I'd like to add, that you can't use html, head, body and such tags
since you're only producing a fragment of a whole page. So you will
have to change your jsp files there.

The point about the forms is correct - they need to be posted to an
action url. For creating links and encoding parameters in them see the
portlet:actionURL and portlet:renderURL tags. These URLs are generated
by the portlet container so that if you click on such a link, the
portlet container knows which portlet it has to invoke.

That's all I can think of for the moment...

2006/5/15, Brice Lambi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
First thing is to create your portlet.xml file.  Make an entry for each new
portlet.  Be sure to use an example portlet.xml file as a template, it is a
little more complex than web.xml (you will also need a web.xml file, but it
doesn't need to contain any information about your portlets).  You will need
to change every occurance of "Servlet" to "Portlet" in your source code.
Like getServletContext() -> getPortletContext().  The method calls are
almost exactly the same with the same result, so you should have little
trouble here.

The PortletSession object is the only thing that I can think of that differs
slightly from it's servlet counter part.  The setAttribute method has an
extra parameter for setting the scope.  Check the jetspeed javadocs for more
info on that.

If you have written your servlet to follow the concept that a http get
request handles display and a post request handles an action, you should be
able to rename doGet to doView and change the parameters from ServletRequest
and Response to RenderRequest and Response.  Then change doPost to
processAction with ActionRequest and Response as the parameters.

Some problems you might have:  You cannot set the content type of a response
in a portlet.  That is ulitmately set by the portal.  You will not have a
PortletOuputStream to replace the ServletOutputStream.  If you were using
http get to submit forms, that will probably not work.  I believe that a
form needs to use the post method in order for the portal to actually call
your processAction method (that has been the case with some other portal
systems I have used).

I'm sure I have forgotten something, but this should get you started.



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