Questions on WebCenter

All,
I have few questions on webcenter.
How easy/difficult is to integrate the content serach (UCM and Database + Discussion server) any pointers to resources/books is helppul.
How does the customization/personlization works in protal application and is it relatively straight forward to manage it, I mean exporting for runtime environment into Jdeveloper and then importing back into run times/ any pointers to resources/books please.
How best is skin handled in web center? Is it possible to departments have there own skin ann able to change it at run time and how much effrot is invloved in it?
I'll appreciiate if you guys can point to effort involved for a individual who has understanding of these concepts but it will his forst project!!
Regards
Edited by: user4609640 on 27-Jun-2012 03:44

Here are my views
How easy/difficult is to integrate the content serach (UCM and Database + Discussion server) any pointers to resources/books is helppul.
1) Check the below links
Content server integration http://yonaweb.be/webcenter_11g_ps3_tutorial_introduction_content_integration
Discussion server integration http://yonaweb.be/webcenter_tutorial/integrating_discussions_and_link_service
How does the customization/personlization works in protal application and is it relatively straight forward to manage it, I mean exporting for runtime environment into Jdeveloper and then importing back into run times/ any pointers to resources/books please.
2) using oracle composer in webcenter you can achive the same, yes it uses MDS to store the runtime data to sync
How best is skin handled in web center? Is it possible to departments have there own skin ann able to change it at run time and how much effrot is invloved in it?
3)yes its possbile to change the skins and temapletes at runtime, for the end the user its a matter of selecting the new skin/template at runtime using webcenter framework feature, coming to developers effort point of view it will take hardly 50 man hrs to develop the same(as per my exp),

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