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Thursday, 14 July 2011

Is SiteStudio dead?

Oracle have restructured their products and acquired Fatwire. Somewhere along the line they've decided to rename (or absorb?) the ECM suite into something called "WebCenter Content." Not sure where all this is heading but my guess is that it is probably the end of SiteStudio websites.

The concepts of sections, secondary pages and publishing are probably too confusing for most people. Since Oracle released 11g they have been pushing SiteStudio for External Applications (SSXA) - which basically means SiteStudio became an SOA plugin that lets users edit UCM content from any sort of web page. I presume they'll continue to include the rest of the website functionality but it will either be superseded by (or buried under) other stuff.

Does anyone agree... or do you think that I'm way off the mark?
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous17 July 2011 at 12:30

    man...I think the Webcenter now will be the front-end for Oracle ECM products....something like Sharepoint that is either a Portal or a ECM solution...and the cost is cheaper than Webcenter...

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  2. Bex19 July 2011 at 09:47

    I don't think its dead...

    FatWire and Site Studio have different features and solve different problems. It would take a lot of development effort to make FatWire do everything that Site Studio does. Plus, that wouldn't make sense anyway since UCM integrates nicely with just about everything.

    It's noting like what happened when Oracle bought BEA, in which OC4J was just plain toast...

    Nevertheless, learning FatWire should be on your "things to do" list ;-)

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  3. James W28 July 2011 at 10:25

    And there is no way an ADF-based WebCenter site could replace a Site Studio site.

    - The markup produced is way too complex, limiting flexibility and potentially causing problems with accessibility and SEO.

    - It would take an order of magnitude greater effort to get things "just right".

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  4. Kannan Ramakrishnan9 September 2011 at 16:12

    Hi all,
    Anyone can help me to use SSXA without using JDeveloper. i want to check-out and edit and save back(check-in) to UCM.
    thanks in advance,
    kannan

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  5. webmonkeymagic9 September 2011 at 17:49

    It's a simple request that doesn't require SSXA or JDeveloper. Try posting your question on the Oracle forums.
    forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=390

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