World of WebCenter Interaction

I have a number of announcements that I would like to make to you as I have really been working hard to get new information and functionality out to you. As such, I have been working with other members of the Product Management team to make some changes to the WebCenter Interaction page that all of you can find on the Oracle Technology Network. This page can be found at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/webcenter/interaction/index.html

On this page you will find many presentations that we have put together for informational purposes or that I have given at the Collaborate 09 conference earlier this year. You will also find a couple of new white papers for you as customers; one that talks about how to integrate ADF applications into WCI as portlets using Ensemble and then one that talks about tuning and performance of your WCI implementation.

UCM CWS Sample

The second piece to this announcement is in reference to a new piece of sample code that I would like to make available to the WCI customer base. By scrolling to the bottom of the below URL, you will find a new Crawler Web Service that will allow you to crawl and index UCM based content within a WCI Knowledge Directory.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/webcenter/owcs_10132_demos.html

This CWS is a fully functioning crawler that I wanted to make available to help bridge the gap between WCI and UCM. It is hopefully just the first piece of a much larger integration story between the two products. A full set of installation instructions and description of the sample code can be found in the zip package that is available for download.

For those who are not aware, if you scroll up slightly from the UCM CWS sample, you will notice that there are WCI sample portlets available for the Wiki/Blog/Discussions functionality within the WebCenter Services product, so please feel to try these as well especially if you are interested in that functionality. Please remember that all of this is currently sample code, but I do appreciate any feedback that you might have.

Please keep an eye on both the main WCI OTN page and the WebCenter Suite 10gR3 sample page, because I hope to be making more additions in the future.