Oracle9iAS Portal Developer Kit (PDK)
PortalTools New Features

| Introduction | Data Source | Layout | Web Clipping | More Information |

Introduction

OmniPortlet is a component of Oracle9iAS Portal that helps page designers to quickly and easily publish data from various data sources and render them in various layouts. OmniPortlet has been updated to include new data sources and layouts. The Web Clipping portlet allows you to extract specific portion or "clipping" (e.g., HTML table) of a Web page content. The page designer can browse to the desired Web page, deconstruct the page into "clipping", then preview the selected clipping in the portlet. The Web Clipping portlet has been updated to include new features that provide more control to the page designer.

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Data Source

Using OmniPortlet, you can now declaratively create portlets from even more data sources, including secured content, database objects, and web pages.

Access Secure Data

OmniPortlet provides a mechanism to define the credential information for any data sources: URL based data source (CSV or XML), Web Services by HTTP Basic Authentication, SQL (databases) by standard JDBC connection string, and J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA).

SQL Data Source

OmniPortlet introduces a easy way to publish data from a database using the new SQL data source. This data source uses standard JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) drivers to connect to the database.

Web Page Data Source

With the new Web page data source in OmniPortlet, page designers can now use Web Clipping to navigate to an existing Web application, capture the tabular data response, and render its presentation in a Portal as a table, chart, graph, as well as other formats.

Enhanced Web Service data source: "Execute and Test"

OmniPortlet provides a data source that allows the page designer to enter a URL to the WSDL (Web Service Description Language), select the operation and the parameters. At runtime OmniPortlet executes the Web Service operation to retrieve the data.

Filter and Sort any data

You can now filter and sort data from any data source using OmniPortlet filtering feature, even if the data source does not support filtering at the data source level.

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Layout

Enhanced News Layout

OmniPortlet offers now a way to make the news scroll vertically. With this layout extension, the page designer can choose to publish news on a Web page. This portlet can be smaller than a normal news portlet because it can scroll through all of the news content available, thus allowing more space on the page for additional portlets.

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Web Clipping

Full Page Clipping

Web Clipping has been enhanced for full page capture. This expands the range of supported clippings, so that whole pages, along with all the contained content, can be clipped and presented, in a portlet.

Restricting Clipping of External Web Sites

The Web Clipping Provider provides a basic mechanism that allows the page designer to restrict users from clipping content from unauthorized external Web Sites.

More Information

• For more information about OmniPortlet and Web Clipping Portlet or to download the PDK or new Layout, see the Web Clipping and OmniPortlet page on Portal Center.

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