I've been puzzled by a resurgence in questions about the compatibility of E-Business Suite Release 12 portlets with third-party portals. I thought that I'd already covered this FAQ a few times on this blog, but searching through our archives, I see that I haven't revisited this topic formally since R12 was released. It's time for a quick refresher and update on what's supported in this release.
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 includes two sets of portlets. The first can only be used with Oracle Portal. A subset of those portlets are also JSR-168/WSRP 1.0-compatible and can be used in any third-party portal that complies with those standards.
The Release 12 JSR-168/WSRP 1.0-compatible portlets are:
- Applications Navigator: shows EBS menus based on a user's assigned responsibilities
- Applications Worklist: shows Oracle Workflow Notifications
- Applications Favorites: Allows users to bookmark menu items for frequently-used EBS functions
Sneak Preview: EBS R12 Portlet Generator
The set of prebuilt portlets is relatively small, but there's an interesting new utility on the horizon. Ramkumar Sekar, a manager in our Applications Technology Group, gave a sneak preview of an upcoming tool that will help you create your own custom EBS portlets based on regions from selected OA Framework pages. For pointers to that presentation and more details about this tool, see:
- Sneak Preview: Portlet Generator and Business Service Object Generator for EBS (OpenWorld 2008 Recap)
These tools haven't been released yet, and as usual, I don't have a firm schedule that. Nonetheless, this session is worth checking out if you're interested in seeing what's to come in the near future.
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- Integration Simplified: Native Service-Oriented Architecture in Oracle E-Business Suite (OpenWorld 2008 Recap)
- Java Authentication + Authorization Services (JAAS) for E-Business Suite (OpenWorld 2008 Recap)
Comments (8)
Hi ,
We need to integarte available JSR or WSRP complient portlets of R12 E-Biz Suite with third party portal ( IBM Webshear) . Does this require to integrate R12 with Oracle Portal or we can directly integrate R12 with IBM webshear? R12 has been integrated with oracle OID/SSO . Can you please provide how to proceed in this .
Regards
Soumya
Posted by soumya | January 20, 2009 4:24 AM
Posted on January 20, 2009 04:24
Hi Steven ,
Thanks for your quick update. Sorry , before update again I did not check the latest post .
Few more queries related to R12 portlet integration with Third party Portal:
1. Do we have specific documet where steps for integration of R12 portlets with 3rd party Portal is mentioned ?
2. How to expose these available portlets to thirdparty Portal ?
Thanks for your valuable inputs .
Regards
Soumya
Posted by soumya | January 20, 2009 4:48 AM
Posted on January 20, 2009 04:48
Any news on this Steven?
regards
Graham
Posted by Graham Healey | September 7, 2009 4:10 AM
Posted on September 7, 2009 04:10
Hi, Graham,
Assuming that you're interested in news about the portlet generator, we expect that to be released with the upcoming EBS 12.1.2 update. I'll post more details as soon as they're available.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan
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September 9, 2009 2:20 PM
Posted on September 9, 2009 14:20
Hi Steven ,
Thank you for this great information.
Actually, I have configured the EBS as producer to third party portal (Liferay). and the list of the available portlets has been displayed at the portal side. However, once you click one of these portlet, a remote exception is thrown and shows "invalid session” message. I think this message is because the logged in user portal is not recognized at the EBS side.
Now, my question is to overcome this issue, we can make an LDAP sync between the EBS and the portal (i.e. configure the EBS and the portal to read from the same LDAP directory as an identity store). Would this be enough to solve the problem and make the EBS recognizes the remote logged in user at the portal (i.e. WSPR consumer) as a valid user.
Notice that we are not configuring any SSO system in this solution
Posted by younis | October 25, 2009 12:18 PM
Posted on October 25, 2009 12:18
Hi, Younis,
Yes, your diagnosis of the problem is correct. Oracle Portal requires Oracle Single Sign-On. This is a mandatory prerequisite. If you wish these portlets to work in a third-party portal, you'll need to implementation Oracle Single Sign-On, too.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan
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October 27, 2009 10:01 AM
Posted on October 27, 2009 10:01
Hi Steven,
Your post gave me a good info regarding EBS Portlets. Its really valuable post.
We are using WebCenter 11g and facing some problems while configuring webcenter with E-Business Suite R12. WebCenter is not getting configuring with EBS. Getting and error is "UNABLE TO CREATE PORTLET SESSION". SSO implementation is not yet done as per an info we got from oracle people that the WebCenter doesnt require SSO to configure with EBS.
My question is, is it the problem with SSO only? or does any settings/changes are needed in EBS?
thanks & regards
Bharath
Posted by Bharath | November 10, 2009 8:24 PM
Posted on November 10, 2009 20:24
Hello Bharath,
WebCenter 11g is not yet certified with EBiz, but in does state in Note 557221.1 "Oracle WebCenter 10g Application Creation and Deployment Guide for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12" :
"In order to use E-Business Suite R12 Framework Producer portlets with WebCenter, we need to first implement Single Sign-On support on E-Business suite R12 instance"
Hope this helps
Mike
Posted by Mike Shaw | November 10, 2009 11:44 PM
Posted on November 10, 2009 23:44