Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Creating a map portlet for Oracle
Portal : "I was asked the other day to provide and example of how one
might integrate Oracle Location technologies and mapping with Oracle Portal.
Although there are many ways to do this, my immediate thought was, well, what
kind of information does this portal already provide? Because Oracle Portal is
an INCREDIBLE integration technology for any and all web applications and
content, I figured there were a few things that the Portal developer would have
to ask first. Like:

1. What technologies are already built into the Portal
   architecture/framework that can be used to leverage existing location data?
2. Will users need to see the information in tabular/report-based formats
   rather than just as maps?
3. What technologies are the portal and map developers comfortable
   developing in?

Because the user-base I was targeting for this project are primarily users
whom already use Oracle Discoverer for business intelligence, and also use
end-user layers (EUL) that were built to query location information (see

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/lokitz_location.html for
instructions on how to do this) I figured the next logical step would be to add
the functionality so that those same users would be able to see ALL of the
information, tabular and maps, on the same page sort of a BI dashboard. As I
had already built some dynamic JSP maps for the Discoverer project, I decided to
use those same maps within the portal framework." Read the rest on how
Justin Lokitz built a dynamic map portlet using Oracle Portal (10g), the JPDK
and Oracle Application Server MapViewer in in
Justin’s OraGIS
blog.

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