Building a Site Map in WebLogic Portal 10

Tuesday, 8 July 2008, by Gerald Nunn

Building an efficient and effective site map in WebLogic Portal is not as trivial as it may first appear. This article discusses two different approaches for accomplishing the task.

Using Maven 2 to Build WebLogic Portal Applications

Wednesday, 7 March 2007, by Gerald Nunn

Apache Maven 2 is a popular open-source build system. In this tutorial, this article shows how to use Maven 2 to build WebLogic Portal applications.

Portal Menus and Windowed Controls

Tuesday, 5 April 2005, by Gerald Nunn

Shows you how to use a simple IFRAME shim technique to solve the problem in WebLogic Portal of HTML elements being hidden by other DHTML elements when the page is rendered with Internet Explorer.

Paging and Sorting using the netui:repeater tag

Monday, 7 February 2005, by Gerald Nunn

Find out how to implement an efficient and reusable paging and sorting system for displaying data using the netui:repeater tag in BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1.

Portlet Caching

Monday, 10 January 2005, by Gerald Nunn

WebLogic Portal 8.1 includes a number of features to control the caching of portlet content. This article explains how and when these portlet caching features should be used. A JSP tag example is also provided for interacting with the portal cache.

Database Controls Best Practices

Thursday, 26 May 2005, by Gerald Nunn

Database controls extend the BEA WebLogic 8.1 controls architecture to enable developers to easily interact with relational databases with maximum productivity. Utilizing a database control, a developer can quickly create methods to issue commands and retrieve data as required. Database controls can often be a more productive choice over other technology alternatives such as Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB).