Thanks for your quick response,

I have to stick with JBoss Portal, so can't work on GateIn.

The documentation available online from JBoss is very specific to creating new apps, I need information on how I can embed existing apps as portlet.

what steps would be involved?

what descriptor files I'll need to add/change?

Regards,

Adnan

Hi Prabhat,

I was able to spend more time on JBoss Portal/Portlets, I got your point on WSRP (I am assuming you referring to remote Portlets and not Applications).

I was able to write a portlet that do the iframe of all apps, but now I know I do have to work on Bridge for sure.

As I said earlier, online documentation isn't helping me much, would you or anybody can help me on this? where to look for more detailed documentation?

Regards,

Adnan

Thanks Prabhat,

I still don't understand how to configure my project for using bridge and make this available on portlet server.

If I build application with bridge, will this app be available as web app / portlet app bot

Adnan

Hi Prabhat,

Finally I was able to configure/use the Bridge, however I am unable to see any page on my portlet.

Portlet Definition/Instance is there in the Admin, but when I add it's instance to a page, I can see the portlet window but seeing null instead of seeing my page.

Another thing I noticed is, as soon as I deploy my ear file, I get few errors on console.

19:12:18,643 INFO  [TomcatDeployer] undeploy, ctxPath=/JSPProject, warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp19434JSPProject-exp.war/

19:12:18,756 ERROR [STDERR] Aug 25, 2010 7:12:18 PM javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet destroy

INFO: Destroy GenericFacesPortlet for portlet JSPPortlet

19:12:18,975 INFO  [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/JSPProject, warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp19435JSPProject-exp.war/

19:12:19,243 INFO  [PortletViewHandler] No Facelets library is present

19:12:19,488 ERROR [STDERR] Aug 25, 2010 7:12:19 PM javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet init

INFO: Init GenericFacesPortlet for portlet JSPPortlet

19:12:19,500 ERROR [STDERR] Aug 25, 2010 7:12:19 PM javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet calculateBridgeClassName

INFO: Bridge class name is org.jboss.portletbridge.AjaxPortletBridge

19:12:19,529 ERROR [STDERR] Aug 25, 2010 7:12:19 PM javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet init

INFO: The bridge does not support doHeaders method

here is my portlet.xml file, would really appreciate if you can help me out here.

Regards,

Adnan

Thanks Prabhat for quick reply,

here is the error am getting on server,

19:12:18,643 INFO  [TomcatDeployer] undeploy, ctxPath=/JSPProject, warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp19434JSPProject-exp.war/

19:12:18,756 ERROR [STDERR] Aug 25, 2010 7:12:18 PM javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet destroy

INFO: Destroy GenericFacesPortlet for portlet JSPPortlet

19:12:18,975 INFO  [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/JSPProject, warUrl=.../tmp/deploy/tmp19435JSPProject-exp.war/

19:12:19,243 INFO  [PortletViewHandler] No Facelets library is present

19:12:19,488 ERROR[STDERR] Aug 25, 2010 7:12:19 PM javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet init

INFO: Init GenericFacesPortlet for portlet JSPPortlet

19:12:19,500 ERROR [STDERR] Aug 25, 2010 7:12:19 PM javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet calculateBridgeClassName

INFO: Bridge class name is org.jboss.portletbridge.AjaxPortletBridge

19:12:19,529 ERROR [STDERR] Aug 25, 2010 7:12:19 PM javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet init

INFO: The bridge does not support doHeaders method

I think the descriptor files are similar, I can see the portlet definition/instance in Admin.

Here are my conf files.

faces-config.xml

default-objects.xml

<deployments>

<deployment>

<parent-ref>default.default</parent-ref>

<if-exists>overwrite</if-exists>

<window>

<window-name>JSPPortletWindow</window-name>

<instance-ref>JSPPortletInstance</instance-ref>

<region>center</region>

<height>5</height>

<initial-window-state>maximized</initial-window-state>

</window>

</deployment>

</deployments>

web.xml

<context-param>

<param-name>javax.portlet.faces.RENDER_POLICY</param-name>

<param-value>NEVER_DELEGATE</param-value>

</context-param>

  <servlet>

    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>

    <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>

    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>

    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>

    <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>

  </servlet-mapping>

portlet.xml

<portlet>

<portlet-name>JSPPortlet</portlet-name>

<portlet-class>javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet</portlet-class>

<description>Sample JSP Portlet</description>

<portlet-info>

<title>JSP Portlet Title</title>

<short-title>JSP Portlet</short-title>

</portlet-info>

<init-param>

<name>view-jsp</name>

<value>/welcome.jsp</value>

</init-param>

<init-param>

<name>edit-jsp</name>

<value>/home.jsp</value>

</init-param>

<init-param>

<name>help-jsp</name>

<value>/help.jsp</value>

</init-param>

<init-param>

<name>javax.portlet.faces.preserveActionParams</name>

<value>true</value>

</init-param>

<expiration-cache>0</expiration-cache>

<supports>

<mime-type>text/html</mime-type>

<portlet-mode>VIEW</portlet-mode>

<portlet-mode>EDIT</portlet-mode>

<portlet-mode>HELP</portlet-mode>

</supports>

</portlet>

Regards,

Adnan

Hi Prabhat,

I was able to resolve the issue with my simple JSP based portlets, here are my findings,

For JSP based apps to run as portlets,

     -     we don't need JSP JBoss Portlet Bridge

     -     we need to write kind of Controller Classes extending GenericPortlet. (A portlet class)

     -     Same configurations in portlet/instance/objects as other normal portlets.

Now I'll work on JSF/Struts based apps.

Regards,

Adnan

Hi Prabhat,

I want to share/confirm my understanding with Portlet technology,

Say if I have an application build on JSP/Servlet and I have a feature of basic CRUD operation,

My initial assumption was, I'll somehow wrap around these jsps and can use the same jsp for my portlet, but now I think I can't do this.

another assumption I had was, based on above, I would be able to access same app as a web app and at the same time this very same app will be available as portlet as well. but now I think this is not the case.

Is it same for JSF as well? is my understanding correct?

Really appreciate your help !!!

Regards,

Adnan