9i Portal - PL/SQL Portlets (O243) Training Course

Training Course Objectives

This course has been designed to follow-on from the iTrain 9iAS Portal Developer course.

The course introduces the integrated PL/SQL portlet development environment and covers all the practical skills involved with the design, development and deployment of PL/SQL based portlets through the Oracle Portlet toolkit.

A practical hands-on course, students will learn the full range of capabilities and skills within the Oracle Portal environment needed to manage and deploy enterprise wide PL/SQL based applications

Who Should Attend

• Web Page Developers
• Web Masters
• Web Designers
• Web Technicians
• Web Support Engineers
• Network Engineers
• Oracle Developers
• Oracle Analyst/Programmers

Training Course Prerequisites

• Internet Fundamentals
• Oracle 9i PL/SQL (O020)
• Oracle 9iAS(rel 2)Admin (O950)
• View Learning Path

Training Course Duration

2 Days

Training Course Contents

Intro to Oracle9iAS Portal

• Oracle9iAS Portal architecture
• Oracle9iAS Portal framework
• What is a portlet provider?
• Portlets and Providers
• Development Choices
• Oracle9iAS Portal Developer Kit
• The PDK-PL/SQL Deployment Environment

Organize & Code DB Providers

• Identifying framework events
• Registering and Deregistering a Provider
• Specifying Portlet Information
• Adding a portlet to a portal page
• Rendering a portlet
• Removing a portlet from a portal page
• Creating and managing database providers

Organize & Code DB Portlets

• Organizing database portlets in PL/SQL packages
• Identifying the portlet methods
• Identifying portlet show modes
• Coding portlet show modes
• Generating provider and portlet PL/SQL packages

Passing Parameters to Portlets

• Specifying portlet parameters in the URL
• Specifying multiple parameter values
• Scoping portlet parameters
• Retrieving parameter names and values

Accessing Portal Session Info

• Session Storage
• Accessing session storage objects
• Loading session objects
• Saving and dropping session objects
• Session security and visibility
• Session context service and API

Customizing Portlets

• Organizing portlet preferences
• Accessing preference storage
• Creating and deleting preference paths and preference names
• Maintaining preference values
• Implementing portlet customization
• Preference Storage Utilities

Handling Errors

• The error stack
• Adding error messages to the error stack
• Managing the error stack
• Displaying error messages in full screen or inline
• Raising exceptions

Providing Portlet Security

• Web-based authentication
• Implementing lightweight users
• Providing secure access to portal resources
• Managing users and groups
• Portal privileges and Access Control List (ACL)
• Managing application privileges
• Implementing security services

Next Available Dates

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