Seamless Integrations between WebCenter Content, Site Studio, and WebCenter Sites

Seamless Integrations Between
WebCenter SITES and CONTENT

Brian “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

 For the latest version of this presentation, go to SlideShare:
 http://slideshare.com/bexmex

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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?

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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

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WebCenter CONTENT Architecture

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WebCenter SITES

 Oracle’s Web Experience Management platform

 Like Site Studio, but with more engagement points:
• 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

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Site Studio Resources

Project File
Sub-template
Section

Page Template File Element
Definition
File
Data Placeholders
File
Elements
Placeholder
Definition File
Region
Region Definition
Template Region File
File

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WebCenter SITES Resources

Attribute Asset
Rendering
Template
Asset
Type

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Site Studio Architecture

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Site Studio for External Applications (SSXA)

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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 definition
• 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 any data file
• Example: doc-info page for any data file

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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 IdcoScript

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Site Studio Resources

 Page Template with placeholders
<div id="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></h1>
<div id='body'></div>

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WebCenter SITES Architecture

Management Delivery

… …

Mobility Server Mobility Server
Mobile
Community Server Community Server Delivery
WEM
WEM Gadget Server
Framework
Gadget Server
Framework Satellite Site
Server Visitors
Content Engage Engage
Managers
Content Server Content Server

Content Optimizer
Content Integration Platform

File System …
Documentum SharePoint

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Typical WebCenter SITES Deployment

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Rendering SITES Assets

 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 – come
can be thin XML that calls into a proper
dispatcher, which in turn calls back into a
JSP)
 Rendered markup is often cached 16

Trivial SITES full-page template

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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?

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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

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Render SSXA Content Through SITES!

 Using controller infrastructure (like GSF), can plug in custom
SSXA controller
• 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
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New 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 (summer-ish hopefully)

 Screenshots!

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Tagging “Sync to Sites”

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UI Configuration

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Taxonomy Target Rules

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Attribute Mapping

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Business User Experience – Totally Transparent!

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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
• E.g. Library holdings, document repository, product catalog, photos, etc.

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Migration In Stages

1.Site Studio renders and delivers content
• Current state

1.SITES delivers Site Studio placeholders as markup
• Custom SSXA controller in SITES

1.SITES delivers and renders Site Studio content
• Developer ports Site Studio Region Templates to SITES
• Content is retrieved from Site Studio at render time
• Data Files rendered via native SITES templates

1. CONTENT Data Files migrated to SITES assets, two options:
• Connector is used: content is copied over to an asset in SITES
• External Repository: content remains in CONTENT
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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
 Will External Repository Support supersede this?

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Questions?

Bex Huff

My Company: http://bezzotech.com
My Blog: http://bexhuff.com
My Self: bex@bezzotech.com

Tony Field

My Company: http://function1.com
Our Blog: http://www.function1.com/blog/
My Self: tony@function1.com

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