ADF portal or webcenter portal

Question

Hi All,
From last 5 years I am working on Weblogic portal and Liferay portal. Now my requirements is Migrate Liferay portal Application to Webcenter.
I don't know I have to use ADF portal or webcenter portal . Please clarify.
Thanks,
Venkata Sarvabatla

Answer 1

What do you mean when you say "ADF portal"? There is no such product.
WebCenter Portal is built on top of ADF (Faces, Controller, Bindings, Taskflows). The most important things that WebCenter Portal adds to pure ADF are:
Portlet and pagelet support - portlet container, portlet runtime (JSR-168, JSR-286, WSRP, JPDK), wrapping of ADF pages and Bounded Taskflows as portlets through Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge, pagelet producer
Runtime creation and customization of portal pages through Oracle Composer and configurable Resource Catalogs
Content integration - integration with content repositories (e.g. WebCenter Content - former Oracle UCM, Oracle Portal, MS SharePoint, JSR-170, file repositories) and Web content integration
A number of configurable and customizable pre-built portal components called WebCenter Services (e.g. polls, announcements, discussion forums, RSS, e-mail client, tags, lists, search, document manager, content presenter, contacts, activities, message board and many others)
Declarative page hierarchies and page security
Declarative navigation models
Built-in runtime Portal Admin Console, etc.
If you need some of these features, you should consider WebCenter Portal. If you do not need any of these features, you can try to build your portal as a pure ADF Web application, thus avoiding a purchase of expensive WebCenter licenses at your customer. The pure ADF approach would be difficult, especially if the Liferay portal you are going to port is offering typical portal features, which are missing in pure ADF, so you would have to implement them yourself, which might not be feasible.
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