Article: Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 1 of 3)

Posted by Ryan Slobojan on Aug 11, 2008

Sections

Development,

Operations & Infrastructure

Topics

Java ,

Portal/CMS

Tags

JBoss Portal ,

JBoss Portlet Container ,

JBoss Portlet Bridge ,

JSF ,

JSR 301

This article, the first in a three-part series by Wesley Hales, lays the framework for the rest of the series. It covers setting up a new project using JBoss Portlet Container and JBoss Portlet Bridge, configuring a JSF application to use JBoss Portlet Bridge, and the capabilities that JBoss Portlet Bridge provides to a JSF application.

From the article:

Portals have gained a lot of ground over the past few years, both in the enterprise and with the new enhancements of the portlet 2.0 (JSR 286) specification. The new 2.0 portlets allow you many freedoms in aggregating different applications and presenting them in different windows on one page. And of course, you get authentication, sophisticated personalization features, and better ways of handling AJAX out of the box.

With the JSR 301 portlet bridge specification, we now have a standard way of running JSF applications as both 1.0 and 2.0 portlets. The portlet bridge handles the portal Action/Render paradigm to properly handle the JSF lifecycle. While this tutorial is mainly to show you how easy it is to configure and develop a JSF portlet, I will also be revealing the new JBoss Portlet Container 2.0 and some of it’s cool new features.

Read the full article here.

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   Fatal Error

   by Venkat Kodali

   Hi Wesley,
   
   Nice article, I am getting this error while build. Appreciate your help thanks
   

   
   [INFO] [cargo:start]
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [ERROR] FATAL ERROR
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] Error while expanding C:\test\jboss\DashboardPortal\DashboardPortal\targe
   t\installs\jboss-portletcontainer-2.0.0-jbossas42.tar.gz
   Unexpected end of ZLIB input stream
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] Trace
   in cargo code: Error while expanding C:\test\jboss\DashboardPortal\DashboardPort
   al\target\installs\jboss-portletcontainer-2.0.0-jbossas42.tar.gz
   
   

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   Re: Fatal Error

   by Wesley Hales

   Looks like your download probably died early (reset) or it was corrupt for some reason. Just run 'mvn clean' and go through the process again.

   Reply

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   Getting Build Errors

   by J Crisp

   I am trying to work through the article but getting an error:
   
   C:\>mvn install cargo:start -Premote-portal -Dpc20
   [INFO] Scanning for projects...
   [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'cargo'.
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-cargo-plugin' does not exist o
   r no valid version could be found
   
   I setup Maven as instructed above. Am I missing something else?

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   Re: Getting Build Errors

   by mei xuesong

   Yes, I have the same problem.

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   Re: Fatal Error

   by Roel Slieker

   For some reason the automated downloading gets abrupted, and it's not due to bad network.
   Just download the files downloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/jboss-portletco... and
   downloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/jboss-portal-2.... manually and put in ./target/installs
   Run "mvn install cargo:start -Premote-portal -Dpc20" again and it will work.

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   Re: Getting Build Errors

   by Wesley Hales

   Make sure you are in the archetype directory that has been created.

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