WebCenter Portal - Sitemap Customization

Sitemap customization within WebCenter Portal is a lot easier than it may seem.

Within web.xml the sitemap servlet is defined as per below.

Conveniently, there is also a method available to retrieve the default sitemap. This sitemap is generated from the default-navigation-model.xml.

import oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.preference.PortalPreferences;

String siteMap = "";
siteMap = PortalPreferences.getInstance().getSiteMap();

As such all you need to do is perform a find and replace within the siteMap string in order to manipulate your result or return your own customized sitemap from the servlet.

A sample of the full servlet is below:

package test_portal.portal.servlet;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;

import oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.preference.PortalPreferences;

public class SiteMapServlet extends HttpServlet {
 
    transient ServletConfig config = null;

    public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
      this.config = config;
      super.init(config);
    }

    public void doGet(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest httpRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse httpResponse) throws IOException {

        httpResponse.setContentType("text/xml");

        PrintWriter out = httpResponse.getWriter();
        String siteMap = "";
        siteMap = PortalPreferences.getInstance().getSiteMap();
        siteMap = siteMap.replaceAll("/faces/testNav","http://sample.com");
        siteMap = siteMap.replaceAll("/faces/home","http://sample.com/");
        siteMap = siteMap.replaceAll("\\?wcnav.model=%2Foracle%2Fwebcenter%2Fportalapp%2Fnavigations%2Fdefault-navigation-model","");
        siteMap = siteMap.replaceAll("</loc>","</loc> \r <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>");

        out.println(siteMap);

        out.close();

    }
 
}