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Deploy a WebSphere Portal 6 portlet to WebSphere Portal 5

I am using Eclipse 3.2.2 with WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer 6.0.2. I have a portlet that was developed for Portal 6 which works fine, I can build the portlet War and deploy to a Portal 6 server fine. However, we only have production servers running Portal 5. So how do I build a War file which is compatible with Portal 5? ...

Using Awstats for generating usage statistics for a Liferay portal

Has anyone tried to use Awstats for generating usage statistics for a Liferay portal? Can you share your experience on how to do it? Aside from Awstats and Google Analytics, are there any other alternatives for generating statistics for a Liferay portal? (I can't use Google Analystics since it's a restricted internal portal) ...

How to deploy with Ant an portlet to remote WebSphere Portal ?

How to deploy with Ant an portlet to remote WebSphere Portal 6.0 (Linux)? ...

What is the difference between Liferay 5.2 and Sun Glassfish Web Space Server 10

I'm finding Liferay 5.2 to be fairly buggy (IMO) and more specifically there are a number of security-related bugs that I find very troubling. Is Sun's version of this product (Glassfish Web Space Server) any better? ...

Obtaining client IP Address through ALUI Portal Gateway

Currently using Oracle/BEA/Plumtree ALUI Portal 6.1, and am trying to display a client's IP Address. Problem is that since this content is being gatewayed, the portal server's address is coming up when I call <%= request.getRemoteAddr() %> (<%= request.getRemoteHost() %>) I am pretty much doing the java equivalent of this link, and i...

Lotus Notes integration with a Java Portal Platform

I am using a Java based Portal Platform. I need to show within my portal information stored in Lotus Notes. Considering security issues, what are the recommended ways to do this? Are there any open source JSR 168 portlets out there that integrate with Lotus Notes? From my portal platform, I can call web services to get this informati...

designing consoles for hardware appliances

What are the best practices in designing UI for hardware appliances? Are there any frameworks in Java that are particularly suited to this task? ...

Best Practices in creating software appliances?

I have an application that a customer has asked us to package into a software appliance and wanted to find a list of all of the things that I need to consider. Stuff related to choosing the operating system is well-documented, but other aspects such as building usable web consoles, frameworks I should consider (the application is written...

Is there a library that helps publish portlets to all the different portals? eg. Google Gadgets, Vista Sidebar, JSR 168, Facebook

These days there are so many different sites and environments where you can setup a portal and pull data from all over the place. Each of course expects the data in its own format. Do you know of any libraries that make it easy to publish to all these formats so that users can pull your data no matter which they choose to use? Of course...

Secure captive portal?

We would like to run a wireless access point for public use. However, in case of misbehavior, we would like some personal information to be able to pass on to law enforcement. The proposed solution involves a captive portal where users enter their email addresses, and are then given ten minutes to check their email and verify, after whi...

Is it possible to create dynamically pluggable GWT widgets/portlets in separate war files?

Is it possible to create widgets / portlets in GWT that can be dynamically loaded and added to a GWT web application, and where the GWT widgets can reside in a separate war files? To clarify my question: JSR168/JSR286 compliant portals make it possible to create portlets in separate projects (war files) and to dynamically load these int...

How to Integrate Facebook

Hi All, How to Integrate facebook to my portal(weblogic) application. Thanks rj ...

Restrictions/disadvantages of developing portlets for Liferay

I'm considering developing an application as portlets, to be integrated in Liferay portal. Are there any significant disadvantages or restrictions in developing such an application, as opposed to developing a normal web application using Spring framework? Liferay seems to require that all content is added as portlets. Another option I p...

ASP.Net MVC for developing widget based portals

How suitable ASP.Net MVC for developing anything like http://www.google.com/ig I haven't seen or failed to find any examples yet. Does MVC approach imply that user interface is not supposed to look like that ? ...

Out of Memory error starting JBoss with Portal from Eclipse

I cannot get JBoss Portal to start from Eclipse, though the AS alone starts fine, and the Portal starts correctly as well, when started from the command line as opposed to from within Eclipse. I'm running in Windows, with 3GB. Suggestions? Thank you. ...

Usability and Configurability

At work, I have access to many appliances ranging from DataPower to Cisco to F5 and so on. Each of the user interfaces for configuration seem to have a different layout where on some the navigation is on the side while on others it is on the top. How do usability guidelines vary based on whether something is a user website vs something...

WebLogic "MDB application is NOT connected to messaging system"

We have a J2EE/portal application running on WebLogic Portal 10.2. We have recently introduced an asynchronous EJB call, but after putting it into production, we're getting an error message that says MDB application XXX is NOT connected to messaging system Is this a coding issue, something that can be tweaked with a runtime parame...

ASP.NET free (open source) ecommerce site that allows multisite branding?

I'm looking for a free/open source ecommerce product. Specifically what I need is multisite support that allows each site to be branded for the vendor. Basically, I have a brick and mortar business and I'd like to provide a service that allows people to have their own website that accesses my inventory. Sort of like CafePress.com but not...

Is there a usable standards-compliant (168/286) portlet testing framework? (especially one that works with Spring PortletMVC)

I've not seen anything in this area I would recommend to a client. If you've used Spring PortletMVC, how did you test it? It's easy to test under the level of portlet code, and relatively easy to test on the client side through HtmlUnit, Selenium and the like, but I haven't seen anything that is a "Gray Box" test in the spirit of JSFUn...

Setting up a new website with Liferay Portal - basic steps?

I know this is not specifically a programming question, but programmers will often have to do this work. How do I create a website with Liferay portal - the docs are pretty light on this fundamental issue and are all for version 4.4. I am using version 5.2 and the docs don't seem to be relevant. Do you know what the basic steps are. So...