ORA SPACE

I recently attended Oracle WebCenter 10g R3 Briefing conducted by Oracle. Putting a glimpse of that session:

Oracle WebCenter (a new member in Oracle Fusion Middleware family) is added as an extension to Oracle JDeveloper. It consists of following components:

Oracle WebCenter Framework – A Oracle ADF based user interface technology that can be used to embed AJAX-based components, portlets, content.
Oracle WebCenter Studio and Oracle WebCenter Composer – Tools that can be used to build and deploy user interface and business flows.
Oracle WebCenter Anywhere – Developing and deploying interfaces for multiple devices e.g. mobule devices and desktop applications like MS Office.
Oracle WebCenter Services – Allow to use Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, Oracle Content Database, and Oracle Records Database, and Web 2.0 capabilities.
Oracle WebCenter Spaces – Meant for group collaboration and communications.

Oracle WebCenter is considered as a common framework for Fusion Applications. Although it makes use of ADF (Oracle’s Application Development Framework), but is based on standards e.g. SOA, Web 2.0, JSR 168, WSRP 1.0 and 2.0. Using JSF Portlet Bridge developers can publish any Java Server Faces application as a portlet.

Oracle WebCenter has a capability for Content Integration using content components (based on JSR 227 Data Controls) to directly access content from a given repository and display in personalized manner using JSF View Components.

Oracle WebCenter Communication Services offers Threaded Discussions, Presence Server and Instant Messaging (Oracle Communicator).

Links: Oracle WebCenter Overview