Oracle Webcenter Portal 11.1.1.6 VirtualBox: Installing Webcenter Portlet Producers

Overview

In order to integrate some existing web site content/functionality into your Webcenter Portal, you'll likely need to have the provided Portlet Producers Omniportlet and Web Clipping portlet installed in your Webcenter virtual machine.  These make integrating with existing sites much easier and quicker than a home-grown solution, but will need to be installed if you're using the Oracle VirtualBox VM that includes Webcenter Portal.

Prerequisites

First, you'll have to download the VirtualBox VM that runs Webcenter Portal from Oracle at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/learnmore/vmsoa-172279.html.

Second, you should have already installed it, and then started it up per the instructions at the site above.  In my case I have configured the "domain" wc_spaces, since I want to setup to use Webcenter Portal: Spaces locally.

Take a Backup/Snapshot of the VirtualBox Image

Of course nothing will go wrong, right?!?!  But just in case, make sure you at least snapshot your VM prior to following these steps.

Adding Webcenter Portal Portlet Producers

Since the virtual machine does not include the Omniportlet and Web Clipping portlet out of the box, you'll need to install these and integrate the new WC_Portlet server installed into the VMConfig application Oracle ships with the virtual machine.