This is the last session I attended which ended around 4:00 PM on Thursday. The features this session covered were all available from 11g. Due to the fact that Oracle acquired BEA WebLogic solutions, their commitment to releasing 11g got postponed from mid-2009 to calendar-2009.
Oracle Portal 11g - (1) supports new standards such as WSRP2.0, JSR170, etc, (2) consumes personal & social services via WebCenter Services (i.e. wiki, IM, etc.), (3) has UI driven life-cycle management (test-production: no manual process necessary), and (4) is converging to WebLogic platform.
According to the development/product-management team, they will continually support Oracle Application Server based portal solutions and provide migration solutions for those who already developed portlet/portal solutions on Oracle platform. However, it wasn't difficult to think that it's all lip-service. It's basically a warning to customers to flee and convert to WebLogic platform.
The followings are the services Oracle Portal 11g can integrate into: (1) Discussion services (based on Jive), (2) Wiki services (based on YaWiki), (3) Search services (Enterprise Search?), (4) Presence and Chat Service (based on OCMS) with voice option, (5) CMS to handle unstructured contents as well as life-cycle management, and (6) Document Library service (versioning, authroing, and publishing, etc.) through WebDAV.
Their communication protols are WSRP2.0 and AJAX. It allows 3rd party content repositories as well as file system. BPEL based content routing and approval process (as you can see in the WorkList application) are supported inside the Portal environment.
Half of the presentation was all Q&A and people including myself were bombarding questions regarding the future of the product with regard to WebLogic's presence and conversion issues from the existing Oracle platform.
Well, it looks like there are lots more to come and change during the course of time - one and a half year is pretty long, isn't it? We will see! Anyways, we definitely need to get ready for a big change next year on Oracle Portal platform...
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