running portal using sources

[salman_fd]

Dear all,
I am a developer new to jboss portal and have 2 questions:
1. I have tried to install portal server from sources after building sources and doing some modifications to mySQL schema, server started up without any exceptions. but when i browse to http://localhost:8080/portal i saw portlets messaging: "Cannot render
Object not found JSPPortletInstance"
whats wrong ?
2. which IDE is best suitable for changing some code of portal and then build, run and see the result?
Hope to hear from you.

[julien1]

actually you are doing fine, it's because there are some modules you have not deployed yet which are :

core-samples (containing JSPPortlet)
core-admin
core-management

it is due to the extreme modularity of portal which allows us to break down the core and core-* components in order to increase our productivity by redeploying only the necessary part.

We have project files for intellij idea and eclipse, but we use the build.xml to build and deploy because of the non trivial nature of the build.

[salman_fd]

You are right. some modules are not deployed so i tried to use "build all" instead of "build deploy" to deploy all but following error occured:
...
builddfragments\buildmagic.ent:259: The following error occurred while executing this line:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/collections/Predicate

please let me know your opinion.