PageContainer in 2.2 source tree but not found in 2.2.1-SP2

[ezraepstein]

The subject says it all. I'm looking for the newer code that shows up not only in the 2.4 branch of the portal code base but was also added to the 2.2 branch. I can find the code in CVS but not .class files in the .jars in the binary download. Anyone else exp. this?

We're trying to code against the newer APIs (notably PageContainer et. al.)

Thanks.

[ezraepstein]

Well, the obvious turned out to be right: the CVS pull didn't bring down the 2.2 branch... Via FishEye I found the code I wanted to see...

[julien1]

Any interesting stuff you want to do with PageContainer and such ?

[ezraepstein]

Yes, we're writing out own management portlet to have a different l&f and to support finer-grained access control. Creating new pages is supported (or will be) and hence the question about PageContainer.

On the subject of source, I re-pulled the jboss-portal-2.2 branch and I wonder whether it was correctly tagged in CVS: what I see is the code that was merged into the 2.4 mainline branch. I.e., the re-pulled 2.2 code shows PageContainer and many other classes that don't exist in the 2.2 libraries. I pulled from Eclipse's built-in "New > Project... > CVS > Checkout Projects from CVS" feature.

[roy.russo]

Why are you rewriting the management portlet? Why not add to the current one and contribute it back for the community to benefit?

[ezraepstein]

We may well do that. We're currently writing it with Tapestry, however. We find JSF problematic on many levels (I could go into details, but would rather do that offline). Will JBoss community accept Tapestry-dependent portlets?

[julien1]

The thing is that we are going to rewrite the management portlets for the 2.6 release in order to have them more powerful and simple.

We will probably continue to use JSF. What did you find wrong with JSF ?