Apex application registered as an external application to Portal 10.2

I am having trouble doing this. I have followed this document
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/howtos/htmldb_as_external_app.html
And when I click on the link I end up with a blank page.
Any advise?

Has anyone used an Apex application as an external application to Oracle Portal? If so what directions did you follow to make it work?

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External Application without portal ?

Hi all
I have several applications built in JSP + BC4J , deployed in Oracle Application Server 10G (9.0.4) , operating system is windows 2000 server.
Application server middle tier and infrastruture are in the same server.
I have added all applications to SSO as External Application
I'm not using Portal, so, how can i make this applications "visible" to end user ?
Should i built and JSP page wich lists all External Applications, asks for login/password if authentication cookie not exits ??
is there any other way of doing it without portal ???
Best Regards
Rui Madaleno

Rui,
actually the External Applications implementation is completely separate from the Portal and does not require it to function. (The external Applications Portlet is a simple interface to expose the list of external applications.
If you are looking for a simple interface to expose the list, it is much as you describe. Building a simple Partner application which has links referencing the appropriate SSO server URLs. Storing the links in a table and simply querying them allows for a simple interface that can be secured/modified withour haveing to change the page itself.

Base Tables that store external application information

I have created several external applications. I would like to know where are these applications stored ie. in which tables under what user . I want to get the corresponding external application id to the external application name , so that I can pass it to one of my functions to launch the external application.

I think you want wwsso_application_info_t and
wwsso_appuser_info_t owned by portal30_sso
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Apex application registered with sso as partner application

We have 1 apex app registered with sso and working properly.
I just registered a new apex application with sso. when i authenticate through sso, it directs me to the originally registered application.
I went in through the portal administrator app and verified my settings all pointed to the new application. I verified that my dad is set up correctly.
Any ideas?
APEX 2.0

i did register and obtain the keys through portal admin.
to ensure i used the proper keys (i guess there is a possibility i used the keys from db1 registration) i re-ran regapp with the right keys but recieved the following output:
SQL> @regapp
Partner Application Configuration
Enter value for listener_token: HTML_DB:050iasphttp.xxx.na.xxx.com:7777
Enter value for site_id: EFBE3E14
Enter value for site_token: MSMXURH1EFBE3E14
Enter value for login_url: https://050iaspdb.xxx.na.xxx.com:4443/pls/orasso/orasso.wwsso_app_admin.ls_login
Enter value for encryption_key: 2EBDD126A3A40606
Enter value for ip_check: N
ERROR: Error in registration. Please try again
User-Defined Exception
Registration successful.
Listener token: HTML_DB:050iasphttp.xxx.na.xxx.com:7777
Site id : EFBE3E14
Site token : MSMXURH1EFBE3E14
Encryption key: 2EBDD126A3A40606
Login URL :
https://050iaspdb.xxx.na.xxx.com:4443/pls/orasso/orasso.wwsso_app_admi
n.ls_login
Logout URL :
https://050iaspdb.xxx.na.xxx.com:4443/pls/orasso/orasso.wwsso_app_admi
n.ls_logout
IP check : N
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Commit complete.
No errors.
SQL>
...in spite of the error, i aske the app developer to try and use sso for db2. he now recieves:
User-Defined Exception
Error Error in wwv_flow_custom_auth_sso.process_success:l_sso_user_name:l_sess_id:: Please contact administrator.
OK
any ideas?

Register external application as partner application on OSSO

Hi All,
I am using OracleAS Single Sign-On. I want to integrate Stellent Universal Content Management(UCM) with OracleAS Single Sign-On.
Can someone please let me know how to achieve this?
Also I would like to know, how can I register external application as a partner application in OracleAS Single Sign-on?
Thanks & Regards,
Yash Shah

Hi,
Thanks for your quick response. I have gone through the document which you suggested. the document says to register through sooreg.sh script. I would like to register partner application using SSO Administration UI.
When I log in to OSSO server, I have a option of registering the partner application, there in UI I have to specify, Home URL, Success URL and Logout URL.
For me, my sso server and my application server resides on the different servers (systems). Please let me know which URLs I shoudl specify to register my partner application using UI.
I mean, I want to know what should I specify in Home URL, Success URL and Logout URL
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Error in registering a provider for External Application for Web Clipping

