Developing Enterprise Apps with Weblogic and WebGain-Studio

Hi everybody,
Is anybody experienced in developing with Weblogic Server and WebGain-Studio
What could be a good environment for working with these components ?
Thanx,
Markus.

Thanks for your prompt reply. I have another question. I am very new to Java development.
In our environment, WebLogic 10.3.6 and JDK1.7 are both 64-bit. However, developers' machine are 32-bit windows. They will have Weblogic server installed locally in their machines for development. Later, the codes will be deployed and run in the 64-bit environment.
Thus, we are developing java program with 32-bit java and compile/run it with 64-bit java. Is it the right way to do it or do our developers need to use 64-bit windows?
Edited by: nww on Sep 14, 2012 2:51 PM

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1.1. Prerequisites...................................................................... 8
1.2. Applicable Versions............................................................ 8
1.3. Native Portlet Bridges and Standard Portlet Bridges .......... 8
1.4. JSF Portlet Support Roadmap ........................................... 9
1.5. Whitepaper Structure ....................................................... 10
1.6. Look Before You Leap ..................................................... 10
1.7. For More Information........................................................ 10
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2.1. Workshop for WebLogic – WebLogic Portal's Supported IDE 12
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3.1. Creating Your First JSF Portlet......................................... 18
3.2. Essentials of JSF Portlet Views........................................ 21
3.3. WebLogic Portal Artifacts................................................. 22
4. Configuring JSF within WebLogic Portal Chapter..................... 24
4.1. JSF Library Modules in WebLogic Server ........................ 24
4.2. Installing the JSF Libraries into a Portal Web Project ....... 25
4.3. JSF Configuration Settings............................................... 27
4.4. Configuring JSF 1.2 ......................................................... 29
4.5. Building an Unsupported JSF Implementation Library Module 31
4.6. Faces Configuration is Web Application Scoped.............. 31
5. Navigation within a JSF Portlet Chapter................................... 33
5.1. Navigating within a Portlet with the JSF Controller ........... 33
5.2. Redirects.......................................................................... 34
6. Namespacing Chapter ............................................................. 35
6.1. Namespacing Managed Bean Names.............................. 35
6.2. Client ID Namespacing with the View and Subview Components 35
6.3. Client ID Namespacing with the WLP NamingContainer .. 36
7. Logging, Iterative Development, and Debugging Chapter ........ 39
7.1. Logging............................................................................ 39
7.2. Iterative Development ...................................................... 39
7.3. Debugging ....................................................................... 40
8. Custom JavaScript Chapter ..................................................... 42
8.1. DOM Manipulation within a JSF ....................................... 42
8.2. Form Validation within a JSF Portlet ................................ 45
9. Preparing JSF Portlets for Production Chapter ........................ 46
9.1. Configuration.................................................................... 46
9.2. Performance and Scalability............................................. 47
9.3. Security............................................................................ 49
9.4. Localization...................................................................... 50
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10.1. Container Architecture Overview.................................. 54
10.2. Container Architecture.................................................. 54
10.3. Container Interactions .................................................. 55
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11.3. Notifications ................................................................. 60
11.4. Comparison of the IPC Approaches ............................. 60
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15.2. Changing the Active Portal Page.................................. 80
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16.3. Stateless API Request Pattern ..................................... 86
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17. Additional WLP Features Chapter........................................ 93
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17.3. Portal Container Features ............................................ 98
18. Example: Implementing a Login Portlet Chapter .................. 99
18.1. Login Portlet Motivation................................................ 99
18.2. Login Portlet Design..................................................... 99
18.3. Login Portlet Implementation...................................... 101
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19. Integration Overview Chapter............................................. 111
19.1. Types of Libraries....................................................... 111
19.2. Roadmap for MyFaces Trinidad and ADF Faces Rich Client 111
20. Using the Facelets View Technology Chapter.................... 113
20.1. Introduction to Facelets .............................................. 113
20.2. Configuring Facelets Support ..................................... 113
21. Using the Apache MyFaces Tomahawk Component Library Chapter 115
21.1. What is Apache MyFaces Tomahawk? ...................... 115
21.2. Support for Tomahawk in WLP................................... 115
21.3. Tomahawk Component List........................................ 116
21.4. Installing and Configuring Tomahawk......................... 119
21.5. Resolving the Duplicate ID Issue................................ 120
21.6. Referring to Resources .............................................. 120
21.7. forceId Attribute.......................................................... 124
21.8. File Upload................................................................. 125
22. Using the Apache Beehive Navigation Controller Chapter . 126
22.1. Apache Beehive Page Flow ....................................... 126
22.2. JSF and Page Flows .................................................. 126
22.3. Configuring the JSF Integration with Page Flows ....... 127
Appendices
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24. Appendix 2: Known Issues and Workarounds.................... 132
24.1. CR383659, CR383662 Inconsistent failures with JSF portlets 132
24.2. CR342124: IllegalStateException due to duplicate client-id 132
24.3. CR384916: IllegalStateException due to duplicate client-id when using certain components such as Tomahawk and Trinidad...... 133
24.4. CR361477 Problems with the integration of JSF portlets with Apache Beehive Page Flows.................................................................. 133
24.5. CR377945 JSF 1.2 suffers from a memory leak during iterative development .............................................................................. 134
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First, I wish to thank you for the great work.
We followed your whitepaper and managed to deploy a JSF portlet on WLS.
But we are not able to register it (consume it) as remote portlet in Oracle Portal 10.1.4. The error log is as follows:
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java.rmi.RemoteException: serialization error: serialization error:
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serialization error: serialization error: unexpected null value for literal data
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com.sun.xml.rpc.encoding.SerializationException: serialization error:
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at
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Thanks in advance.
Steve Whatmore
[email protected]

