Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
When do I need to use <portlet-preference> and when to use <init-param>
to initialize a portlet?
PortletPreferences and Portlet initParameters have a completely different scope
and usage.
Init parameters are used by the portlet *instance* for configuration of the general/overall behavior of the portlet for
all users.
PortletPreferences are *user* scoped parameters, e.g. each user (potentially) can have (and optionally maintain) its own
values. In the portlet.xml you define *default* values for PortletPreferences.
PortletPreferences which are readonly however will be similar to init
parameters in that regard, but might be (runtime)
modified by an administrator (like through the j2-admin portlets).
In any case portlet init parameters are never modifiable and are intended to be used from the Portlet.init() method
primarily.
In addition to this, Jetspeed also allows you to define (PSML) fragment based PortletPreferences to provide
PortletWindow specific (overrides of) preferences defined in the portlet.xml. These too serve as default values
(overlaying thosse in portlet.xml) which can be edited/modified with the custom Jetspeed "edit_defaults" PortletMode.
See also:
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/guides/guide-psml.html#Preferences
Regards,
Ate
I couldn't find any documentation about the parameters that I need to
pass when initializing a portlet or a description of what each of them
would do. On the other hand, there's many portlet classes that are
useful but they are scattered in different jars (ie, FilePortlet,
WebContentPortlet, HTMLPortlet, IFramePortlet ...etc, these are only for
static contents). It would be nice if there's a list of all the
portlets that come with JS2 with the jar that I need to include to
access them.
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