Define a portal without a war file?

[bacteries]

Hello,
I'm new to Jboss Portal (and Jboss) and I have maybe a stupid question...

I would like to define a portal (with -object.xml, -instance.xml, portlet.xml, ... files). OK I undertsand now how this work.

But to hava my portal in Jboss Portal how do I do?
Do I need a war file? (using with hot deploy) or can I create a folder where I put my files and have my portal (even if it's not hot deploy?).

I saw that there is data in folder, like : jboss-portal.sar\samples\portal-weather-samples.war so how can I do a similar portal?

Thanks.

[bacteries]

Juste some additional information : I'm using Jboss Portal 2.6

[peterj]

Package your portlet into a war. The descriptor file (*.xml) all go in WEB-INF, the portlet class you can put into WEB-INF/classes or package as a jar and put in WEB-INF/lib. If you have html, jsp, images, etc they go wherever you would put them into a typical war.

[kavic]

hello..
as far as i understand ur problem... there are 2 ways to make ur own portal
1. by packaging all ur .xml,jsp and .class files into war file and then deploy it by just copy the same into jboss-portal-2.6.2.GA\server\default\deploy\ folder. ur portal will reflect in the jboss portal.
2. in the jboss portal go to the admin link.this link comes after u log in by admin as username and password. go to home tab and then to portal objects... here u can create portal under the manage sub portals.


hope this will help.