[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: getting User-Agent data from inside included jsp

2005-04-25 Thread joehobson
Thanks for clarifying Julien. I've entered it as a JIRA issue. http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-240 View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3875304#3875304 Reply to the post :

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - getting User-Agent data from inside included jsp

2005-04-24 Thread joehobson
I'm creating a portlet that needs to make decisions based on the user's browser. In the portlet code i can get that okay with... request.getProperty(user-agent) if i try to do the view with JSP, i'm supposed to be able to get the same information with... request.getHeader(user-agent) but

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: portlet resource bundles

2005-03-27 Thread joehobson
Thanks Julien, that was it. The portlet code and jsp both work well now with the resource bundle. ... .joe View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3871739#3871739 Reply to the post :

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: portlet resource bundles

2005-03-25 Thread joehobson
This appears to be a bug in JBP. The way the portal loads resource files for portlets does not seem to match the standard, or the way it loads for jsp views. So from what i have seen, to load a properties file for portlet (java) access, i must name the file something like

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: portlet resource bundles

2005-03-23 Thread joehobson
Ok, i figured out that problem, after more research on these forums and elsewhere. For those reading this that might be like the answer... the name of the properties file needs to be com.mycompany.Whatever.properites, not in that directory location. I guess it doesnt really matter too much what

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - portlet resource bundles

2005-03-21 Thread joehobson
I'm writing a portlet (for JSR-168 compliance, not just JBP), and i'm having trouble getting the resource bundle loaded. The porlet.xml file has this entry... | portlet | ... | resource-bundlecom.portalbook.portlets.todo.todoResourceBundle/resource-bundle | ... | /portlet | I

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: custom portlet page

2005-03-07 Thread joehobson
i have the Google portlet working, and can send you my war if you'd like. I'm not sure exactly what crazy steps i had to do to get it to work, but i had some similar issues. Do you have the googleapi.jar file in WEB-INF\lib ? That's my only guess at this point. I've compared my xml files to the

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: custom portlet page

2005-02-26 Thread joehobson
Thomas, thanks so much for replying with help. You're a life saver (because i stopped banging my head before it killed me). I can get the portlet page just fine now. There were multiple problems, one of which was the missing jboss-portlet.xml file. Some documentation feedback: | the

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: hibernate issues

2005-02-26 Thread joehobson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : an advice here, for your own hibernate sessions try to use the same datasource the portal uses otherwise, you'll have distributed transactions which is not necessary in that case. Can you give some quick advice on how to do this? I don't have alot of experience with

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: hibernate issues

2005-02-26 Thread joehobson
Ugh nevermind. Banged my head some more, read some more Hibernate docs so i could wrap my head around it, and finally figured it out. For all the other newbies out there, searching for the answers - the hibernate.cfg.xml is read when the sessionFactory is created only when you use the

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - custom portlet page

2005-02-25 Thread joehobson
using latest JBP from cvs, JB 4.01, mySQL I'm trying to view a custom portlet and can't seem to get the page to load. The reference shows that the URL for my page would be something like /portal/index.html?page=hello but the page=xxx syntax doesn't seem to work anymore (testing with

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: CMS portlet : 404 error

2005-02-23 Thread joehobson
JBoss 4.01 doesn't have a standard, it's default --- so is the data store location hardcoded in? I've heard that using JB 4.01 requires some tweaks (like putting some jar files into the default/lib), but is there a list of those tweaks anywhere? I'd rather not have to install 4.00 after i have

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Custom look/feel

2005-02-22 Thread joehobson
I know that there were alot of messages going back and forth over the last few weeks about Theme Development (http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopict=59798), but that seemed to turn into a discussion of how to change the code to make themes/skins easier in the future. So, for

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - CMS portlet : 404 error

2005-02-22 Thread joehobson
From an earlier post... anonymous wrote : If you have a portlet saying HTTP 404 error, then you need to make sure the cms-content-zip is unzipped in the data directory of your application (it should be done automatically) I have this issue on the front page (/portal/) on first load. Fresh

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: Build Fails....

2005-01-22 Thread joehobson
I seem to have sidetracked this build problem, by pulling explode.jar out of jboss-portal/tools/lib/ and trying the build over again. Of course i ran into a new issue when i did that one, further down the build. The JavaCC issue, which seemed to be resolved by changing the format/build.xml file

[JBoss-dev] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: Build Fails....

