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Simplify Your WCS Controllers With Your Own Asset Reader

Posted by David Chesebro on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - 09:47 Development, Web Experience Management 12c, Oracle WebCenter Sites, Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c, Groovy, Asset Reader

Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c introduced the new Asset Reader API. While you may not be ready to use it in your code - maybe your existing DAOs are working just fine or perhaps for performance reasons - you might be thinking: "Wouldn't it be nice if my controller code was this short and simple?" With a few simple code...

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WebCenter Sites 12c Performance with Asset Reader API and Groovy

Posted by Rick Ptasznik on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 07:17 Development, Web Experience Management WebCenter Sites 12c, performance, Groovy
WebCenter Sites 12c introduces a number of new APIs to use when building out your sites. The developer documentation puts an emphasis on using an MVC approach that is aided by the new groovy controllers and reader APIs including the new asset reader API. Using an MVC approach to build out a site allows for a nice and clean separation of your business logic from the display logic. You can see the official documenation on all the APIs at http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1221/wcs/wcs-develop.htm and also at...
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Installing Eclipse Groovy Plugin

Posted by Issa Ennab on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 10:21 Cool Tools, Development, Web Experience Management Eclipse, Groovy, WebCenter Sites
     ­­­As of WebCenter Sites 11g, Groovy is supported when used as an element type. It is suitable for when what you want to implement some business logic/computation in a familiar JAVA syntax-scripting environment (1). Groovy Language has a lot of features that are GROOVY! You need to install the Eclipse Groovy Plugin (if you are using eclipse as your IDE) for better development experience, error checking, code completion, code coloring, and etc. 

How to install Eclipse Groovy Plugin:

1-    In your Eclipse in the top...
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