OracleAS Portal Developer Kit (PDK)
Portal Tools Release Notes

Last updated: June 23, 2005
Status: Production
Version: PDK Release 2 (10.1.2.0.2 and later)

System Requirements

The following are the recommended and minimum requirements to use and install Portal Tools version 10.1.2.0.2:

Note: Starting with PDK 9.0.4.1.0, the PDK download is intended to be installed and deployed in a standalone OC4J instance only. If you plan to use PDK in an Oracle Application Server instance, you must get and install the corresponding Oracle Application Server releases or patchsets.

Application Server

Standalone OracleAS Containers for J2EE (OC4J) 10g (10.1.2) only

OracleAS Portal

Release 9.0.2 or higher

Browsers

For page viewers to display portlets in Shared Screen (show) mode or to customize portlets in Edit mode:
  • Netscape 4.79 or higher
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.1 (with Service Pack 1), 5.0, or higher

For page designers to set portlet defaults in Edit Defaults mode:

  • Netscape 7.0 or higher
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher

Note:  You may encounter JavaScript errors when using an older browser than required.

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What's New

Locale Personalization Level

The localePersonalizationLevel setting in the provider definition file (provider.xml) is now set to "none" for OmniPortlet and SimpleParameterForm portlets. In previous releases, localePersonalizationLevel was set to "language". Therefore, now when you edit the portlet defaults from Edit Defaults Mode, the changes apply to all users regardless of the language set in the current Portal session.

If you want to use these portlets with exisiting locale specific data from previous releases and use the previous Edit Defaults behavior, set the localePersonalizationLevel tag in provider.xml to the appropriate language or locale value. For a description of these settings, refer to the PDK-Java Release Notes .

Note: If you are upgrading from a release prior to 9.0.4.0.2, use the Preference Store Migration/Upgrade Utility described in the PDK-Java Release Notes to ensure that existing locale-specific data uses a naming format that matches your localePersonalizationLevel setting.

Preference Store Migration/Upgrade Utility

You can now migrate your customizations from the file preference store to the DB Preference store and vice versa. This utility is available with the JPDK version 9.0.4.1.0 and higher. More details are available in the PDK-Java Release Notes.

A complete list of new features is available within the PDK New Features article. 

Known Issues

  1. Bug #2639560 - (OmniPortlet) CHART DOES NOT RENDER NUMERIC VALUES WITH COMMAS (100,000 20,000, ETC.)
  2. Bug #2411864 - (OmniPortlet) DATASOURCE DRIVERS HIDE SSO CHALLENGE
  3. Bug #2507823 - (OmniPortlet) CUSTOMIZE FREEZES YOUR EDIT DEFAULTS

Installation

The Installing Portal Tools article describes the installation instructions.

 

Revision History:
Revision No Last Update
1.0 October 25, 2002
2.0 June 25, 2003
2.1 August 14, 2003
2.2 September 15, 2003
2.3 November 17, 2003
2.4 December 7, 2004
3.0 June 23, 2005

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