ur doing it wrong...(debugging portlets in .NET that is)

Wow, can't believe how dumb i've been. Just now realized that you can tell Visual Studio to use the locall IIS web server instead of the Visual Studio Development Server. (Just right click on the project, properties, click on the web tab, and click "Use Local IIS web server". This allows you to debug portlets without having to attach to the asp.net process. Awesome.

update: looks like you don't get the same configuration choice in the Website project type, only Web Application projects...

Remove extra html markup from visual studio for portlets without it complaining

I usually just delete the , tags etc from a portlet page in visual studio, but it always causes annoying side effects like my autocomplete stops working and everything throws a 'does not validate' warning. Its probably obvious, but i got around this by putting in inline code snippets around my extra html tags that only displayed them if its not gatewayed...

This was VS doens't have a fit and you still don't get extra body tags in your portal. Have a better way of doing it? Let me know.

My first Blog Post aka Griping about Oracle's Edelivery

Welcome! This is my attempt at a Plumtree/ALUI/WCI blog. Hope you find it not completely useless.

I was recently reading Bill's Blog and lo and behold I see that Oracle has just released new versions of WebCenter Interaction and its related products. I immediately jumped over to edelivery.oracle.com and was blown away at how hard it is to find anything there.

Gripes, in order of my experiencing them:

1. How can I find out about new products? You would think that the download link on the WCI page would take you to something useful instead of JDeveloper.
   
2. You can't search on edelivery (Don't be fooled by "Media Pack Search", its just a selection list with a go button)
3. WCI is already very confusingly named by being very similar to the WebCenter line of products which have nothing to do with WCI.
4. WCI is hidden inside the Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Pack. Luckily I knew this already, so I "searched" on this Product Pack to find a media pack.
5. After going to one.bea.com, I found out that the media pack that i want is the Oracle® Application Server 10g Release 3 (10.1.3) Media Pack. Makes perfect sense.
6. Once you select a media pack you are presented with 141 mostly unrelated products that you then have to wade through to find the ones that you want. (Remember, no searching.) If you find them, you have to guess if they are newer versions than the ones you already have because there are no release dates on the files.
7. Once you download the right file, it has a perfecly useful name like B43504-01.zip.

I imagine that it was really easy to download the portal from Plumtree. It probably got a little harder with BEA but at least it wasn't too hard to find "Aqualogic". Now its like finding a needle in a haystack. And where are the equivalent of edocs.bea.com?