Webcenter Portal PS5

Webcenter PS5 is released on February 22nd 2012. Here I am listing a few basic overview of the PS5 features and will add more details later.

Oracle Webcenter PS5 contains product enhancements and customer bug fixes from Webcenter PS3/PS4.
Webcenter PS5 components :

1. Webcenter Portal
2. Webcenter Content
3. Webcenter Sites
4. Webcenter Services (Networks and Collaboration).

Using Oracle Webcenter portal, we can develop internet sites, intranet sites, social networking sites. Oracle Webcenter portal components are

1. Oracle Webcenter Portal Framework
2. Oracle Webcenter Portal Spaces
3. Oracle Webcenter Portal services
4. Oracle Composer - which embedded with all of the other components.

The main high level information about webcenter PS5 is

Enhancements :

1. UCM is rebranded to Oracle Webcenter Content in the implementation level.
2. Dynamic roles based on the Oracle Entitlement Server Integration.
3. More features in Real time Collaboration.
4. Webcenter Sites
5. Adding pagelets in webcenter sites.

BPM Taskflows in Webcenter Spaces

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Disable the Flash usage in Webcenter PS3 Spaces - Manually Editing the webcenter.ear

1.      Start the VM

2.      Locate the webcenter.ear (/u01/app/oracle/product/PS3RC8/fmwhome/Oracle_WC1/archives/applications/ webcenter.ear)

3.      Take the backup of the webcenter.ear and copy to windows machine.

4.      Extract webcenter.ear (eg:  7-zip à Open Archive).

5.      Locate adf-config.xml (adf\META-INF\)

6.      Edit adf-config.xml (Right click on adf-config.xml, and select ‘Edit’)

7.      Navigate to the end of the file and point the cursor before </adf-config> entry

8.      Enter the following entry to that file,                   <adf-faces-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/config">     

<flash-player-usage>disabled</flash-player-usage>   

</adf-faces-config>

9.      Save and close the file.

10.  Click on ‘ok’ to the confirmation dialog.

11.  Close the 7-zip window.

12.  Copy the changed webcenter.ear to the exact location (/u01/app/oracle/product/PS3RC8/fmwhome/Oracle_WC1/archives/applications/ webcenter.ear).

13.  Stop all the services.

14.  Restart the VM / virtual box instance.

15.  Start all the services.

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