How Configure WebCenter Space Development ZIP file?
All the WebCenter Space resources like skin, page templates, page style, navigation, mashup styles etc are deployed as a WebCenter Space shared library.When you are going to configure WebCenter Space Development ZIP on windows environment, you will face few issues. In this post i will explain those missing steps as well.
Pre-requsits:
a.WebCenter Spaces is installed, configured, and working as expected.
b.JDeveloper 11G is installed
a. WebCenter Framework and Services Design Time Extensions are installed
Steps:-
1.Download the WebCenter Spaces development ZIP file (DesignWebCenterSpaces.zip) from Oracle Technology Network:
2.Unzip the content.
3.Copy the content of copy_to_common directory into jdeveloper/Oracle_Home directory
4.Copy the content of copy_to_jdev_ext directory into jdeveloper\jdev\extensions directory
5.Restart JDeveloper.
6.Open the project DesignWebCenterSpaces.jws in jdeveloper
7.Change the config.properties according to your WebCenter Space environment. If working for Windows, use \\ . For example jdeveloper.install.home.directory=D:\\Oracle\\Middleware
8.Change the WebCenterSpacesExtensionLibrary \built.properties file according to your WebCenter Space environment. This step is missing in WebCenter’s Developer Guide (E10148-12) and you will face class patch and XML parsing issues.
9. Add ant-contrib.jar into jdeveloper\modules\net.sf.antcontrib_1.0.0.0_1-0b2\lib directory. You can download it from http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/. This step is also missing in WebCenter Developer Guide (E10148-12).
10. Right-click build.xml, located under WebCenterSpacesExtensionLibrary and choose Run Ant Target > clean-stage
11.Now, your project is configured and ready to deploy on WebCenter Spaces environment via shared library, choose Run Ant Target > deploy-shared-lib.
Few files are hidden in jdeveloper. You can see those files as well using following steps:-
1. Right click on the project
2. Go to Project Properties --> Project Source Paths --> Excluded
4. Just remove those files that you want to see within jdeveloper