World of WebCenter Interaction

I know that not many of our WCI customers are currently using Ensemble, but I believe that that will change over time. Ensemble is becoming a very strategic product within the scope of the WebCenter Suite of products. It was originally designed as a mashup engine for WCI so that you could pull many different types of web applications into WCI as portlets or vice versa, inject WCI portlets into other external web applications as pagelets.

We are expanding on that to make Ensemble the premier engine for the injection of web applications into any other web application, but more specifically into any of the WebCenter portals: Spaces, WCI, or WLP. We are also using Ensemble as a way to disseminate those web applications in a standard way, but that is for the future.

So that our WCI customers could get up to speed on Ensemble and be aware that I will probably recommending it to solve problems in the future, I wanted to let you all know about the new patch release that just came out. This is the announcement that the PM Tom Quigley just made last week.

"I am pleased to announce the release of WebCenter Ensemble 10.3.0.1.0, a patch to Ensemble 10.3. The patch provides support for ADF as well as bug fixes. Also, the patch certifies the use of WebCenter 11g Services in WebCenter Interaction. This is an important patch because it enables WCI customers to consume ADF taskflows as portlets. The patch can be downloaded from metalink. Do a search for 8653971."

For more information about Ensemble, please take a look at the Ensemble page on OTN at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/webcenter/ensemble/index.html

Refer to the release notes for more information.