Connect to UCM from Jdeveloper

Integration with Content manager is done so that we can store our document in UCM and further we can use the document manager taskflows to manage the documents in our portal.
There is also a Content presenter which can be used to create and present the document that are stored in UCM.

In order to integrate UCM with Jdeveloper one need to have a UCM server up and running a compatible version of Jdeveloper. I am using Jdeveloper 11.1.1.7 and web center 11.1.1.8 in my case.

The connection to content manager is done using a socket connection so we first need to validate if the server has these information already preconfigured.

Login to em console

http://host:port/em

Go to Web Center-->Content-->Content Server -->Oracle WebCenter Content

Right click on Oracle WebCenterContent and select Configuration and then select INternet Configurations




So your server already has a default configuration and we will use the same to connect from our Jdeveloper.

Open up you Jdeveloper

Go to resource pallete

Say new Connection and select the Content Repository as shown below.

This will come up with a new gui page



Now provide the required information in the GUI

RIDC Socket Type ==socket
Server Host Name ==Name of your server. In my case it is local host
Content Server Listening POrt ==Port configured in em

There are other parameters also but for making a socket connection we can just use these 3 parameters

Once you have provided the required information. Say test and this should give you a sucess message as shown.



Now check in the resource pallete you will find two new folder structure getting created for you. We will use these later in our further learning exercises.