Hopefully someone has an answer for this question, but I haven't seen it on the online mail archive.
I am trying to upgrade from Jetspeed 1.4b4 to Jetspeed 1.4 final. Under Jetspeed 1.4b4, I had many custom Velocity portlets that worked just fine, but now no longer work under the 1.4 final version. They compile fine, but when I run 1.4 final and try to look at one of my portlets, I get a ClassNotFoundException and the message is that my actions cannot be found on the module.packages path (which is the same as it was under 1.4b4).
My Velocity portlets mirror those that Jetspeed ships with exactly. My actions are under the package name com.company.modules.actions.portlets. My module.packages property has com.company.modules listed before org.apache.jetspeed.modules and org.apache.turbine.modules. My source code is rooted in the src/java directory right alongside the source code for Jetspeed. Jetspeed can see and access my Velocity templates, but not the actions. My source code gets compiled by the build.xml file in jetspeed's build directory. I don't make any modifications to the build file, but I do change the deploy.dir property in the build.properties file that build file uses. I run the deploy target when I compile. I don't get any errors or warnings when I run the build file and my custom portlets' code gets compiled and placed in the jetspeed.war's WEB-INF/classes directory which is where Jetspeed's code is also.
In Jetspeed 1.4b4, I had my psml files stored in the database, which I would like to keep if possible. But if I have to blow away the jetspeed database to get my portlets working, I can live with that for now. I have noticed that when I run Jetspeed using the psml files in my database (which was originally created in the 1.4b4 version), the layout drop down in the page's default customizer is empty. When I run it using the file-based psml that came with Jetspeed 1.4 final, this drop down is populated.
Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, how did you overcome it? Before you answer, I have tried the following without success:
1. I have tried renaming my module in the module.packages path to com.company.modules.actions
2. I have tried moving my custom actions and parameters into the Jetspeed source tree. So instead of my actions having the package name com.company.modules.actions.portlets, they are at org.apache.jetspeed.modules.actions.portlets
3. I have tried using the local file-based psml instead the psml I had in the database.
4. I have tried putting my .class files in a .jar file and putting the jar in the web app's WEB-INF/lib directory.
I am using Tomcat 4.1.24 for deployment and using MySQL 3.23.58 for my database.
Any help or advice you can give will be tremendously appreciated as I have been trying to figure this one out for the better half of the Thanksgiving holiday.
- Michael James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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