Enterprise 2.0

Using WLST in portal restart script

Posted by Vasanth Manikumar on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 16:30 Enterprise 2.0 Portal, Weblogic, wlst

There's probably a variety of procedures that folks use for starting services for distributed applications. At one of our current clients, we have a central Windows batch file that restarts the various portal components that are deployed across several Windows servers. The portal services were being restarted using the Service Controller command ('sc') to start each service on its respective server. For instance, Automation Server was started with something like this:

sc \automation_host_name start "ptautomationserver"

Using the Service Controller to...

Removing a Studio Database

Posted by Mitul Patel on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 09:00 Enterprise 2.0 Studio

Even though Studio has been on its last legs for some time now, some customers still rely heavily on its functionality. As mentioned in a previous post, finding a studio database can be an awkward task given the lack of usability with Studio Database Manager. With over 1000 Studio databases, our client was having a hard time discerning those databases that were currently in use from those that were collecting dust for eons. Given the clumsy search mechanism and sheer number of databases, the client was...

Moving to ECM

Posted by Hani Atalla on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 00:08 Development, Function1, Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration, Development, General, UCM, WebCenter Content

Companies, similar to humans, have norms and habits and Function1 has one. Towards the last quarter of the year, the Function1 fraternity gets to be in teams of threes where each team is tasked with selecting a technology, researching it and, in an exotic company retreat during the month of January, presenting it to the other team members. Given that we come from different schools of thought, it isn't always easy to agree on a technology among the team members (though we are only three) but then democracy prevails (sort of) and the most senior person picks a technology! In the end, our...

A little research for your application to portlet(s) migration

Posted by Allan Mai on Friday, February 25, 2011 - 10:13 Development, Web Experience Management, Enterprise 2.0 Development, WebCenter

Being asked to research application frameworks and then reporting back is a pleasant deviation from the usual grind of production deadlines and code review due dates. So, when the opportunity came up to do some heads-down review on what is available for a client looking to convert a rather extensive JavaServer Faces (JSF) application into portal ready portlet components for WebCenter Interaction (WCI) - we were giddy. (Not Christmas Day snow...

Some cool project

Posted by Hani Atalla on Sunday, October 3, 2010 - 21:17 Function1, Enterprise 2.0, Development Confluence Word Press Integration, General, Portal

It is a thrill being a team member on a project that includes creative team members who aren’t shy of exploring unique avenues to achieve the project’s objectives. Don’t get me wrong, we aren’t taking elusive risks with potential greater expense just to plug in our resumes that we ventured into bleeding edge technologies. The team’s objective is to push the Oracle WebCenter Interaction technology to its fullest potential to meet the project’s requirements. So what are we trying to do? Well, since this blog site is, for the most part, about Oracle WebCenter Interaction (you didn’t...

A Webcenter Interaction 10gR3 install and an Oracle 11g Database walk into a bar

Posted by Allan Mai on Friday, April 23, 2010 - 15:42 Enterprise 2.0 Portal, wci

Error accessing database! Check your config files and verify that your database is correctly scripted.

It's 2 AM, and these are not exactly the calm and soothing words you want to be seeing from PTSpy after a clean, fresh install of your WCI portal. It is frustrating, it is alarming, and above all else, did I mention it is 2 AM? The prospect of re-scripting a database by hand is just ever so slightly upsetting. So we look at little deeper at the Spy log:

Exception in thread "Main Thread" com.plumtree.openkernel.exceptions.OKSQLException...

WCI Search Overload Syndrome

Posted by Vasanth Manikumar on Friday, March 26, 2010 - 12:17 Enterprise 2.0 Banner Search, Portal, Search Server, WCI Search

Recently, one of our customers asked us to help them improve the search experience for their 6.5 portal users, and before I could even think about the problem, the first thing that popped in my mind was this:

http://www.youtube.com...

Import Content into Publisher

Posted by Hani Atalla on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 16:57 Development, Enterprise 2.0 Development, Publisher, Quick Code

These are exciting times with Aqualogic (ALI) and its direction as a Portal technology after Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems. Some of our ALI clients have decided to migrate off ALI's Content Management System (CMS), Publisher, and adopt a different platform; e.g. Adobe Contribute. While others are embracing the new Portal CMS Web Center Interaction stack, more specifically, Universal Content Management (UCM) as a Publisher alternative as they migrate from their existing CMS; e.g. ...

Deploying Publisher in Production

Posted by Ashish Bhutiani on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - 00:45 Enterprise 2.0 Publisher

There is a major change that you need to make to the configuration of Publisher before deploying it into production and it is a change that is overlooked in a lot of ALUI deployments. When you install Publisher, it is not set up to use as much memory as a production instance of Publisher should use. Making this change is easy though, as the recommended configuration settings are actually in the config files, but are commented out. In order to make the change, open up the service.conf file in the ptcs/6.x/settings/config directory and find the following section:

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