Getting Error: The provider URL specified may be wrong or the provider is not running. (WWC-43176)
when trying to register a provider for an external application for Web Clipping

Hi Vineet,
The admins applied a patch to my version of the OracleAS 10g Version 9.0.4. and now I able to register a provider with the same URL but different Provider Name. I added My Yahoo Web Clipping from the Portlet Staging Area. That works fine but when I click on the check mail link in the Web Clipping Studio it gives me the following error. I have tried several times and I get the same error....
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Please click "Cancel" or "Back" in the above panel (if present) to retry. Otherwise, please try to click "Back" (from the browser) to go back to the Oracle Portal page to restart.

How do I register Multiple External Application IDs

How do I register Multiple External Application ID's in a single WEBCLIPPING provider....

Hi Java,
You cannot have multiple External Application associated with a single Provider , you need to register diffrent providers with respective External Applications
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Vineet

[Problem]Registering "External Applications" in Oracle Portal

We want to register an external application (simple HTML based login application) with Oracle Portal 10.1.4. We followed the steps documented and registered the external application. We did provide the necessary credentials and checked the remember credentials check box.
We added the External Application Portlet which provides a link to the added application. However, everytime we click the link , instead of automatically logging into external application , we are shown the external application login screen.
Our environment: Oracle 10.1.4 Portal ; Oracle 10.1.2 Appserver
Appreciate any help to solve the problem.
Thanks

Hey 619948:
These can be tricky to track down. Typically, there are 1 or more form fields missing from the external application that the actual application needs to log you in. Here's the flow I use to setup external apps.
1) Go to login page of the external app and view the page source
2) Find the URL in the action address of the <FORM tag or in the JavaScript used for submitting the form
3) Find every form input including <INPUT, <SELECT, etc and note their names and their values (if any). This includes hidden ones
4) The tricky part -- try to make an educated guess as to which fields are required and which ones are optional. This is not always obvious
5) Setup your external application with the Action URL as the URL, the username and password fields where indicated and adding in any extra fields identified in step 4
If that still doesn't do the trick, I use the Web Developer plugin for Firefox to change the POST (if that is what is used for logging in) to a GET so I can see the exact fields being submitted on the application's login page. Sometimes, it may be an obscure button like submit=submit.
Finally, some applications just don't play well with externally logging in. This is one of the cases where it really isn't Oracle Portal's doing. Some apps just have so much coding and scripts etc. on their login page that you just can't login except through thier page.
Rgds/Mark M.

Single Sign-on and external applications

Hi,
Someone might be able to point me in the right direction about this.
I have registered each of my applications as external applications within Oracle Portal in order to avail of single sign-on.
This is fine to a point, but registering applications in this way still requires the user to enter a username and password once in order to login to the application the first time they use it, even though they have already logged into the Portal. As long as the user doesn't log out of the application they can close their browser and when they come back to the application they are still logged in.
None of the applications I use are oracle partner applications.
My problem is that I want to avoid the user having to log in to the application the first time they use it.
Ideally they should login to Portal once and then any subsequent applications they access, they are automatically logged into them without having to enter a username and password.
Is there a way to do this or will I have to write a custom login for each application to circumnavigate this first time using the application login issue ?
Are there any docs that someone could point me at.
Many thanks,

Maria, I was experimenting with this last night, to answer your question, and I think a cool way of doing this would be the following:
Create a custom attribute called "App ID" - make this a NUMBER type. This is where the external application id will be stored.
Create a custom item type: "External Application"
You have two options for the base type: either "URL" or "<None>". If you pick URL, then you can have the item contain the URL for fapp_process_login, but this is not advisable because it will require the administrator to type in this long URL every time a new application is added.
If you select base type URL, you should use that URL to let the administrator provide a URL to the application's homepage, or a help page or something of that sort.
Edit the newly created item to set the Attribute and Procedure properties.
Add the "App ID" attribute - no default.
On the Procedure tab, add the following procedures (called as HTTP), each with the App ID passed as "p_app_id":
Login http://server.domain.com/pls/portal30_sso/portal30_sso.wwsso_app_admin.fapp_process_login
Edit http://server.domain.com/pls/portal30_sso/portal30_sso.wwsso_app_admin.edit_fappuser
That's it!
Add the new custom item type to a folder, and all the administrator needs to do is set the title, and App ID for the new item.
Excercise for the Reader
You will notice that clicking on the Edit link will take you to the login server when you are done editing the credentials. To avoid this, pass another parameter to the edit procedure - p_done_url, and set a value for that to point to the page that you want to go to after editing credentials.

