Portlet title not working for my own portlet

[tschmidt2]

Hello everyone,

after successfully deploying the HelloWorld portlet I started extending it with some functionality. I basically just copied the HelloWorld.war, edited all neccessary xml files and wrote some portlet code. Now everything works fine except the title of the portlet.

I'm refering to the following lines in portlet.xml:

 <portlet-info>
 <title>My HelloWorld Portlet</title>
 </portlet-info>

I can change this to any string I like and it shows up correctly.

but my own portlet only shows "null".

Any ideas ?

Greetings

Thorsten

[tschmidt2]

I just realized a possible connection, the maximize/minimize/normal buttons do not have an effect either (contrary to the helloworld portlet). I really don't understand this, the only real difference is some naming changes and more portlet sourcecode...

[julien1]

does your portlet extends javax.portlet.GenericPortlet ?

[tschmidt2]

Hello,

actually I was implementing javax.portlet.Portlet. Now I changed that to extend GenericPortlets. Since I'm overriding the render method (which obviously is the reason for not showing up the title in the first place) I now tried to call the super.render method, however this doesnt work either.

Greetings Thorsten

[mholzner]

are you overwriting the init(PortletConfig config) method ? If so, don't forget to call super() there.

 public void init(PortletConfig config) throws PortletException
 {
 super(config);
 // .........
 }

the config holds the information about the title, so if you don't propagate it, the title won't be available to the portal.