Need Help: Portlet Development

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MasterGaurav - 23 Feb 2005 03:43 GMT

Hi,

We are recently forayed into Portlet development.

I would like to know what are good IDEs available for Portlet
development (of course, JSR 168 compliant).

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Cheers,
Gaurav Vaish
http://www.mastergaurav.org
http://mastergaurav.blogspot.com
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Rogue - 23 Feb 2005 18:30 GMT

Hi Gaurav,

have you tried using Jdeveloper? It comes with a rather neat GUI for
building your pages too.

thanks,
Harsha

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MasterGaurav - 24 Feb 2005 06:30 GMT

Hi Harsha,

Thanks for your mail. Just wondering with what applications (like
Ant, Portal Servers) is JDeveloper Integrated.

For example, if I want to create a portlet to be deployed in
WebSphere PS, will it give me the correct template (for portlet.xml)?
Or is it only for JSR-168 compatible portlets?

I know I'm asking for too much (probably), but that's the
requirement -- flexibility and choice of PS may lie with clients.

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Cheers,
Gaurav Vaish
http://www.mastergaurav.org
http://mastergaurav.blogspot.com
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Rogue - 24 Feb 2005 18:41 GMT

Hi Gaurav,
as far as i know, Jdev supports deployment to OracleAS (OC4J), JBoss,
Weblogic Server, Tomcat. Considering that you are deploying a JSR 168
compliant portlet, it shouldnt matter which app server you deploy it
too, unless ofcourse you are utilizing app-server specific
functionality.

HTH,
thanks,
Harsha

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MasterGaurav - 25 Feb 2005 05:09 GMT

No. It does matter which portal server I deploy to.. even if I make JSR
168 compliant portlet.

The issue is not with the portlet but with the portlet configuration
file: portlet.xml.

Don't know about OC4J and WebLogic, but with WebSphere portal server,
one definitely needs to create a portlet.xml specific to it.

Or do I rest-in-peace with consideration that "The application does not
support WebSphere"? Also.. IBM has its own IBM Portlet API. Lol. :D

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Cheers,
Gaurav Vaish
http://www.mastergaurav.org
http://mastergaurav.blogspot.com
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Rogue - 25 Feb 2005 20:21 GMT

hmm.... well, i guess this portlet.xml file is something that just
simply identifies the various portlets available and all, i dont think
it should be a big deal to fill in the details. But if you intend on
deploying your provider onto Websphere, then may be you can check thier
development tools.

till later,
Rogue

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MasterGaurav - 26 Feb 2005 17:11 GMT

Thanks for the info.

btw, any ideas about the Sun Studio?

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Cheers,
Gaurav Vaish
http://www.mastergaurav.org
http://mastergaurav.blogspot.com
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