What is Oracle Application Server Discoverer Portlet Provider?
Oracle Application Server Portal is a component of Oracle Application Server that enables non-technical business users to create portals. Portals are Internet or intranet sites that provide a personalized, single point of interface with a company’s suite of applications. Using OracleAS Portal, e-business users are able to connect employees, partners, and suppliers with the information they need as well as the flexibility to create views tailored to each community. A portlet allows you to display a snippet of information on a portal page, thereby providing basic access to an information source. The OracleAS Discoverer Portlet Provider is the content delivery mechanism used to publish Discoverer data in OracleAS Portal. The Discoverer Portlet Provider enables users to publish two types of Discoverer portlets: a worksheet portlet – that displays a Discoverer worksheet in a portal, and a list of workbooks portlet – that displays a list of Discoverer workbooks in a portal.