List of Figures

1-1 Components of the Oracle Application Server Architecture

1-2 The Middle-Tier Components

1-3 The Infrastructure Tier Components

1-4 Portal Page Request Flow

1-5 Communication Flow and Protocols

1-6 Adding OracleAS Web Cache to a Medium to Large Portal Configuration

2-1 OracleAS Portal Single Computer Configuration

2-2 Separating the Application Server Middle Tier from the Infrastructure

2-3 Oracle Identity Management Installed on a Separate Computer

2-4 Multiple Middle Tiers

2-5 Multiple Server Configuration Using a Load Balancing Router

2-6 My Oracle.com Middle-Tier Configuration

3-1 Login Link

4-1 The Portal Builder Page

4-2 The Administer Tab on the Portal Builder Page

4-3 Sample PDA Page Layout

4-4 The Set Language Portlet

5-1 Multiple Middle-Tier Configuration with a Load Balancing Router

5-2 Installation of OracleAS Portal Middle Tier

5-3 OracleAS Portal Being Accessed Through the LBR

5-4 Select Configuration Options Screen

5-5 Virtual Host Overview

5-6 OracleAS Portal Using a Dedicated OracleAS Web Cache Instance

6-1 OracleAS Portal Security Architecture

6-2 N-Tier Authentication By User Proxy

6-3 OracleAS Portal DIT Structure

6-4 DIT Structure for OracleAS Portal Groups

6-5 Oracle Directory Integration Platform Synchronization

6-6 Relationship between Oracle Delegated Administration Services, mod_osso, and OracleAS Single Sign-On

6-7 User Portlet

6-8 Portal User Profile Portlet

6-9 Group Portlet

6-10 Portal Group Profile Portlet

6-11 OracleAS Portal Create User Page

6-12 Create Group Page

6-13 Privilege Assignment Section of the Create Group Page

6-14 Administration Privileges Section of the Edit Group Profile Page

6-15 Configure Roles Page

6-16 Secured Connection to OracleAS Single Sign-On

6-17 Secured Connection to OracleAS Web Cache

6-18 Secured Connections Throughout the System

6-19 External SSL Only

7-1 Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Console Components

7-2 Grid Control Console - Portal Target Page

7-3 Grid Control Console - OracleAS Portal Metrics

7-4 Grid Control Console - OracleAS Portal Metric Information

7-5 Grid Control Console - OracleAS Portal Edit Metric Thresholds

7-6 Application Server Control Console - Main OracleAS Portal Monitoring Page

7-7 Application Server Control Console - Portal Web Cache Settings

7-8 Application Server Control Console - Portal Cache Settings

7-9 Application Server Control Console - Portal DAD Settings

7-10 Application Server Control Console - Parallel Page Engine Services Monitoring Page

7-11 Application Server Control Console - Provider Summary

7-12 Application Server Control Console - Database Providers

7-13 Application Server Control Console - Web Providers

7-14 Application Server Control Console - WSRP Providers

7-15 Administer Log Registry Page

7-16 Edit Log Registry Record page

7-17 Oracle Application Server Ports Page

8-1 OracleAS Portal Basic Search Portlet

8-2 OracleAS Portal Basic Search Results Page

8-3 OracleAS Portal Advanced Search Portlet

8-4 OracleAS Portal Custom Search Portlet

8-5 OracleAS Portal Search Results Page

8-6 OracleAS Portal Saved Searches Portlet

8-7 Oracle Ultra Search Portlet

8-8 Hits per Page Setting on Search Portlets

8-9 Advanced Search Link on Basic/Custom Search Portlets

8-10 Internet Search Engine Link on Advanced/Custom Search Portlets

8-11 Oracle Ultra Search Architecture

8-12 Oracle Ultra Search Portlet

8-13 Example of Query Results in the Oracle Ultra Search Portlet

9-1 Multiple VM Configuration Section

10-1 Export Process

10-2 Transport Set Manifest

10-3 Detailed Manifest Screen

10-4 Portal Navigator

10-5 Transport Set Manager

10-6 Transport Set Manager Objects

10-7 Transport Set Export Log

10-8 Portal Migration Scripts

10-9 Import Process

10-10 Transport Set Manager Import Objects

10-11 Transport Set Manager Import Log

10-12 Import Transport Set Page

10-13 Export/Import Transport Set Portlet

10-14 Browse Transport Sets

A-1 Elements in the Portal Dependency Settings file

A-2 OracleAS Portal and OracleAS Wireless Developer Configuration

A-3 Enterprise Data Center Configuration

B-1 Typical Deployment Topology

C-1 Portal Page Running in Debug Mode

I-1 Web Clipping - Provider Test Page

I-2 Web Clipping - Repository Settings

I-3 Web Clipping - Proxy Settings

I-4 Invalidation-Based Caching Provided by OracleAS Web Cache

I-5 Web Clipping Portlet Page

J-1 Oracle Internet Directory Tree Before Running the Script

J-2 Oracle Internet Directory Tree After Running the Script

J-3 Oracle Internet Directory Tree with Users and Groups

J-4 Membership Structure of Acme Users and Groups

J-5 CompanyA in Both Portal and Oracle Internet Directory

K-1 Request Flow with ECID Generation and Propagation

K-2 PDK Logging Page

K-3 Log Entries in the PDK Logging Page

K-4 Application Server Control Console View Logs Page