PortletBridge & Richfaces Portlet - Tomcat Integration/Deployment Issue

[crajkumarbe]

Question:

I have been experimenting the Richfaces portlet in the Gatein 3.1 JBoss AS using PortletBridge 2.0 and it was working well as expected. Is it possible to deploy the Richfaces portlet using the JBoss PortletBridge 2.0 in tomcat?

Issue: I wanted the deploy the Richfaces portlet in the Gatein 3.1 Tomcat server and make it work.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it work.. My tomcat server was able to start properly without any runtime servers.. But, during the portlet render phase I'm getting the following error...

Gatein.log file

Aug 20, 2010 6:32:50 PM org.jboss.portletbridge.BridgeStrategy createStrategyInstance INFO: Bridge Strategy was not activated due to org/jboss/seam/Seam

From the above exception, I understand that Seam Framework API's are missing. I wanted to identify the required JAR's and add it in the portlet WAR library directory.. Could anyone please help me on this with answer?

Versions:

1. GateIn-3.1.0-GA - Tomcat 6.1

2. PortletBridge 2.0

3. Richfaces 3.3

I have attached my sample "tictactoe-portlet.war" with this discussion topic. Please try deploying in the Tomcat Gatein bundle and share the answer..

Thanks

[stefan_tausendpfund]

Hi,

your sample renders in my Gatin with tomcat. The bridge tries to create different strategies: PlanJSF, richfaces, facelets and seam. The info message in the log tells you that the seam strategie could not be created as your web app is no seam project.

To answer your questions:it is possible to deploy a richfaces portlet using portletbridge in tomcat with gatein.

regards

  Stefan

[crajkumarbe]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your response.

I have missed to mention that I was able to render the portlet page without seam framework API's.

My problem is, since Seam API's are not loaded, I wasn't able to use the Richfacaes API to design the UI layer.

And I was not able to play the TicTac game since the seam API is not loaded..

Could you please help me in finding the Seam dependency API JAR files to make this tictac portlet work?

Awaiting for your response..

Thanks,
Rajkumar

[prabhat.jha]

Are you using the tictactoe portlet that I blogged about at : http://sensiblerationalization.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-you-can-tictactoe-in-gatein-portal.html ? If so, then it should work without any problem. Please let me know and I will verify accordingly.

[crajkumarbe]

Hi Prabhat,

Yes, I have downloaded the sample app from your blog and trying to experiment with Tomcat..

Could you please help me in finding the Seam dependency API's JAR file to make this portlet work in Tomcat Gatein Bundle..

Awaiting for your response...

Thanks,

Rajkumar

[crajkumarbe]

Hi,

I have added the below JAR's in the tomcat server lib directory and the app started working for me.

- jsf-impl.jar

- jsf-api.jar

Thanks,

Rajkumar

[crajkumarbe]

Added the jsf-impl.jar and jsf-api.jar to run the Richfaces portlet inside the tomcat server library directory

[prabhat.jha]

I am glad you figured it out  but I was assuming that you had this step already taken care of.

Any JSF or Richfaces application in portal or non portal environment would require to have jsf jars bundled in your .war or be accessible to your .war from your server classpath. All examples mentioned in blog are tested with JBoss which already contains jsf jars and that's not the case with tomcat.

[melhamlaoui]

Hi,

Im a new to Gatein, can i have the tictactoe project without the implementation of the portlet?

Thanks alot

Mahmoud