Oracle Syndication Server. User’s and Administrator’s Guide

Srivastava A., Han C., Lin P.

Oracle Syndication Server is an extensible content syndication server designed to syndicate any Internet content to any Internet subscriber, using any Internet communication protocol in a secure way It provides extensibility at multiple levels; it supports all available communication mechanisms with the content subscriber, including the Information and Content Exchange (ICE) Version 1.1 protocol, while it allows access using a multitude of channels to Internet resources, enterprise portals, corporate databases, and conventional file systems. Oracle Syndication Server features a comprehensive administration system to persistently maintain subscriptions and profiles for subscribers and content providers. Subscribers can choose to actively request content from Oracle Syndication Server, or have it automatically delivered to them.This guide is for developers who want to easily and more quickly develop and manage content subscription services for subscribers accessing information from content providers. An understanding of Oracle 9i, Oracle Dynamic Services, Java, and XML is required.

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Table of contents :
User’s and Administrator’s Guide……Page 1
List of Examples……Page 6
List of Figures……Page 7
List of Tables……Page 8
Send Us Your Comments……Page 9
Organization……Page 11
Related Documents……Page 12
Documentation Accessibility……Page 13
1.1 Content Syndication Concepts……Page 15
1.1.1 Business Problems or Technical Challenge……Page 16
1.2 Syndication Server Solution……Page 17
1.3 Overview of Concepts……Page 20
1.4.1 Content Subscribers……Page 23
1.4.3 Content Provider Extensibility Through Oracle Dynamic Services……Page 24
1.5.2 Reviewing Catalog Offerings……Page 27
1.5.5.2 Dynamic Services Content Provider Adaptor……Page 28
1.5.5.3 Transport Protocol Manager……Page 29
2.1 System Requirements……Page 31
2.2 Syndication Server Distribution……Page 32
2.3 Installing, Configuring, and Testing Oracle Syndication Server……Page 33
2.4 Configuring the Sample Content Provider Adaptors and Services……Page 37
2.5 Syndication Server Configuration……Page 41
3.1 Configuring and Running the OSSAdmin Utility……Page 43
3.1.1 Configuring the OSSAdmin Utility……Page 44
3.1.2 Running the OSSAdmin Utility……Page 45
4.1.1 Writing New Services……Page 47
4.1.3.3 Function for “ice-get-package”……Page 48
4.2.1 Allowing Subscribers to See the New Content Provider……Page 49
4.3 Adding Push Delivery Mechanisms Using Oracle Dynamic Services……Page 50
4.3.3.1 Input Schema……Page 51
4.3.4 Registering the Service……Page 52
5.1 Syndication Server Runtime System Administration……Page 53
5.2 Subscriber Profile Management……Page 54
5.4 Subscription Management……Page 55
6 Known Issues and Problems……Page 57
A Frequently Asked Questions……Page 59
B Links……Page 61
C.1.2 3nn: Payload Level Status Codes……Page 63
C.1.3 4nn: Request Level Status Codes……Page 65
C.1.5 6nn: Pending State……Page 69
C.2.1 7nn: Local Use Codes – Reserved for Use by the Local ICE Implementation……Page 70
Glossary……Page 73
Index……Page 77