Summary

The declarative development wizards referenced in Chapter 1 are great for developing and deploying simple, database-centric portlets, but the complex business rules in place at most organizations today usually force developers to abandon declarative development pretty quickly. To unleash the full power of OracleAS Portal, developers need to embrace advanced technologies like Java and Oracle JDeveloper.

Oracle is fully aware of the complexity of Web-based application development and the pressures put upon developers. To address this, Oracle provides their Java-based development tool, Oracle JDeveloper, to developers free of charge. While Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.2 does not provide native support for OracleAS Portal development out of the ...

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