Hey folks. I have the Liferay Portal plugin ready to make available so others can start looking at it and provide feedback. It actually consists of two separate plugins --- the Liferay WAR and a Derby RAR.
I created the Liferay WAR by exporting it from the Geronimo version of Liferay offered at liferay.com. Then I made some adjustments to it so it could deploy into Geronimo 1.1 and so it could work with Derby. Jeff, IIUC you're already working with the Liferay devs on an EJB version so maybe I can synch up with you instead of contributing patches to Liferay separately? The Derby RAR contains the usual connector deployment artifacts (tranql and geronimo-ra.xml) and a prepopulated database that gets copied into var/derby when the RAR is deployed (thanks BTW Matt for the excellent tip on how to make this work!) This plugin will be automatically installed by the plugin's dependency system when you install the Liferay plugin if there's not already a datasource named "liferay-datasource" deployed in Geronimo. This allows Geronimo users to install a fully functional portal server running on Derby all in one shot, or to manually prepare an enterprise database before installing the Liferay plugin if they prefer. Brian, thanks for all your support in this effort so far! With your permission I would like to make the plugin available from a Geronimo plugin repository (perhaps geronimoplugins.com) so the Geronimo community can start taking a look at it. thanks, Paul On 6/22/06, Brian Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everyone, It's great to see the traction going on in the Geronimo world. Just signed up for the dev list so I'm happy to participate. In our next release of Liferay 4.1.0, we'll: 1.) Upgrade to the latest Geronimo 1.1 (even if it's just a pre zip until 1.1 gets voted final). 2.) Use Derby instead of HSQL. (Thanks to Paul!) Liferay, by default (because our users are now used to it), deploys itself to / That isn't mandatory though. So for our plugin, we just have to make it map to something like /portal or /liferay instead. It requires one xml change and one property change. I'm also working with Jeff Genender to also get the EJB version out soon too. Thanks all. -- Brian Chan Chief Executive Officer Liferay, LLC Enterprise. Open Source. For Life.
