Development

Getting a Pulse on Your System: How to Build a System Health Indicator in Splunk

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on Friday, February 1, 2013 - 15:28 Operational Intelligence, Development Dashboards, query, search, singlevalue, Splunk

Welcome Splunkers! I hope everyone is having a great New Year. We certainly are, here at Function1. We just publicly released a beta version of our Splunk for Oracle WebLogic Server app to Splunkbase as mentioned in a recent post. As part of the Splunk products team at Function1, I'm always looking at new ideas and approaches in Splunk app development. As Splunk apps become more robust, they will...

WebCenter Sites CSDT tip: Recommended Order of @ALL_ASSETS for Error-free Imports

Posted by Somen De on Friday, January 18, 2013 - 15:06 Web Experience Management, Cool Tools, Development, Best Practices Cool Tools, CSDT, Development, FatWire, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Web Experience Management, WEM

As anyone who has worked with Oracle WebCenter Sites "Content Server Development Tools" (CSDT) already knows, the import process can get a little “tricky”, especially when trying to import "@ALL_ASSETS".

Regardless if you're operating from the command line or via Eclipse's CSDT plug-in, there are inevitable errors that occur because of the complexity of certain sites, and all the dependencies that arise between workspace resources.

When a CSDT import error occurs during “@ALL_ASSETS”, it’s typically difficult to pinpoint which specific element caused the error, and there’s...

CSDT Command throwing HTTP 401 Error

Posted by Mike Field on Friday, January 4, 2013 - 14:24 Web Experience Management, Development 11gR1BP1, FatWire, Oracle WebCenter Sites, WEM

Overview:

The error "Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL" occurs when running CSDT commands from the command-line.

Symptom:

If you're using Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1 BP1, the following error will occur when running CSDT commands from the command-line:

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: http://<www.mydomain.com>/cs/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/PrologA......

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Drupal Services - Part 1

Posted by Hani Atalla on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 16:08 Development Drupal, REST

Well, it is that cheerful time of the year again when we celebrate different festivities overloaded with food and benign and not-so-benign drinking. It is also that time of the year when we start thinking of our New Year resolution(s). For me, it is about peace and goodwill to mankind, and of course, losing some weight. So Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Feliz Navidad, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Holidays and all that jolly good stuff. So, what are we blogging about today? Well, guess what: it is Drupal - again. This time I’ll be short and brief, as I will venture more into the...

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Setting Up a Development Environment in Oracle WebCenter Sites

Posted by Somen De on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 15:02 Web Experience Management, Development, Best Practices Best Practices, CSDT, Development, FatWire, GSF, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Web Experience Management, WEM

Function1 would like to take this opportunity to welcome Mike Field (co-author of this blog) to our Web Experience Management team. Mike joins us from Metastratus Web Solutions and brings in-depth expertise in all aspects of Oracle WebCenter Sites. Mike and I worked together on creating a development environment in Oracle WebCenter Sites for a client and decided to document the process.

As all of us enthusiastic developers know, setting up an initial development environment can sometimes be a tedious and painstaking process, regardless of the platform or software we use. It can...

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How to use Vanity URLs in the GSF with WebCenter Sites

Posted by Tony Field on Monday, November 19, 2012 - 16:34 Web Experience Management, Best Practices, Cool Tools, Development architecture, design, FatWire, GSF, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Vanity URL, Web Experience Management, WEM

WebCenter Sites does not support vanity URLs without customization. The GSF provides a great vanity URL package that is flexible and easy to use, and this post will describe how to set it up.

Background

First, a little background. Native URLs in WebCenter Sites all have to include a query string parameter called "pagename". If the page is rendering an asset, "c" and "cid" are also included, and recently, other parameters like "childpagename" have crept into the standard set of parameters that are found in URLs. This simply doesn't cut...

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Security Hardening Open Source Projects

Posted by Jon Reid on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 12:35 Best Practices, Data Security, Development Best Practices, Development, Drupal, Security

A client recently had a stream of attacks on several of their online applications. Thanks to excellent monitoring, solid architecture and nice, clean installations, the attacks were easily rebuffed. Cheers to all involved. Just the same, the attacks gave me some insights on what a typical attack vector looks like to an online intruder. There were certainly some patterns in the commands directed at each server or application. As I said, the client faired very well. However, the incident gave us an excellent opportunity to review our monitoring efforts and even more interesting, our security...

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What is this whole GST Site Foundation thing?

Posted by Tony Field on Friday, October 26, 2012 - 15:45 Web Experience Management, Best Practices, Cool Tools, Development FatWire, GSF, support, WebCenter Sites

You've heard about it... the GST Site Foundation. Maybe you've heard of it as the "GSF". But what is it?

The GSF is a set of core architectural patterns and tools that support building websites with WebCenter Sites.

Think WebCenter Sites on Rails.

So why does it exist? Well, WebCenter Sites provides very flexible and powerful APIs. They are so powerful that the entire editorial interface, asset infrastructure, and all of the tools that are part of the application itself are built on the same APIs that we can use on our own websites...

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Keeping Drupal up-to-date with a legacy database

Posted by Allan Mai on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 14:23 Development Drupal, Migration, PHP

In past posts Hani has brought up sample cases of migrating data over from various WCI formats into Drupal (from basic content, to the knowledge directory, all the way back to ALUI Publisher)

In a recent exercise in the Drupal realm I took a look at a problem involving a large database back-end already in place and the task was for Drupal...

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Import your WCI Content in Drupal

Posted by Hani Atalla on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:09 Development, Web Experience Management Drupal, Export, Import, JSON, Migration, Node, PHP, Script, wci, XML

I wanted to blog about something exciting and relative to the current hour such as "who will win the coming presidential race to the Whitehouse", especially that the first presidential debate of 2012 is looming (personally I think Jim Lehrer is pretty lame and would have preferred to see Oprah Winfrey conducting these debates.) But my friend ...

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