On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Paul McMahan wrote:
This jetspeed integration is coming along nicely! Very promising
work.
Instead of introducing a MBE that automatically configures the
webapp for jetspeed based on the presence of WEB-INF/portlet.xml
can we look into allowing jetspeed to handle its own deployment via
placement in its hot deploy directory? When a war is placed in
that directory jetspeed processes the portlets internally and then
handles deploying the war to the app server. i.e. the portal
recognizes the WAR as a special kind of app and handles the extra
deployment steps, not the application server.
I think that what Prasad is doing is a better way :-) (which is why I
suggested it). How would a portlet app plugin work with hot deploy?
imho magic hot deploy directories are really out of line with the
whole geronimo modularity philosophy and I would support removing the
hot deploy functionality we have (well, I know that wont happen, but
I'd still support it).
I was hoping that the pluto portlet app deployment would work in the
same way with an MBE.
I have a hunch that trying reverse that paradigm or somehow wrapper
the deployment responsibilities of jetspeed from within an MBE
could prove to be confusing to jetspeed users, difficult to
implement correctly, and very sensitive to the jetspeed version.
And like Donald pointed out it would interfere with other portal
apps that might be deployed in Geronimo like Liferay, uPortal,
Pluto (the admin console), etc.
I think we should look into selecting the portal to deploy to based
on something in the geronimo plan if we really need to support
multiple portals running at once. If we don't, building a portlet
app into a plugin for a specific portal could be handled by
specifying the desired portal MBE car in the plugin's pom.
thanks
david jencks
Best wishes,
Paul
On Oct 26, 2007, at 7:37 AM, Donald Woods wrote:
Can this plugin coexist with the Pluto Admin portal in 2.1?
Now that the Jetspeed plugin has a
JetspeedModuleBuilderExtension.java which handles any webmodule
with "WEB-INF/portlet.xml" as its own, how can we deploy Admin
portlets to Pluto vs. user portlets to Jetspeed?
Or is this meant only as a complete replacement of Pluto for users
who want a full featured Portal?
-Donald