How do you harness URL external application in a JSP?

I have successfully deployed the Yahoo Finance sample URL External Application. However, I do not understand how to utilize the URL classes (in the pdkjava.jar) to harness the external application information once a user has authenticated. I am building a JSP portlet that displays and applet, however the applet requires a username and password. I need to get the Username and Password from external application, which it gets from the user via External Application. How do I get these values in my JSP (that is defined in my provider.xml)? I keep seeing documentation regarding the ExternalPrincipal object however I don't understand how to utilize this object in my JSP. I beleive the ExternalPrincipal object is what I need in my JSP, seeing that it has the methods for getting the user and password. Unless is there a better way of achieving this, can anyone shed some light on getting the ExternalPrincipal object for an External Application session?
Thanks,
Laith E.H.

Thanks for the example. I have a better understanding now, however I'm still having trying to comprehend the flow of executing in this portal model.
I have a problem with:
PortletRenderRequest pr = (PortletRenderRequest) request.getAttribute("oracle.portal.PortletRenderRequest");
ProviderUser prUser = pr.getUser();
ProviderSession pSession = prUser.getSession(true);
I get a NullPointerException on the second line when trying to getUser(). I'm not sure where the problem could be. In the provider.xml, my ExternalProviderInstance, or the JSP itself? I have another JSP portlet on the same page that calls the same method with success.
Thanks,
Laith E.H.
provider.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?providerDefinition version="3.1"?>
<provider class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.http.URLProviderDefinition">
     <providerInstanceClass>com.cox.portal.provider.ExternalProviderInstance</providerInstanceClass>
     <session>true</session>
     <authentication class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.security.Authentication">
          <authType>ExternalApp</authType>
          <userFieldName>Username</userFieldName>
          <userPwdName>Password</userPwdName>
          <errorPageMessages>Invalid ID,Invalid Password</errorPageMessages>
     </authentication>
     <portlet class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.http.URLPortletDefinition">
     <id>1</id>
     <name>ExternalAnalyzer</name>
     <title>Main Analyzer</title>
     <description>This portlet logs into analyzer</description>
     <timeout>100</timeout>
     <timeoutMessage>analyzer timed out</timeoutMessage>
          <showEdit>false</showEdit>
          <showEditDefault>false</showEditDefault>
          <showPreview>false</showPreview>
          <showDetails>false</showDetails>
          <hasHelp>false</hasHelp>
          <hasAbout>false</hasAbout>
          <acceptContentType>text/html</acceptContentType>
          <registrationPortlet>false</registrationPortlet>
          <accessControl>registered</accessControl>
          <renderer class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.RenderManager">
               <showPage class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.http.URLRenderer">
                    <pageUrl>http://catl0dv31.corp.cox.com/bic/analyzerIFrame.jsp?ap_doc=analyzer&ap_id=105</pageUrl>
                    <contentType>text/html</contentType>
               </showPage>
          </renderer>
          <securityManager class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.security.URLSecurityManager">
               <authorizType>registered</authorizType>
          </securityManager>
     </portlet>
</provider>
ExternalProviderInstance:
package com.cox.portal.provider;
import oracle.portal.provider.v2.*;
import oracle.portal.provider.v2.http.*;
import oracle.portal.provider.v2.externalApp.*;
public class ExternalProviderInstance extends URLProviderInstance
public static final String EXTERNAL_APP = "externalapp.object.key";
ProviderSession pSession = null;
public Object[] initSession(ProviderUser user, ExternalPrincipal externalApp)
throws ProviderException {
//UrlServicesUtils.logMessage("BasicURLProvider : Entering initSession.", getDebugLevel());
//Create/Retrieve provider user session.
if (mProviderDefinition.getHasSession()) {
// Create the session if it doesn't already exist.
pSession = user.getSession(true);
// Store external app in provider session so that other modules
// can extract it later.
if (pSession != null) {
pSession.setAttribute(EXTERNAL_APP, externalApp);
// Get javax.servlet.http.Cookie[] from user
javax.servlet.http.Cookie[] cookies = ((ServletProviderUser)user).getCookies();
if(cookies != null)
return cookies;
else
return null;

