Necessary or example portal

[pedalshoe]

Hi,
Is the default portal that is available after installation necessary, for developing a new portal? Or can i disable it and use my portal appear at the same URL?

Also if JBossPortal comes out with another version, how can i upgrade without blowing away any modifications i made? Basically, i need to know what parts of JBoss should not be modified.
Thank you,
-Christopher

[anders3]

That is a good questioin
I have the same problem
1) Each time I upgrade to a newer version of the portal I have to drop all tables
2) I would like to have no default portal as well.

/Anders

[theute]

if you have nothing in the database:
modify jboss-portal.sar/conf/default-object.xml which creates the default portal.

Otherwise use the management portlet to delete the default portal and create a new portal called default.

Good practice is that as long as you can:
- Use the javax.portlet.* classes
- Use the org.jboss.portal.api.* classes
- Use and modify jboss-portal.sar/conf

That's what is planned to stay in the long term.

The schema hasn't changed between 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 you shouldn't have to drop the tables.

[pedalshoe]

Thank you for the response, and also mentioning best practices... If any others or a link to a document that specifies, please pass that along.
Thank you,
-Christopher

[pedalshoe]

The path to default-object.xml is in jboss-portal.sar\conf\data\
NOT in jboss-portal.sar\conf\
-Christopher