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    Matthew Wringe has been working on AS5 support for JBoss Portal and we are now ready to show you a working prototype with the limitations stated at the end of this document.

     

    Prerequisite

    This document supposes that you have Maven and SVN clients installed on your machine.

     

    Download

    First we will need to checkout the sources from SVN so that we can get AS5 deployers and the binaries for the portal itself. Let's download everything now:

    svn co http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/portal/modules/metadata/trunk metadata
    svn co http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/portal/modules/deployer/trunk deployer
    svn co http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/portal/branches/JBoss_Portal_Branch_2_7_AS5 portal
    

     

     

    We will also need JBoss AS 5.1.0.Beta1 obviously (latest available at the time of writing) it is available from here: http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/ or using wget directly (that's the link for JDK6 for JDK5 use the download page):

    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/jboss-5.1.0.Beta1-jdk6.zip
    

    Now unzip this along the other directories.

    unzip jboss-5.1.0.Beta1-jdk6.zip

     

    Once that done you should have 4 directories: jboss-5.1.0.Beta1, metadata, deployer and portal.

    Build

    in metadata do:

    mvn install

    This will install the metadata libraries locally and this is required for the deployer module

    In deployer do:

    mvn package
    

    In portal do:

    export JBOSS_HOME=$PWD/../jboss-5.1.0.Beta1
    sh build/build.sh deploy-all
    

    Install

    The deploy-all target on portal already deployed most of the portal, we still need to copy the AS5 deployer into the application server. Here we will use the default configuration:

    cp -r deployer/deployer/target/jboss-portal.deployer-jboss50.dir/jboss-portal.deployer/ jboss-5.1.0.Beta1/server/default/deployers

    We also need to add a datasource descriptor, attached to this wiki there is one for the Hypersonic which is embedded in AS5, we just need to copy it in the deploy directory

    cp portal-hsqldb-ds.xml jboss-5.1.0.Beta1/server/default/deploy

    Run

    Go to jboss-5.1.0.Beta1 and execute run.sh. When started go to http://localhost:8080/portal

    Limitations / Known issues / Comments

    • Error handling isn't that great and an error in the installation process might end up with hard to decipher errors
    • XML validation is stricter than before, working portlets on AS4 may not work straight out of the box if the descriptors files were not 100% valid. Xml files must also reference which schema they should be validated again (ie schema or doctype reference).
    • jboss-app.xml has been renamed to jboss-portal-app.xml
    • Theming hasn't been moved over to using the microcontainer metadata and deployment
    • The structure has changed from a sar with nested deployables to be individual deployables.
    • It hasn't been heavily tested and we expect some issues to still remain.