Customize Jboss portal to display dynamic contents

[aneiba]

Dear all,

I have Struts EJB application running, but I would like to use Jboss portal as interface for my App, can any body tell how this can be done via tutorial, sample...etc please?

Thanks in advance

Adel

[roy.russo]

Take a look at the Struts Mail sample: http://labs.jboss.com/portal/index.html?ctrl:id=page.default.downloads&project=portletswap&category=.portlets.framework

It uses the Struts Bridge. I warn you that it is not well supported though.

[aneiba]

Thanks Roy,

I downloaded the Struts demo and copy the war file into my jboss deployment foloder, but still not working.

According to you warning, do you know any way to use any an enterprise portal as an interface for Struts application.

Regards,

Adel

[theute]

Struts is not a framework suitable for a portlet environment.

The Struts bridge used in the Struts demo is mostly a hack.

The problem is that Struts processes action and view in 1 event while it is separated in a portlet.

So there can't be real documentation... Since it really depends on your webapp, the bridge could or could not work. Moving to something like JSF could or could not be easy.

[aneiba]

Thank Thomas

But can you tell me how to customize Jboss portal then in order to use it as an enterprise website, have you got any working example to show how dynamic content can be displayed in that portal.

I did download the Jboss portal and now up-running but I could not find any example or tutorial shows how the Jboss portal can be customized and used as a enterprise interface

Thanks in advance

Adel

[theute]

Dynamic content should be provided through portlets (JSR 168 portlet are supported by JBoss Portal)

To produce the content you can use the portlet API directly, or go through a framework like JSF.

First thing to do would be to read the spec http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168