Robert, As Arlo mentioned, you will need to disable the JS/CSS caching by commenting out the pageCachingFilter from web.xml as well as changing the caching properties in portal.properties.
For 3.2, you will additionally have to disable the aggregration of the JS/CSS files (which puts all of the files of like kind into a single file). There is a handy portlet for this called Toggle Resources Aggregation. You may need to add this portlet to your layout. The portlet has a simple button that turns the aggregation of the files on/off. Disable the aggregation to have the portal refer to the un-mininfied, non-aggregated versions of the JS/CSS files. Gary Thompson User Experience Leader Unicon | www.unicon.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arlo White" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "Robert R. Miller II" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:15:25 AM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona) Subject: Re: [uportal-dev] Setting Up uPortal 3.2 for Front-End Development There was some talk about making this easier to do... On 3.1.2 I do this (these settings may have changed in 3.2 though): Edit: /uportal-impl/src/main/resources/properties/portal.properties Set XSLT caching off: org.jasig.portal.utils.XSLT.stylesheet_set_caching=off org.jasig.portal.utils.XSLT.stylesheet_root_caching=off Edit: /uportal-war/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml Turn off JS/CSS caching, without doing this JS/CSS changes require a app server restart. Comment or delete the following sections: <filter> <filter-name>pageCachingFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>targetFilterLifecycle</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>pageCachingFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>*.js</url-pattern> <url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> To make it easier to deploy updates I added these targets to build.xml <target name="css.directInject" description="Directly inject css files to deploy location and overwrites *.min.css files"> <!-- Copy all skins files --> <copy toDir="${server.webapps}/ROOT/media/skins" verbose="true"> <fileset dir="uportal-war/src/main/webapp/media/skins"> <include name="**/*" /> </fileset> </copy> <!-- Overwrite *.min.css files with uncompressed files --> <copy toDir="${server.webapps}/ROOT/media/skins" verbose="true"> <fileset dir="uportal-war/src/main/webapp/media/skins"> <include name="**/*.css" /> </fileset> <globmapper from="*.css" to="*.min.css" /> </copy> </target> <target name="xsl.directInject" description="Directly inject xsl theme files to deploy location"> <!-- Copy all skins files --> <copy toDir="${server.webapps}/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/layout/theme/universality" verbose="true"> <fileset dir="uportal-war/src/main/resources/layout/theme/universality"> <include name="**/*.xsl" /> </fileset> </copy> </target> Your workflow should now just be to edit XSL or CSS files and then run ant xsl.directInject or css.directInject I think the user session still caches XSL, so you may have to logout and log back in for an XSL change. Better than having to restart the server though. Maybe there's a way to disable the user's session from caching XSL so you can just click refresh instead of relogging? -Arlo On 05/27/2010 09:45 AM, Robert R. Miller II wrote: > Hey there uPortal community. > > I am new to the uPortal development effort so please forgive me for having to > ask the newbie questions. We are attempting a development effort centered > around front-end theme and skin work, starting from the > uPortal-3.2.1-quick-start-dev tarball, and need to know how to effectively > disable the caching in order to increase productivity. We have had no success > with the following 3.1 instruction set > (http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPM31/20+Developing+in+the+Themes+and+Skins+Areas+of+uPortal) > and am, at this point, reaching out to the community for some assistance. > > Any and all responses to this general inquiry would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance to those who do respond. > > ~R > > Robert R Miller II > Lead Programmer/Analyst > Integrated Web Services > Cornell Information Technologies > Cornell University > (607) 254-5196 > > "Become the change you seek in the world!" > > > -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
