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Spring MVC for portlets, request lifecycle

Hi All, does anybody know where to get documentation about Spring request lifecycle for portlet App (Spring's annotation based controller? I need to know the order of calling methods by Spring and parameters (request, model, ...) available on each stage of request handling. Main question is: when @ModelAttribute methods are called (I ...

Can I add a java portlet to an existing java Web App?

Hi. I'm building a webapp that uses jboss-seam with jsf, facelets and rich faces, running on top of jboss AS 5.1. I would like to add a portlet area where I could add my own portlets, but from what I got (reading forums and documentation) I need to be running a portlet container/portal (something like liferay or gatein). But I don't w...

Spring 3 JSR-286 (portlets) docs

I know that Spring 3 supports JSR-286 (portlets version '2.0'). However I can't find a lot of documentation on that. Can anyone share some links about this? Thank you. ...

WSRP Portlets in Oracle WebCenter: transforming task flows(ADF) in portlets

I am doing some research on the portlets offered by WebCenter, but I have some problems related with transferring parameters between them. My idea was to create 2 portlets: a department portlet where I can chose a departmentId which is sent as a parameter to the second portlet, employees, so I will have a table with the corresponding emp...

Coding solution to WAR installation error (Websphere Portal 6.0) ?

I have a Websphere Portal application containing several portlets for which I'm currently working on some changes. A week ago, the WAR file produced by Rational Application Developer could be installed on the Portal server with no problems. Yesterday I made some seemingly minor changes to two JSP files and their associated "pagecode" J...

Liferay: Customise the web.xml HeaderFilter added during portlet deloyment

I need to customise the deployment of my liferay portlet such that the GWT nocache.js files don't get a 'Expires' HTTP header set. My war file looks like this: view.jsp com.foobar.MyEntryPoint/com.foobar.MyEntryPoint.nocache.js com.foobar.MyEntryPoint/12312312313213123123123.cache.html WEB-INF/web.xml WEB-INF/portlet.xml WEB-INF/lifer...

How to change portlet mode outside processAction (jsr168)?

I'm writing mail client portlet. I would like to show portlet in edit mode for new user and don't allow change this mode while user filling html form. ...

portlet-mvc 3.0 + maven for websphere portlet: examples?

I'm trying to develop a websphere portal portlet using java, maven and spring-portlet-mvc 3.0.2.RELEASE but so far I'm not having a lot of luck. The problem that I'm having is that a lot of the tutorials are either outdated, incorrect, contradict eachother or a combination of all the above. Also I have to use RAD but the tutorials also c...

Why is the servlet request not available in the portlet API

The portlet API deos not provide any reference to the enclosing servlet request and response objects. I know it is not the preferred model of interaction with the user, but it seems draconian to remove all access. I understand that for portlet driven interaction with the user, you want to use portlet URLs, and let the portlet container...

Avoid portlet refresh on page refresh. expiration-cache exception expiration-cache portet

Hello Experts, I am facing this issue with expiration-cache in my portlet (jsr 286 - Spring MVC). The configuration in my portlet.xml is 300 My portlet is also a Producer portlet in a Inter portlet communication scenario. I am trying to use expiration-cache in order to stop this portlet rendering when there is change on some other portle...

how to trigger a portlet refresh when the database data changes.

As mentioned in my other question I'm creating a simple calendar portlet using spring-portlet-mvc. Now I allow multiple users to use the same calendar. However the problem I'm facing is how to force all the instances to refresh when someone updates their calendar (so also those of different users). ...

Problem deploying portlets on JBoss Portal 2.7.2: Not a canonical value

I just downloaded the JBoss Portal Server 2.7.2 (JBoss Portal + JBoss AS 4.2.3 bundle to be precise) and tried deploying portlets just as the SimpleHelloWorld provided in the samples. The portlet gets deployed fine but when I put it on a page I get the following exception. I tried adding other Portlets as well (such as the booking MVC po...

What standards and best practices should I follow to write interoperable portlets or web gadgets?

I am trying to design the standards and patterns for implementing portlets/web gadgets with the main goal of maximizing interoperability if those components were hosted in a Java app server framework or within an existing ASP.NET technology (SharePoint webparts), or a client side-only framework. Is there any guidance anywhere of the par...

What portal framework and container to choose?

Hey Guys, The question what portal framework + container should I choose? The possible combinations: Liferay && (Glassfish 2 and 3 || JBoss+Tomcat 4.2 || JBoss+Tomcat 5.0 || Jetty || JOnAS+Jetty || JOnAS+Tomcat || Resin || Tomcat 5.5 || Tomcat 6.0) Pluto && Tomcat Gridsphere && Tomcat I'm unexperienced with portal developmen...

Importing Liferay portlet into Eclipse IDE

Hi I haved created a portlet through plugins SDK and wanted to import that into the eclipse ,but it did not imported as it is , But after creating the portlet if i give " ant setup-eclipse " then the project get imported into the eclipse .i have searched for this almost 2 days then i found the solution .. How do i know what all the co...

Maximize a JSR168/Spring portlet when it changes to Edit mode

Related/similar question: 2795890 Our team is working on a portlet that has a rather comprehensive configuration view. Currently we are using the maximized view of the portlet to display the configuration page -- but really we should be taking advantage of the Edit view and put the configuration there. The problem is that when our porta...

Where do i change/modify the roles for the users in order to access the portlets manually ? not in the configuration of the portlet .

Where do i change/modify the roles for the users in order to access the portlets manually ? not in the configuration of the portlet of Liferay.from the homepage of the liferay server ...

How to start a new session if a user click on the new tab in IE or mozilla on websphere portal?

I have one "user search" portlet on the home page of one application running on websphere portal server which displays the matching user records as per the search criteria filled in the search form. I have a requirement to have a "back to search input" link on the results page which on click should show the filled form on the input jsp. ...

how to display error message occurred in handleAction() for spring MVC portlet:

I'm sure this question is more related to spring MVC itself, not to the portlet part of spring MVC. I'm new to both of them. I'm developing a portlet based on spring MVC portlet. I need to show a list of links and, when the user clicks on any of them, I get its ID in the controller and do some processing. There's the possibility that th...

A lightweight alternative to portal container like Liferay

Has somebody found a lightweight alternative to portal containers like liferay? One that pushes features like quick startup times, not limiting the developer, and flexible configuration? ...