BPEL
BPM
ESB
SOAP
RIDC
Anything else CONTENT integrates with
SITES connector via Content Integration Platform
Contrast with external repository support & CONTENT integration
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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Bex Huff
• Company: http://bezzotech.com
• Blog: http://bexhuff.com
• Self: [email protected]
Tony Field
• Company: http://function1.com
• Blog: http://www.function1.com/blog/
• Self: [email protected]
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