Customizing Webcenter components

Hi,
We are building an application to manipulate content server objects and are thinking of two option: one is to use RIDC and build our own presentation tier. another is to use existing components such as Document Manager and customize them to suite our needs.
So far we have not been able to find enough documentation on how to customize these out of the box components. To give an example, When a document is uploaded, we requiire to populate metadata such as author name, security group the document belongs to and so on. Another example is when a document is created we want to attach a workflow to that document.
Are there any recommendations? If customizing existing taskflows is a better option, can you provide us links to the resources?
We have tried Oracle documentation and some of the blogs, and everytime we run in some exception or the other. I will refrain from posting those exceptions here as our developers have raised those questions in other threads.
Thanks and Regards

This post contains many disputable points:
Hi,
We are building an application to manipulate content server objects and are thinking of two option: one is to use RIDC and build our own presentation tier. another is to use existing components such as Document Manager and customize them to suite our needs.What is this application about, what is its purpose? Having mentioned Document Manager of WebCenter Portal, you might want to create a WebCenter Framework-based app. I'm not sure if you can customize WebCenter task flows in such a way - nevertheless, this is definitely a question to WebCenter Portal forum.
>
So far we have not been able to find enough documentation on how to customize these out of the box components. To give an example, When a document is uploaded, we requiire to populate metadata such as author name, security group the document belongs to and so on. Another example is when a document is created we want to attach a workflow to that document. I don't think you will be able to check-in an item without providing mandatory metadata (such as security group), and even changing them later is not exactly what you should do (even though it is possible). As for workflows, UCM can handle that for you without customizing the front-end. Maybe, you should get someone who has UCM experience and who would help you to construct the overall architecture.
>
Are there any recommendations? If customizing existing taskflows is a better option, can you provide us links to the resources?
We have tried Oracle documentation and some of the blogs, and everytime we run in some exception or the other. I will refrain from posting those exceptions here as our developers have raised those questions in other threads.
Thanks and Regards

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It's not officially documented yet, as is the case with creating
components in general, but here's what you do:
You have the ability to extract arbitrary files from a component library jar file into the web app's file system. This allows
libraries to automatically unpack files like additional jars,
images, pagelets, etc. All that's needed to take advantage of this
new feature is to create a hierarchy of files in the complib under
a "webapp" directory (off the root). The files under that directory
will then be automatically extracted into the web context's
filesystem.
>
For example:
/webapp/test/foo.html
will extract to
<context root>/test/foo.html
and the following
/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/foo.jar
will extract to
<context root>/WEB-INF/lib/foo.jar
Anything not under the "webapp" dir in the component jar file will stay packaged in the jar file.
>
Does that make sense?
craig
Keyur Shah wrote:
hi ...
i have just about started using jato in conjunction with S1Studio
and find it a real great asset ...
we are trying to build custom jato components which can be
packaged
into a jar file and used like any other standard jato component ...
>>
e.g. i have developed this date component which is basically a
composition of 3 comboboxes - one each for m/d/y ...
to render these 3 comboboxes i have a "date" tag (DateTag.java)
which basically includes a file Date.jsp in the parent jsp - the
contents of Date.jsp:
<jato:pagelet>
<jato:combobox name="month"/>
<jato:combobox name="day"/>
<jato:combobox name="year"/>
</jato:pagelet>
The problem with this approach is that I can't package a JSP in a
jar since the web server would not be able to determine the path to
the jsp ...
Can any of u direct me here? ... Also, if u have an example of a
similar packaged custom jato component - that'd be of great help!
thanks much,
keyur
To download the latest version of JATO, please visit:
http://www.sun.com/software/download/developer/5102.html
For more information about JATO, please visit:
http://developer.iplanet.com/tech/appserver/framework/index.jsp
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<sorry about the 'Hello All' subject in the previous post>
I am creating a Backgammon game for my JAVA programming class. I would like to design a board and have certain checker pieces that can be dragged around on the board. In the course I am taking, I still have not been able to understand how a GUI interface has GUI components that is "custom built" like my checker class. My checker class below draws a picture of a checker on a JPanel. I want it to exist inside a JPanel(that has a board painted in it) with 30 checkers that can be moved around. Any feedback would be appreciated including helpful packages, classes, trails, etc.
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.util.Random;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.BasicStroke;
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public int getPosition(){
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public void setPosition(int pos){
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Um... pretty much the way you are doing it in the code you already posted. What is the problem? Not that there's not problems....
1) setBackground called in paintComponent doesn't do much. Just set the background outside paint and super.paintComponent() will fill the BG color if the component isn't opaque.
2) a checker, I would expect, would be opaque, actually.
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