CHAPTER 6OmniPortlet and Web Clipping

Back in Chapter 1, we discussed the wizards that OracleAS Portal comes with for developing portlets. The wizards are fast, easy, and secure and allow developers to generate forms, reports, charts, and the like very quickly. Beginning OracleAS Portal developers and administrators can be productive in a very short period of time once they’ve been trained on the basics of wizard-based portlet development (referenced in Chapter 1), content management (Chapter 5), and page design (Chapters 3 and 4). The real beauty of using the wizards isn’t in the portlets themselves but in the unbelievable amount of complex code the wizards generate to handle things like session/state management of objects, maintaining visual ...

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