Access and display content stored in CMS

[sjewett]

Hi All,

My environment info:

JBoss App Server 4.2.2 GA
JBoss Portal 2.6.3 GA (binary, not bundled)
Windows XP
Oracle 9i database

My question: I've written a simple portlet (extends GenericPortlet). I also have an html page stored in the CMS. How do I display my html page as content in my portlet?

Do I use a PortletRequestDispatcher? And if so, what's the path to the html stored in CMS?

This seems really basic, but I've been looking at the Ref Guide, and I can't seem to achieve this.

Thank you.

[sjewett]

My portlet class looks like this:

public class RetailMarketingPortlet extends GenericPortlet {

 protected void doView(RenderRequest rRequest, RenderResponse rResponse) throws PortletException, IOException, UnavailableException
 {
 rResponse.setContentType("text/html");
 PortletRequestDispatcher prd = getPortletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/content/Retail/1Marketing.html");
 prd.include(rRequest, rResponse);
 }

}

Thanks.

When I run it and try to access the portlet, I get:

The requested resource (/retailmarketing/content/Retail/1Marketing.html) is not available

[peterj]

I do not think you can do what you want. See the discussion at http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=120865

[theute]

Few hints:
You can always use the CMS ContentGetCommand to retrieve the HTML.
You can also create a URLCommandMapper that does it.

[sjewett]

Thomas,

Few hints:
You can always use the CMS ContentGetCommand to retrieve the HTML.
You can also create a URLCommandMapper that does it.

Thank you. I'll try these. (I also found I could achieve my goal in the Admin Tool (I abandoned my portlet class) by creating a page and then going into Layout and adding CMS content in a new window.)

But getting back to your suggestions: Forgive my ignorance, but is there documentation on objects and methods such as the ones you suggest above? Where do I go to read about these (and others)?

Thanks for your help!

-Steve