New, developer - oriented features in BEA WebLogic Portal 10.2

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Pieter Humphrey's Blog | March 3, 2008  10:59 AM | Comments (0)

BEA just released BEA WebLogic Portal 10.2 which has a richer integration with Eclipse 3.2.2. We’ve created a bundled together build of our development capabilities that come with WebLogic Portal called WorkSpace Studio 1.1 . Highlights include the Disc API based on Dojo toolkit for developing Web-2.0 interactions in portals. Disc has special namespacing so it won’t interfere with your native code. It also allows client side interportlet communication and the ability to manipulate the portal framework from the client.

Highlights for WebLogic Portal 10.2 developers:

- Integration of the WebLogic Portal taglibs into the Studio JSP editor will improve product consistency, enhanced grouping, filtering, animation, palette commands

·         WLP tags appear in Studio palette under “Tag Libraries” group

·         Custom dialog editors when dropping WLP tag onto JSP design/source views

·         Tag integration with JSP editor source/design views.

·         Tag code completion in JSP editor source view.

·         Tag integration with Smart Editors in Properties view.

·         Ctrl-Click tag navigation support in JSP editor source view.

·         Tag validation in JSP editor source view and Problems view.

·         F1 help available for tags in JSP editor source view.

- New “Clipper” portlet type supported in portlet wizard.

·         The clipper portlet clips a portion of web content returned by a URL.

·         The clipper portlet will have an initial portlet preference definition for “remoteUrl”.

Enhanced content querying

·         Cm_value property now supported in content search query when creating content selectors and placeholders.

- Improved Proxy Portlet Registration

- Proxy Portlet Registration dialog now contains a checkbox for storing registration properties locally on consumer in wsrp-producer-registry.xml file. This has the following benefits:

·         In case the producer is unable to provide registration properties. This can happen if producer is not 10.2+ or does not support WSRP registration property extension.

·         When modifying a registration, the previous registration properties/values will be listed.

- IDE support for encrypted User property sets

·         User Property Set wizard and Property Editor now support the “Enable Encryption” property. When “true”, the user property set is encrypted in the user profile database when the property set is published. This option is irreversible once the property set is published

- Portal Desktops can be enabled with JavaScript

·         “Disc Enabled” - Enables the desktop with the BEA Disc (Dynamic Interface Scripting) JavaScript environment. This environment makes some JavaScript libraries available for use (i.e. the XML Interaction Engine and client-side portal contextual objects). If DVT is enabled, then Disc is implicitly enabled by default (and non-editable); otherwise, Disc is disabled by default.

·         “DVT Enabled” - Enables the desktop with the ability to dynamically move placeables from one placeholder to another. Implicitly enables the BEA Disc JavaScript environment. Default = false.

- Portlet re-factoring

·         Supported when copying portlets to same/different folder using the Project Explorer or Package Explorer. All portlet types supported.

- New Content Display Template Wizard

·         makes it easier for users to create display templates for use with the Content Presenter portlet.

·         The wizard dynamically allows user to choose content types/properties defined in a content repository and then prepares a display template/jsp file that displays these property/value pairs in tabular format.

·         The user can then customize the generated jsp to achieve the desired final presentation

- Improved ANT build script generation

·         Previously, in 10.0 the wlp-antlib.jar would reside in the deploy directory. The SystemClasspathScriptCustomizer  eclipse ext. pt. was used to customize the classpath references of the generated ant script to point to the library.

·         In 10.2, the wlp-antlib.jar must reside within one of our eclipse plugins (com.bea.wlp.eclipse.project) and is copied out to the local directory wherever the ANT script is generated. The ANT script references all libraries from that local \workshop-lib directory.

 We look forward to your feedback on this release!

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