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Integrating Oracle WebCenter Content Images into Portal

Prerequisites: Oracle WebCenter Content, UCM, WebCenter Portal, RIDC

When we do large portal site development, we usually store enterprise content and images in content repository. Content repository offers library services, content oracle_wc2check-in / out and versioning, etc., which allows content more manageable and traceable.

A common use case is to present images that store in content repository in portal page directly. Let’s see how we do this under Oracle WebCenter Content and Portal environment.

The idea is to build up a HashMap which holds key-value pairs docName-docURL. When portal page renders, it references to the specific docName key defined in the image tag and loads the image based on the value of docURL from content repository...

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Get Image Data from Oracle WebCenter Content using RIDC API

Prerequisites: Oracle WebCenter Content, RIDC, JDeveloper, MVCADF, Java, XML, DOM

Oracle WebCenter Content (previous Oracle ECM) offers integrated content services, including document management, records management, imaging and digital assets management, etc.

My previous client wanted to get the image data information from content server (UCM) and utilize it on imagedatacustomized portal. This has been implemented as an ADF taskflow and deployed as part of the ADF Library Jar in order to be reused in the customized portal environment.

Image data includes lots of raw information from an image file as illustrated at right. These information can be seen from the Web UI of content server. Now we need retrieve them from content server programmably.

Remote Intradoc Client (RIDC)  provides a thin c...

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