CHAPTER 16MDS Under the Hood of WebCenter

Oracle Metadata Services Framework (MDS) is an integral component of Oracle ADF 11g. As we saw in Chapter 14, all the declarative artifacts that exist in ADF can be customized through MDS. Since Oracle WebCenter is built on the top of ADF, it will not surprise you to learn that WebCenter relies heavily on the capabilities of MDS to support application customization and user personalization. In fact, MDS is central to the Oracle Fusion strategy as a whole, since Fusion applications use it to offer vertical, industry, and customer-specific customizations. WebCenter, on the other hand, concerns itself with design-time and run-time customizations applied to portal-centric use cases. In this chapter, our ...

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