Thanks for your input guys, but I have to say, there is no Portlet selector
in the install base. The previous instance of Jetspeed 2.0 was just the
binaries. It was a custom install as part of a larger product distribution
and
to reduce disk space usage, all the unnecessary elements and I assume the
jetspeed admin interface was stripped from the distribution. I am just
stipulating
what I know at this point in time.
The portlet in question does have a portlet.xml file and I have no idea if
the application follows JSR 168 specification as I didn't create it myself.
As I
had mentioned, the pages work on their own, but when absorbed within the
jetspeed collective, it doesn't.
I wish I can say more.....I wish I knew more....but I have been stuck with
this
development. :-)
This particular portlet does have a WAR file, and the others that do not
appear
to work as they have the portlet.xml specification in the WEB-INF directory.
Thanks again....guess I am on my own on this one.
Paul
Eva Petro wrote:
>
> Hi Paul
>
>>>There is no portlet selector in our system. The Jetspeed distribution is
>>>pretty much the core (i.e., no additional libraries/pages beyond the
>>>absolute minimum
>
> In my experience, it is pretty much impossible to install Jetspeed 2.1.3
> without the portal selector. The minimal installation includes it, as it
> is
> an essential tool.
>
> - Log in as admin
> - Select the modify page icon
> - Click "Add portlet"
>
> That will put you in the portlet selector. Portlets that are properly
> configured and ready for use will show up in this screen. To add a
> portlet,
> click on the Add link for the portlet. You can add one or more instances
> to
> the page (the count field shows how many). Click the green back arrow next
> to the search box when done.
>
> Also, debugging is pretty easy - very similar to debugging a standard
> J2EE
> app. Jetspeed is simply a J2EE application that runs inside Tomcat. The
> trick is to start Tomcat from inside Eclipse:
>
> - Create a project in Eclipse that includes all your portlet source.
> - Make sure all the portlet source code is on the Java source path, and
> compiles without errors.
> - Download and install the Tomcat plugin for Eclipse
> - Configure the plugin to point to the Jetspeed base directory (typically
> C:\Apache\Jetspeed-2.1.3 on Windows)
> - Start Tomcat from the start icon
> - Put breakpoints in interesting places
> - Open a browser on Jetspeed, and the breakpoints will be hit when
> executed.
>
> You can also start Jetspeed (well Tomcat to be exact) externally in debug
> mode and connect Eclipse as a remote debugger. This is covered in the
> Eclipse and Tomcat documetation.
>
> Getting a debugging environment going is an essential part of
> troubleshooting J2EE applications. If you are unfamiliar with this, take a
> day or two to come up to speed. It will pay back your time investment many
> times over.
>
> As Ron Wheeler said, it is hard to imagine how you can have portlets
> without
> corresponding portlet application .war files. JSR168 mandates this. Some
> thoughts:
>
> - Are you sure your Jetspeed 2.0 code is playing by the JSR168 rules?
> - Perhaps what you have is just a Tomcat installation without portlets?
> - If you have not installed .war files into Jetspeed 2.1.3, then results
> could be indeterminate. Jetspeed consumes the .war, and installs any
> portlets it finds in it. These need to have valid descriptors in the
> portlet.xml file. Without a portlet.xml, there are no portlets, so
> displaying nothing sounds quite reasonable.
>
> Best of luck...
>
> Regards
>
> Ron
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "brunp" <paul.b...@gmail.com>
> To: <jetspeed-user@portals.apache.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Portlet shows up "blank", no content
>
>
>>
>> OK......I appreciate the effort in trying to get answers, but I am also
>> very
>> new to the entire Jetspeed process.
>>
>> -> Does the portlet show up in the portlet selector?
>>
>> There is no portlet selector in our system. The Jetspeed distribution is
>> pretty much the core (i.e., no additional libraries/pages beyond the
>> absolute minimum
>>
>> --> Can you install it on a portal page without an exception being
>> thrown?
>>
>> I can not simply add a portal and see if it is installed correctly.
>> Jetspeed
>> is part of a much larger product in which Jetspeed is simply a means to
>> incorporate pages from another website locations. I don't have the source
>> for those pages, just links to the webapp locations within Tomcat.
>>
>> --> When you first bring up the page (after refreshing the .war file), do
>> you see any messages going past on the console? At minimum I would expect
>> a
>> "myapp.war installed successfully" or similar.
>>
>> Nothing shows up in the console, and as there are no "WAR" files, nothing
>> really shows up. I do see the JAVA code within the Webapp being executed,
>> but the content does not show up....
>>
>> -->Do you see the JSP(s) being compiled in the Tomcat /work directory?
>>
>> The JSP's are pre-compiled @ build time.....
>>
>> As for logs, this is another issue because no logs are produced based on
>> the
>> Log4j.properties. No matter what I do and how I configure the properties
>> files, no logs are produced to: ${applicationRoot}/logs. I do see
>> JetspeedContainerServlet logs from within the tomcat logging
>> infrastructure,
>> but nothing there indicates there is an issue or exception.
>>
>> Paul
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