No External Applications visible in Portlet

I have just upgrade from Oracle Portal 3.0.9 to 3.0.9.8.1 (Patch applied to loginserver and portal schema) and the External Applications that were set up have gone from the portlet.
If I go to the "Login Server Administration" portlet and select the link "Administer External Applications" I get a list of 5 External Applications that have previously been set up.
If I go back to the Home Page and select "customize" on the "External Applications" portlet I get the message "Your Login Server administrator has not registered any external applications".
Any ideas why the External Applications portlet cannot see them any more ?
Thanks
Simon

Hello Balakrishnan and Sharmila,
First of all I want to say thank you for trying to help me.
Sharmila, I did exactly what you suggest but it still doesn4t working, I can4t see
the reports in my portlet repository ... I saw many question as mine in this forum
but all of then aren't completely solved. (After I click "OK" in customization form display
options tab, I remembered to do the "Refresh Portlet Repository").
Balakrishnan, I did what you suggest too, the copy was fine, the roport was copy
from one provider to another, but even doing this the report doesn't appear
in the new provider on the portlet repository(I remembered to do the "Refresh Portlet Repository").
Note that my reports are already working inside portal (using "Run as Portlet")
in the "Develop" tab of my component ...
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Does anyone know the best way to connect to an external (non-Oracle) application via SQL or PL/SQL?? I have to run external applications such as MS Word from within an Oracle application. There are several applications which may be used, so I plan to start with a page of options with selection of an option connecting to the external application. Any proven options will be considered.

This may be be very hard to accomplish...
If users are accessing an HTMLDB application, they persumably using a browser. Browsers, by design, aren't allowed to spawn external applications on the client machine-- imagine what would happen if I could put up a web site that opened an arbitrary application on your desktop. In theory, you could probably write an ActiveX/ Java component that could be embedded on pages from HTMLDB and will, with the right security settings, open up application windows. This would be a very complex development, deployment, and maintenance problem, though.
Perhaps if you explain why you want to spawn these applications, we could provide more assistance. It may be as simple as providing a link to a .XLS file stored in the database. When the user clicks on that and downloads the file, the server can identify the content-type of the file and the browser will open the file in whatever application is registered to support that file type.
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http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

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Did you consider using Business Services? I am not sure if they changed the name in PI 7.1 but.. I am talking about having logical systems rather than systems created in SLD.
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Exchange2000)not possible to select External Application ID!

Hello,experts~!
We use Exchange 2000.
But after we use 2 separate machine(Infrastructure and Portal&Wiseless), I couldn't select External Application ID.
When I register 'Exchange 2000 Provider' and pop the External Application ID LOV, I couldn't click the list and retrieve no values to inputbox.
How to solve this problem?
With regards,
Eunjoo

Thank you,Ashish.
And I'm sorry about write this article in this forum.
I did because I didn't know exactly what problem.
I did that work before you said.
Strongly inserted the ID to the inputbox when registering the provider,it's not working as a portlet in a page.
Below is the error when including the portlet to a page.
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The following error occurred when attempting to call the initSession of the Web Provider: EXCHANGE2000
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=========================================================
We use 2 machines.
HP UNIX Infrastructure 9.0.2
COMPAQ NT Portal&Wireless 9.0.2
When we use 1 COMPAQ NT machine, it worked fine.
What's wrong with it?
with regards,
eunjoo

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Hey,
I have a simple external application registered within portal.
I want to have a link from a portlet which deep links into the
application after authenticating. Are there any classes in the
JPDK to allow me to do this ?
Thanks,
Mark

Bar,
Why do you create separate projects? You can have multiple app defs in one project, all generating into their own subdirectories. See chapter on Team-based development in Dev Guide for more info.
Anyway, even with separate projects (meaning separate web applications when running within JDev, you could still deploy everything in one ear file) this can be done. In this case, the deep link should be a goLink rather than a commandLink, and you should pass the deeplink query context as a request parameter, for example
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