Michael,
Here is a copy of a message that I recieved on one of the WebGain
newsgroups, obviously there is a little bit of work required. I have yet to
actually try/confirm the attached solution.
included message follows:
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>
Hello all,
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>
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[email protected]
Ian R. Brandt
Software Engineer
Genomics Collaborative, Inc.
99 Erie Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)661-2400 Ext.2244
(617)661-8899 FAX
[email protected]
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news:[email protected]...
>
>
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Michael Girdley
BEA Systems Inc
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If you want you can also reply to me @ [email protected].
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Can I avoid re-encoding of .mov files with Compressor and DVD Studio Pro?

Hello,
I've had some projects banned at one of the tracking sites because my iMovie 6.0.1/iDVD 7.1.1 workflow involves re-encoding of the iMovie .mov file to MPEG 2 when authored in iDVD. I did some research, and was advised that I could get around the re-encoding by using Compressor and DVD Studio Pro instead of iDVD. But, when I import the iMovie file to Compressor for authoring in DVD Studio Pro, the result is another MPEG 2 file. So, am I missing something, or is there no way for me to avoid re-encoding with Apple video production tools.
Thanks for any assistance.

The simple fact that you have to encode your files into an mpeg-2 stream means that you're going to experience a loss in quality. Check the bitrate of your DV files. The max bitrate for all of the elementary steams (audio, video) on a DVD is 9.8mbps. So if your source has a higher bitrate than that... you're going to experience "lossiness."
However there are some tricks that I've read about that increase the overall quality of compression... and yes they are for windows. Check out AVIsynth and MeGUI... there is a learning curve to learning these tools though. I never followed through with it.
EDIT: Also forgot to mention that learning these things takes TIME. Quality encoding takes much longer than realtime.
You can also check out some higher quality mpeg2 encoders like cinemacraft and HC encoder, although the former costs $$$. The quality you get from these encoders are much better than what you have in iDVD and DVDSP/Compressor.

New version of app with subscription and newsstand support not visible in App Store

This might be more question aimed on Apple Support, but maybe someone had similar experience. Today at morning i've released new version of App for customer. This version have two main news - support for newsstand and subscription. Old version disappeared from App Store, but new one is not visible on any market. i'm quite confused, anyone have idea what happened?

Hi, Steven and Martin
I have this porblem now. My app is out from app store, because I delete the subscription in my app with newsstabd enable.
I'm a little confused, because I submit a new subscription - with a new product ID - because I can't reuse the first.
Apple don´t allow me update a new app without newsstand. Until now I hadn´t answer from apple about the new subscription and my app continuous nor visible in app store, but the status is "ready to sale".
At least, Apple should me send a message about this issue.
All the problem started because I set the tier price to subscription the same value to retail price (tier 3), then when I changed the tier price to amount the period subscription - 6 months (tier 90). This price (tier 90) was set to the retail folios too, so my magazine turned the most expensive in App Store!!!
Please, I'd like and I need to understand better how set differents prices to retail and subscription, because something happened wrong in my first try

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