websphere-portal

Lightweight portal server for WebSphere Portal development?

I'm doing some portlet development for IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1. However, the deployment process is painfully slow. As this is my first time doing portlet development, I'm not too familiar with the various portal servers out there. I'd like some recommendations for a lightweight portal server on which I can deploy quickly for developm...

Websphere Portlet migration, missing parameter in DispatchAction

I'm migrating an old portlet application from WPS5 to WPS6. The application is using IBM legacy container. According to the migration guide, I only renew some portal library and some tag reference. The application is still using IBM legacy container and the modified Struts Portlet. When I create a link like by: <html:link page="/page1....

ClassCastException when casting to the same class.

Hi, I have 2 different java projects, one has 2 classes dynamicbeans.DynamicBean2 dynamic.Validator On the other project, I load both of these classes dynamically and store them on an Object class Form { Class beanClass; Class validatorClass; Validator validator; } I then go ahead and create a Validator object using v...

Websphere Portal-Theme static files to webserver

Hi All, I've set fileServingEnabled="false" in ibm-web-ext.xmi file, so that the static files will be served from webserver. After doing so I'm not able to load the colorPalette.properties file. I'm getting an exception at the following line <c-rt:import url="colors/${requestScope.colorPalette}.properties" var="colorPropertiesStr" scope...

public render parameter not working with CSA Theme in Websphere 6.1

I am trying to use Public Render Parameter to inter portlet communication. I have PorteltA and PortletB on Submit of PortletA ( processAction) sets render parameter "city" which is defined in portlet.xml. PortletB gets "city" parameter in doView() and display on view jsp. Its working fine with Defautl Theme "Portal". When I changed t...

ResourceResponse.setCharacterEncoding() not working

I need to return some special Latin letter (e.g. á) in the response of a portlet serveResource() method. I have tried the following ways: response.setCharacterEncoding("ISO-8859-1") ; PrintWriter out = resWrapper.getWriter(); out.println("á"); out.close(); OR response.setContentType("text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1"); PrintWriter out...

Liferay Portal : How different from Websphere Portal

Hi Guys, I have worked with Websphere Portal 6.0,6.1 and developed portal applications usign JSR 168,JSR 286 Portlets. Now I am moving to project where I will be working with Liferay portal server and JSR 168,JSR 286. I know that as per programming interface (JSRs) It will be the same. But want to know what are the major difference at...

WebSphere Portal portlet crazy threading

Hello, We are dealing with an issue in our WebSphere Portal solution. It's a stand-alone application server, running WebSphere Portal on top of WebSphere 6.0 and all the stack is installed by another IBM product: WCL - Workplace Collaborative Learning (an e-learning plataform). It's a Windows Server 2003 install, btw. The issue is that...

Error when deploying WAR to WebSphere Portal environment

Hi I'm trying to deploy an out-of-the-box portlet to my WebSphere Portal 6.0 environment. I have made minor HTML changes one of the JSPs and any subsequent deployment results in the following errors: EJPAQ1316E: Could not process the selected file from the browse button as a WAR file. Make sure it is a WAR file and try again. com.ibm...

Require users to complete profile following successful authentication.

I'm developing a standalone custom registry, custom login portlet, and custom profile portlet for Websphere Portal 6.1. Some existing users have not completed one or more required fields in their profiles. The next time these users log in successfully, how can I get the portal to redirect them to the custom profile portlet before giv...

Quick and easy client for testing WSRP?

I am writing a JSR-168 Portlet to be exposed as a service via WSRP on the WebSphere Portal Server... is there a good tool I could use to test the WSRP service on my desktop? I'm looking for something that would be considerably less hassle than installing Sharepoint and getting its WSRP module to work. ...

WebSphere Portal CoreQueries / PortalLog Warnings

Does anyone know what the "CoreQueries" or "PortalLog" references in a WebSphere Portal systemout.log file? The following are Warnings that are being thrown up and seem to me to be coming from the base installation of the portal itself, rather than the content it refers to. [DATE] 00000101 CoreQueries W Retrieval of obects from reposit...

Memory Leak in WebSphere Portal Relating to Portal URIs

I've got an application leaking out java heap at a decent rate (400 users leaves 25% free after 2hours...after logoff all memory is restored) and we've identified the items causing the memory leak as Strings placed in session that appear to be generated by Portal itself. The values are the encoded Portal URIs (very long endcoded strings...

How can IBM JWL (Extended HTML JSF Tags by IBM) AJAX examples get to work on WPS 6.1?

If I try to implement this simple-as-possible example: Update Content with AJAXRefreshRequest it does not work with Websphere Portal 6.1.0.3 on Application Server 6.1.0.27. The content is updated only the first time. In every further request the Bean is not updated from the inputText. ...

xhrPost getting 404 in IE, working fine in FF

EDIT: I'm wondering if it could have to do with the fact that the url I'm trying to connect to has a # in it. I saw some other posts in my google search for this issue, and some people had a problem with that, but I think that was in jQuery. Here's an example url: /wps/myportal/!ut/p/c5/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3jLwABLU1dTEwMLQyMz...

Portlet Page Navigation with Parameters - Sping MVC, WebSphere Portal, & JSR 286

Here is the scenerio: We have an application running on Webphere Portal Server 6.1 and Spring MVC. There is a page with a single portlet that shows a grid full of records. Once one of those records is clicked, it must navigate to another portlet that resides on a different page - possibly even a different portlet application on the same ...

Caching for a Custom Repositiory Adapter for WebSphere Portal Virtual Member Manager

I'm looking at writing a custom repository adapter to interact with Virtual Member Manager on WebSphere Portal 6.1. Basically, its a layer that takes a request in the form of a commonj.sco.DataObject and passes that on to an external web service, to get various information on our logged in users that is not otherwise available in LDAP. ...

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...

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...

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. ...