Can anyone on earth help with this - i have been trying to get Jetspeed2 
working for 3 days now! - i've gone to http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-
2/getting-started.html and downloaded Maven onto C:\maven-2.0.4 with the 
respository automatically downloading to C:\Documents and Settings\dimen01\.m2
\repository, i've downlaoded ANT 1.5 at C:\apache-ant-1.6.5 - both maven and 
ANT are installed (ant -version and maven--version give results at DOS 
prompt) - i've also changed the PATH variable in environmental varibales 
(Control panel->System->Advanced->environmental variables->%PATH% to 
C:\j2sdk1.4.2_12\bin;C:\apache-ant-1.6.5\bin;C:\maven-2.0.4\bin;), i've 
downloaded the 'installer' version at http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-
2/getting-started-installer.html to C:\Program Files\Apache Jetspeed 2.0, 
started startup.bat, went to http://localhost:8080/jetspeed/portal and walla, 
there she was! - so far so good right? - anyway, logged on as 'admin', 
password 'admin', changed password and logged in again - great! - so far so 
good! - so navigated around to see how i could test my installation - see 
a 'simplest portal in the world' example i could try out at 
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/guides/guide-simple-portlet.html - 
followed these steps but couln't execute the maven command 'javac -cp 
~/.maven/repository/org.apache.portals.jetspeed-2/jars/portlet-api-1.0.jar 
Simplest.java' though got around this by putting the portlet-api path in the 
CLASSPATH variable in the autoexec.bat system file in the C directory (Windows 
Explorer->Tools->folder Options->View->DETICK 'hide protected operating system 
files (recommended)' option->goto C directory->right click on autoexec.bat and 
choose 'edit'->add path - 

set PATH=C:\j2sdk1.4.2_12\bin;%PATH% 
set JAVA_HOME=C:\j2sdk1.4.2_12 
set CLASSPATH=.;C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9\common\lib\servlet-api.jar;C:\jakarta-
tomcat-5.5.9\common\lib\jsp-api.jar;C:\Servlets+JSP;..;..\..;C:\jakarta-struts-
1.2.4\lib\struts.jar;C:\Program Files\Apache Jetspeed 2.0\shared\lib\portlet-
api-1.0.jar) 

so i could compile simplest.java – the following steps were then taken 
- created simplest folder at C:\Program Files\Apache Jetspeed 2.0
\webapps\simplest – 
- Compiled simplest.java in C:\Program Files\Apache Jetspeed 2.0
\webapps\simplest\WEB-INF\classes\simplest.class
- created web.xml and portlet.xml in C:\Program Files\Apache Jetspeed 2.0
\webapps\simplest\WEB-INF
- from DOS prompt, goto C:\Program Files\Apache Jetspeed 2.0\webapps\simplest 
and deploy the war using “jar cvf ../simplest.war .” 
Now, the C:\Program Files\Apache Jetspeed 2.0\webapps directory contains the 
simplest.war and the webapps/simplest folder is empty – I copied this 
simplest.war file to the /webapps/jetspeed/WEB-INF/deploy folder – on the 
Tomcat output I get…something like ‘INFO: Missing application web.xml, using 
defaults only StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext
[/simplest]’ but on the deployment log, I see that it has been deployed!

I tried to goto to the Portlet Application manager and add simplest portlet 
that way 
(http://localhost:8080/jetspeed/portal/_ns:YXBhbS0yfGMx/Administrative/pam.psml
) but no luck! – couldn’t see it to add it? – so I went to the next step in 
the tutorial and tried creating the simplest.psml – created this and added 
it ‘exactly’ according to the tutorial if anyone wants to have a look – and 
added it to the webapps/jetspeed/WEB-INF/pages directory – but when I went to 
http://localhost:8080/jetspeed/portal/simplest.psml, I got that awful error:

Title Error: Cannot pass a null PortletDefinition to a PortletEntity. 
  Failed to retrieve Portlet Definition for simplest::SimplestFailed to 
retrieve Portlet Definition for 
simplest::Simplestjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot pass a null 
PortletDefinition to a PortletEntity.Failed to retrieve Portlet Definition for 
simplest::SimplestFailed to retrieve Portlet Definition for simplest::Simplest 

PLEASE CAN ANYONE OUT THERE RESCUE ME? – I’ve been reading up on the web and a 
lot of people have this initial problem when starting with Jetspeed2 – there 
was an especially helpful bolg on this site but they seemed to get it sorted! –
 how luck was that?



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