Seam based portlets (design question)

[viniciuscarvalho.viniciusccarvalho.gmail.com]

Hello there! We are building our portal project (using jboss portal of course ;) ) and a bunch of custom portlets. So far I've decided to use JSF and EJB3 for the portlets, but then inspiration hit me and I've asked my self: why not seam.
So we are very excited about using seam, but I have a few questions yet to be answered before we dive into it:

We need each portlet to be an almost self contained app (almost, because we are going to rely on some base infra-structure classes we are going to have for all portlets). So the first idea was to have one EAR for each portlet, but that seemed too much overkill (I'm imagining my app server with 25 ears...) So we thought about wrapping them inside one single ear. This way I should have something like this:

my-portlets.ear
portlet1-ejb.jar
portlet1.war
portlet2-ejb.jar
portlet2.war
... and so on...

My question is: since components.xml is located inside WEB-INF (or am I just plain wrong here), should I have one components.xml for each web app? What if I need a common component for all the war files? Is this possible?

Any suggestion on the best design would be much appreciated.

Best regards

[pmuir]

I suggest you ask on the portlet bridge forum.

[viniciuscarvalho.viniciusccarvalho.gmail.com]

Thanks Pete, follow your instructions and posted there. Well, when I packaged the various web applications inside my ear, I get this Warning from seam: org.jboss.seam.jsf.SeamPhaseListener There should only be one Seam phase listener per application

Is it ok to live with that? I have several components.xml on my wars modules.

Also, how could I have a global component definition? I mean, I would like to have a components.xml with a few components defined that all other modules could use, is it possible?

Regards

[troy.sellers]

Hi All,

I too am interested in how to go about this? I have similar requirements, would like a number of portlets to share a common state (in my case, an Order, each portlet being a different view of the Order).
Is it possible to share the conversation context between portlets?

Cheers,
Troy