Are you able to create TEST and PRODUCTION portals?

[shaunenslin]

Hi
Is it possible to create a portal in JBOSS portals on a development machine and then somehow export what we have done on DEV to the PROD machine?

So we want to do our work locally in terms of developing the Portal with its relevent pages, portlets, windows etc. and then send it to PROD when we are finished.

Is it as simple as zipping the "default" folder under JBOSS Server folder and then unzipping on the production box?

[zerrt]

If you define all of your pages, portlets, portlet instances, security constraints, roles, etc in the xml file descriptors instead of using the management portlet then yes, you can basically copy your configuration folder over and it should work. If you do anything in the management portlet to set up your portal, those changes will not be carried over. The only way to copy changes not specified in the descriptors would be to export the tables from your test database.

[peterj]

zerrt is right, descriptor files are the way to go when defining a portal. The only thing I haven't been able to define in a descriptor file is login accounts and roles (someone prove me wrong, please).