2005-01-20 Thread joehobson
I downloaded JBoss Portal tonight, from CVS, and have been trying to get it to build. Looks like there might be some old nukes references in there still. Here's the error i get on the build... BUILD FAILED |

[JBoss-dev] [JBoss Portal Development] - Such Speed

2004-11-30 Thread joehobson
I've kinda checked out of the Nukes dev community for a few months, so seeing the new JBoss Portal stuff was a little bit of a shock. But then, going thru the site (jboss.org), which i assume is running JBoss Portal - wow! such speed. If this is a proof-of-concept for what the Portal does and

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: Is it true that if company writes custom module it must

2004-07-20 Thread joehobson
I had the same questions awhile back and Julien did a pretty good job explaining as much as he understands. I'm still not sure that i understand, but enough for what i need to know. see the previous post here... http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopict=49856 I'm looking forward

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: i18n dev setup

2004-06-23 Thread joehobson
I'm more than a little confused by the localization/i18n stuff now. Anyone out there that knows what they're doing in this area? it's a learning experience, so i'll share what i've got I'm using RedHat 8.0, so it has locale information, but it's not exactly clear how to configure it, or if

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - i18n dev setup

2004-06-16 Thread joehobson
I've never done any development with i18n, but always thought it interesting. I'd like to play with creating a Nukes module with multiple language files. I'm using RedHat 8.0 / Eclipse 3M8 / Mozilla but i don't think i have anything more than English available for this OS. Any tips on how to

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: Seeking vendors-developers for building web site

2004-06-15 Thread joehobson
Peter, Interesting idea for a site. I hope you get some good proposals. Just wanted to drop a tip for you - if you don't get any proposals that you're happy with you might consider posting the project to one of the freelancer boards and see what bids you get. My edu organization has used

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Template Module update

2004-06-03 Thread joehobson
When i started looking at Nukes a few months ago and wanted to quickly see how to create my own module, the template module was very helpful. It gives a quick easy introduction to .tpl template files, basic module operations, and i18n resource files. I've heard talk that Nukes will be moving

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: postgres and cmp issues

2004-05-20 Thread joehobson
jae77 wrote : i've checked in the latest changes that should resolve the postgres compatiblity issues. | ... | let me know if you have any problems. I updated via CVS and it works great on my postgreSQL database. Thanks for your hard work on this one. I was beginning to wonder if CMP was

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: Modules under GPL?

2004-05-18 Thread joehobson
Ok I think i have a better handle on it. Read some of the FAQ on GNU http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublicand it was pretty clear, at least parts of it. You can develop it internally just fine, but if you distribute then it has to be under GPL. And i do think

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: postgres and cmp issues

2004-05-17 Thread joehobson
I posted an update with some additional thoughts on the user side, continuing the previous discussion. The dev forum is a better place for CMP issues than the user area of course. See what i speculated on that side... http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopict=48788start=10 ...

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Modules under GPL?

2004-05-17 Thread joehobson
I've worked with some open source stuff in the past but never really took time to understand the licensing terms until the last few weeks. I started wondering about JBoss and Nukes and how those fit into open source licensing. The JBoss site explains that the JBossAS is licensed under LGPL

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: postgres and cmp issues

2004-05-17 Thread joehobson
I downloaded your changes for the TopicEJB and tried it out with no luck - same problem as before. Since i didn't completely understand how it would be different from the faq module I dropped my faq tables (manually this time, relied on the installer to do it last time) and rebuilt redeployed

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: Is the plan to move to portlets?

2004-04-06 Thread joehobson
I just wanted to voice my support of the JSR 168 portlet spec being implimented in Nukes. I really like Nukes- the developers, the code, the philosophy et al. At the same time I'm looking at building a portlet so that it doesn't matter which portal my clients want to use- uPortal, Sakai,

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: Display options: Templates / XSLT / JSP

2004-04-01 Thread joehobson
Thanks for response to this one. Maybe I made it look too much like a statement and not enough like a question. For those newbies (like me) that go thru the forums looking for the answer to this question, please keep in mind that my statements above ARE NOT the answer, merely what i was trying

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Display options: Templates / XSLT / JSP

2004-03-26 Thread joehobson
So i'm just digging in to develop a module to use on Nukes. I'm sure some out there will agree with me that it's so completely clear where to begin. Since there's a module in there called Template, i duped the code from that one and made it my own. Not sure if this is what was intended, but it

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: HTML module updated

2004-03-15 Thread joehobson
Thanks Julien. Sounds like the HTML module has had a nice little update. We very much appreciate the work you put into this... .joe a href=http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3825632#3825632;View the original post/a a

[JBoss-dev] [Nukes Development] - Re: Making nukes more userfriendly

2004-03-12 Thread joehobson
I'd definitely agree that Nukes needs to be a bit more user friendly. But i do understand from my own developments in the past, that it's often more important to get the project up and running before worrying about ease of use and look feel. My own personal usablity issue is that when i login