Hi Shayz,
Hopefully this will help:
AFAIK, SPServices can be used outside of Sharepoint, but you will come across issues with credential challenges - SharePoint deals with this automatically, without the user knowing about it, hence why its better to work in SharePoint, then outside of it.
I think it would help to know more about this "Sharepoint like" feel that you've been asked to add - is this because you have a number of users who use your apps, but who want to use them as if they were already built into SharePoint, and not standalone? Or - is it a case of your users already use SharePoint, but don't want to have to shell out to a separate app outside of SharePoint?
I ask, as I think it is possible to get iView webparts that can be used to display content built in apps such as Application Express. I've seen this done before with SAP pages in SharePoint 2007, so think it might be worth taking a look? You might need to look at Single Sign-On in SharePoint, which will pass through the authentication values to Oracle - it can be a bit fiddly to set up, depending on which version of SharePoint you use, but it is worth it.
If you can change the focus of where your content is displayed to be in SharePoint, and not in Oracle, then displaying presence icons is a breeze - take a look at something like http://geekswithblogs.net/jacobladams/archive/2011/05/03/use-hmtl-and-javascript-to-display-presence-controls-in-sharepoint.aspx. You will likely need to alter the code a little, to use SPGetCurrentUser - you will need to be using the same user name in both environments for it to work.
Alternatively, if you can produce HTML pages of some description from AE, you can ask one of your SharePoint admins to look at adding the components from a SharePoint master page to it, so it can be used from within SharePoint. Master pages are basically template pages - you can usually incorporate the elements from them into non-SP pages, as long as the original page can be set up as a ASP.NET page.
Hopefully this will help:
AFAIK, SPServices can be used outside of Sharepoint, but you will come across issues with credential challenges - SharePoint deals with this automatically, without the user knowing about it, hence why its better to work in SharePoint, then outside of it.
I think it would help to know more about this "Sharepoint like" feel that you've been asked to add - is this because you have a number of users who use your apps, but who want to use them as if they were already built into SharePoint, and not standalone? Or - is it a case of your users already use SharePoint, but don't want to have to shell out to a separate app outside of SharePoint?
I ask, as I think it is possible to get iView webparts that can be used to display content built in apps such as Application Express. I've seen this done before with SAP pages in SharePoint 2007, so think it might be worth taking a look? You might need to look at Single Sign-On in SharePoint, which will pass through the authentication values to Oracle - it can be a bit fiddly to set up, depending on which version of SharePoint you use, but it is worth it.
If you can change the focus of where your content is displayed to be in SharePoint, and not in Oracle, then displaying presence icons is a breeze - take a look at something like http://geekswithblogs.net/jacobladams/archive/2011/05/03/use-hmtl-and-javascript-to-display-presence-controls-in-sharepoint.aspx. You will likely need to alter the code a little, to use SPGetCurrentUser - you will need to be using the same user name in both environments for it to work.
Alternatively, if you can produce HTML pages of some description from AE, you can ask one of your SharePoint admins to look at adding the components from a SharePoint master page to it, so it can be used from within SharePoint. Master pages are basically template pages - you can usually incorporate the elements from them into non-SP pages, as long as the original page can be set up as a ASP.NET page.