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This Web site contains information for WebLogic Portal 7.0 Service Pack 4. The What's New page describes major feature additions or enhancements. For enhancement details not shown on this page, see the Release Notes.
What's New in Service Pack 1 Here's what's new in WebLogic Portal 7.0 Service Pack 1: Documentation The following sections were added to the WebLogic Portal Development Guide: A chapter called "Building Custom Templates," which shows how to create your own templates for use in the domain and portal wizards. (http://edocs.bea.com/wlp/docs70/dev/tmplts.htm) A section that provides instructions for manually deploying portals created with the Portal Wizard. (http://edocs.bea.com/wlp/docs70/dev/deploy.htm) A section about constructing content queries using the WebLogic Portal Expression package. (http://edocs.bea.com/wlp/docs70/dev/conmgmt.htm) In the WebLogic Portal JavaServer Page Guide, information was added to the "Personalization JSP Tags" section showing how content JSP tags map to WebLogic Portal's content management service provider interface. (http://edocs.bea.com/wlp/docs70/jsp/p13njsp.htm) What's New in WebLogic Portal 7.0 Here's what's new in WebLogic Portal 7.0: Support for WebLogic Server 7.0 WebLogic Portal 7.0 supports WebLogic Server 7.0. They are both components of WebLogic Platform 7.0. New Wizards The new graphical Portal and Portlet Wizards enable you to quickly and easily create portals and portlets, based on existing templates. You can find more information about these wizards in the Developing Portals—Tutorial. The Portlet Wizard provides the ability to generate portlets from Web Services, including those built using WebLogic Workshop. Template for the Configuration Wizard The Configuration Wizard automatically sets up (and registers with WebLogic Server) the server configuration you specify, provides predefined system administrator roles, lays down the necessary resources to use the default tax and payment Web services, and sets up a working Tools Web application for administration. When you select the WebLogic Portal domain template, the Configuration Wizard also prepares the Enterprise JavaBeans necessary for commerce and campaign functionality, as well as those that support BEA-provided events, rules, user management, pipelines, LDAP support, and personalization. Improvements to the E-Business Control Center The E-Business Control Center (EBCC) is a graphical user interface that provides tools for developing Portal and Web sites. The EBCC now uses a central project file for easier management of EBCC data, and includes context-sensitive help that guides users if and when they need it. For more information, see the E-Business Control Center online help. Addition of Visitor-Editable Portal Tab Names This feature allows developers and administrators to set up portals so that end-users can modify the text on the tabs by which they navigate. For more information, see Visitor and Administrator Features in the Portal Example - Visitor and Administrator Features tour. New Portlet Organization Capabilities The E-Business Control Center now enables you to group portlets into categories. This make portlets easier to manage and classify for different users, including administrators, developers, and visitors. Sample Portal Application In addition to the Platform End-to-End Sample Application, WebLogic Portal provides a second portal sample application, Avitek Financial (described in the Portal Example - Portlet Features and Functionality tour). This application provides many sample portlets and an enterprise financial services portal that highlights portal foundation services, intelligent administration, integration services, personalization and interaction management. New Document Structure The documentation for WebLogic Portal has been streamlined to make finding the information you need quicker and easier. In addition to three tours, it now includes more procedural information and several tutorials that help you build and administer portals and Web site.