Hi Stefan, On 2/23/06, Stefan Weinert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hate to spam this group as a beginner but I'm very confused with which way > is best suited for developing the portal. > > First I installed the installer version, looked at the demo portal. I have > to say I really like it and the psml docs are very good, too. > > When trying to get the simples portlet to run the docs say that I have to > build the portal.
I'm going to pull that out because it is not actually necessary. The only reason that is there is to deploy the psml from your workspace. The guide should say optional or rather or create a new page in the jetspeed/WEB-INF/pages or use the admin portlet to create a new page and add the portlet. > Fine I've installed maven and build the maven hello world project to see if > maven works on my windows machine. > > What is the installer version good for if I can't even get the simplest > portlet to run with it? Is it just for use as a demo? If that's the case it > should be indicated. > > If I can't use the installer version which is better the maven plugin or > building from source? I prefer building from source. The plugin is useful for database tasks. > > The building from source instructions are very tough for beginners > especially when working on a windows machine (unfortunately mostly beginners > will probably do that). > The page instructing how to build the maven plugin from eclipse is 404'ed. > > Don't get me wrong. I know that as a beginner everything looks more > complicated than it really is. On almost every page it's mentioned that the > build process is very easy with maven - that makes me think how complicated > it would be withouth. I still didn't get any version of J2 -besides the > installer- to run. > > If you read this far you might take that extra minute to point me to the > right direction? Check out the source and create a file called build.properties at the root with the following properties, org.apache.jetspeed.server.home=/home/phil/20051223/opensource/bin/apache-tomcat-5.5.12 org.apache.jetspeed.server.shared=/home/phil/20051223/opensource/bin/apache-tomcat-5.5.12/shared/lib org.apache.jetspeed.deploy.war.dir=/home/phil/20051223/opensource/bin/apache-tomcat-5.5.12/webapps org.apache.jetspeed.services.autodeployment.user=j2deployer org.apache.jetspeed.services.autodeployment.password=j2deployer org.apache.jetspeed.catalina.version.major=5.5 org.apache.jetspeed.project.home=/home/phil/20051223/opensource/svnProjects/jetspeed-2 I'm assuming that you got the jdk, tomcat, and maven parts installed. Mikko mentions some good tips to avoid problems. Run the following commands (the -o will run maven in offline mode remove it if it complains about dependencies) maven initMavenPlugin maven -o allBuild maven -o j2:quickStart Start Tomcat with the command 'catalina run'. kill with Ctrl-C There is also a new Maven 2 build that is under development. > > ste > > > --------------------------------- > Telefonieren Sie ohne weitere Kosten mit Ihren Freunden von PC zu PC! > Jetzt Yahoo! Messenger installieren! > -- Philip Donaghy donaghy.blogspot.com del.icio.us/donaghy/philip Skype: philipmarkdonaghy Office: +33 5 56 60 88 02 Mobile: +33 6 20 83 22 62 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
