Step 1: Download the Portal Add-in for Oracle JDeveloper

There are many Java development environments available today, and any of these environments can be used to create Java-based portlets to be deployed to the Oracle Application Server. Oracle provides, however, an add-in for its Oracle JDeveloper product that makes developing and deploying portlets much easier. An add-in is a small piece of code added to the Oracle JDeveloper environment to enhance its functionality. The portal add-in consists of a wizard that will generate much of the underlying code for you. There are two significant differences to the code generated by the OracleAS Portal declarative development wizards discussed in Chapters 1 and 7, however:

The code generated by the ...

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