modifying the jboss portal programatically with portal core

[fredf]

I am developing some portlets using JBoss seam 1.0 and JBoss Portal 2.6.
A want to use the Portal Core API in order to add portal objects programatically, e.g. portlet instances to pages and pages to portals.
I have looked at how the included manager portlet accomplishes this. I figured out that I need an instance of the PortalObjectManagerBean and then call some methods on it.

The manager portlet uses dependency injection via the faces-config.xml and sets up various properties on the bean. I have copied that managed bean to my faces-config.xml and set getters and setters in my pojo to my attribute of class PortalObjectManagerBean but it is null when I access it.
If I explicitly create a new object all other properties of the bean is still null. I access the portal core api from a pojo that in turn is called by an seam action class.

How do I get an instance of the managerbean? Have anyone done this before and want to give me any help?

[julien1]

If you are using a web application you should look at the file WEB-INF/jboss-portlet.xml of portal-core.war which provides the capability to inject services in the servlet context of the web application

[fredf]

If you are using a web application you should look at the file WEB-INF/jboss-portlet.xml of portal-core.war which provides the capability to inject services in the servlet context of the web application

Ok, so I use the tag in WEB-INF/jboss-portlet.xml. But then I can only reach these defined services through the portletcontext in a portlet class. I am using Seam which has its own generic portlet (I hope to be able to use that as far as possible). Is there no way for me to inject the entire PortalObjectManagerBean in my seam context or do I have to mime its behavoiur in my own service class?

Maybe this is a question for the seam forum? (although its got to do with portal core)



Fredrik

[julien1]

actually they are injected in the servlet context of the web application.

the portlet context is a mere wrapper of the servlet context.

[fredf]

actually they are injected in the servlet context of the web application.

the portlet context is a mere wrapper of the servlet context.

Ok, thanks. I have solved the task in another way (the solution with the mbeanserver inside a transaction). I reed this post:

http://jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=87301&view=next


I have now created a page. I want to put a portlet inside it. I have found the method of page createWindow(String name) but how do I specify the portlet instance to be shown in the window? There is no create instance of Window class.

Fredrik

[julien1]

On the Window interface there is a setInstanceRef(String s) which takes the instance ref of the portlet instance.