Sample Portal Extension in EPP 5.1 not overriding anything

[rraposa]

If I copy the gatein-sample-extension.ear into my /deploy folder and start up EPP, I can see in the log file that it is deploying successfully. Also, when I go the initial home page, I see the following in the log:

14:26:40,829 INFO  [STDOUT] Creating a new session of the 'sample-ext'

14:26:40,832 INFO  [portal:PortalSessionListener] portal' portal

So it's creating a new session for sample-ext, which makes me think it deployed correctly. However, none of the customizations in gatein-sample-extension.ear appear on any of the pages. For example, the sample extension has a different home page, and I changed the login.jsp page as well, but only the original /classic portal pages are showing up.

Am I doing something wrong? Am I supposed to use a different URL (which would seem to contradict the concept of an extension if the URL changes)?

Thanks for your help!

Rich

[vstorm83]

Did you copy the starter.ear from starter/ear/target/ to the deploy directory of jboss ?

[rraposa]

Good point - the starter.ear file was already in my deploy directory so I didn't have to do that.

[vstorm83]

Ok, There is a warning in the README.txt file of sample extension project :

WARNING: This can only work if a Unified ClassLoader has been configured on your JBoss (default behavior) and

the load order is first the exoplatform.ear then the sample-ext.ear and finally the starter.ear

I think maybe you should remove and hot redeploy the starter project after deploy the sample-ext (make sure starter is the last one loaded)

[rraposa]

Vu  - thanks for the tip! I'm not sure what I did, but now it is working. One thing I changed was to add "starter" to the list of dependencies - giving it the least priority:

<field name="dependencies">

                            <collection type="java.util.ArrayList">

                                <value>

                                    <string>starter</string>

                                </value>

                                <value>

                                    <string>eXoResources</string>

                                </value>

                                <value>

                                    <string>sample-ext</string>

                                </value>

                            </collection>

</field>

But I don't know if this was necessary. Anyway, thanks for your help!

Rich