I am just beginning to ramp up on development with JetSpeed and was wondering if someone could describe their preferred method of developing in this environment?
The cycle seems to be code->compile->create par->deploy->test which seems a bit cumbersome. Is it possible to short circuit this process in a meaningful way... i.e. code->compile->test by directly writing class files to the appropriate directories? This seems to work, but only with a manual restart of the webapp. Any suggestions on how to simplify this? Making sense of what gets deployed where is also a bit of a concern. Is it possible to simple deploy a par file with the portlet.xml and have the actual portlet implementation classes deployed in the WEB-INF/classes directory? This would simplify the deployment of multiple portlets which all access a common object model. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, David Allen
