Which is the best way to create portal in GateIn 3.5 using JBoss AS7

[anishantony]

Hi all

I need to develop  a portal in GateIn, but I dont know which is the best way to create portal in GateIn. previously I developed a portal in GateIn 3.2 by modifying the gatein.ear folder, but the problem happens is that when I am going to upgrade my GateIn from one version to another version I need to change a lot of file manually, so i dont think this is the right method. I know there is several ways are there better than my implementation. But I need to know which one is the best way

regards

Anish Antony

[rutlucas]

Hello Anish,

I think that multiple options can be used in your scenario.

If you are going to create a close portal, may be you would like to start from the examples portal (classic) and modify it.

Another option is to use an extension, for example, the mobile part is created as an extension, this give you an idea about how to create your custom portal and deploy it as a single .ear.

Also you can take a look into the code:

$GATEIN_HOME/gatein/extensions/gatein-mobile-integration.ear

A good start point about extensions is to take a look into the quickstarts, there is one covering extensions topics:

https://github.com/gatein/gatein-portal-quickstart/tree/master/gatein-portal-extension

Hope this helps to give you some ideas about personalization of your portal platform.

I think that it will depends of your whole scenario, if you are creating a portal where third party teams can write portlets and applications, or if you are creating a single application that uses a portal embedded.

Regards,

Lucas

[plamarque]

Hi Anish,

As Lucas said, use extensions. Read this : https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/GTNPORTAL35/Portal+Extension