Migrating to Portal 2_4

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CAUTION!!!

Migration tool uses hibernate schema export - beware and always backup your database before playing with it

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To migrate data to portal 2.4 you need to proceed with folowing steps:

-- In you AS with portal 2.2 instance you need to have two datasources pointing to the existing jbp_2.2 database and destination jbp_2.4 database where you want to move your data. So you can make new datasource called "portal-24-ds.xml" looking like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<local-tx-datasource>
    <jndi-name>PortalDS_2_4</jndi-name>
    <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jbossportal24?useServerPrepStmts=false</connection-url>
    <driver-class>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</driver-class>
    <user-name>portal</user-name>
    <password>portalpassword</password>
</local-tx-datasource>

-- Next you need to obtain JBoss Portal 2.4 sources. You can do this by running:

cvs co jboss-portal-2.4

-- Then you need to compile and deploy migration application (you need to have proper JBOSS_HOME env):

cd jboss-portal-2.4
cd build
./build.sh
cd ../migration
./buils.sh deploy

-- Now you should have migration application deployed in your application server instance

-- Run your browser and go to: http://localhost:8080/portal-migration User is: admin and password is: simplePassword

-- Now you just need to go thru several steps with wizzard like web application. Remember to point to correct datasources for source and destination databases - PortalDS and PortalDS_2_4

-- You should have all data migrated to separate database. Now you need to undeploy jbp_2.2 jboss-portal.sar, deploy jbp_2.4 jboss-portal.sar and update descriptors of your portlet to 2.4 format if needed.