A portlet could be the cafeteria menu or a speedometer. Now forget ant liferay 7 use a build tool gradle for creating portlets or we can say bundles. The tutorial should have given you a basic understanding of portlet development with struts 2, and that it is not very different from using struts 2 in a regular web application. Spring framework was initially written by rod johnson and was first released under the apache 2.
Liferay tutorial liferay portal portlet tutorial journaldev. This site consists of a compilation of public information available on the internet. Introduction to spring portlets java programming tutorials. There are different types of portlet containers such as apache pluto, oracle web center and liferay. In this tutorial, you learned how to create a portlet, using websphere portlet factory, that runs on websphere portal and accesses a database. The business scenarios are more complicated then normal and they require a full knowledge about the portlet, portlet life cycle and how could provide a compliant enhanced portlet that complying with the latest standards presented at the portlet field. This module is also called spring mvcportlet module. You saw how portlet factory automates the creation of portlet artifacts such as jsp pages, xml schema, java code, and so on. In the presented introduction about apache pluto, weve mainly discussed the most simple portlet application that you may have.
Liferay with spring make us better way of using spring capabilities and liferay capabilities. Liferay supported spring based portlet and we can deploy into liferay portal server. This websphere portal and spring tutorial demonstrates how to create simple portlet filters using the lightweight spring framework. Note that this tutorial assumes that youre familiar with basic struts 2 web application programming. Development of a simple portlet with spring mvc isos technology. This is the 2nd article in the 3part series of articles focusing on spring 3. Building jsf applications with spring and hibernate javaone 2008. Jun 19, 2012 liferay portlet tutorials pdf products and names mentioned are the property of their respective owners. An introduction to portlet programming this portlet programming tutorial is an introduction to developing jsr286 applications that can be deployed to any standardsbased portal server. Liferay spring portlet tutorial meera prince liferay have provided flexibility to develop portlet with different web framework such as jsf, spring, struts and vaadin. This article is taken from the book portlets in action from manning publications. When present, click the maximize button in the title bar of the portlet to maximize it within the dashboard.
Portlet component can be dragged over the page and swapped with other portlets. Notes instead of using the maven 2 jetty plugin to run the tutorial, you can check out the jettyplutolauncher which is included in the test sources. You must be licensed for workpapers cs and have the appropriate security privileges set up to activate this service. Were now going to take a look at some of the things that portlet 2. Spring portlet mvc framework provides easy integration with popular viewrendering technologies such as jstl, apache tiles, and apache velocity. After we configure a wellstructred maven layout for our liferay project, we will create a simple spring mvc portlet. Currently i am facing problems with wiring and couldnt understand concept behind it how to pass more than one parameter using wiring.
Hello world portlet rendered with jsp for websphere portal version 4. It is possible to create other types of portlets though i. In addition to supporting conventional servletbased web development, spring also supports jsr168 portlet development. A stepbystep jenkins tutorial for beginners undo bad. Part 1 provides an overview of the java portlet specifications and explains in detail one of the main features. This tutorial has been written based on spring framework. Here is spring portlet docs, its showing how we configure portlet using portlet. The portlet mvc framework provides a mock testing framework that you can use for testdriven development of your portlet. It has an xml element about mimetype, see if you can give the value, application pdf, there. For information about portlets that are available in the workpapers dashboard, see workpapers portlets, overview. In this chapter, i will demonstrate how to use spring web mvc framework.
In this threepart series, the articles describe new features available in the java portlet specification 2. Now that you have successfully created your first portlet, lets create another one. Its easy why restrict your portlet to only run on liferay. You may ask, why use spring mvc and not extend one of the liferay implementations e. Also, lifecycle methods belonging to a single portlet need not be in the same class. Portal layout creation with portlet tutorials point. In spring portlet mvc, the controllerhandler class and not the portlet class contains the.
Jul 11, 2008 this tutorial shows you how to create a basic jsr 168 portlet. Dec 12, 2012 this session aims to get to the bottom and basics of portal and portlet technologies. This section describes how to create a simple jsr168 portlet in eclipse and register it with the aqualogic interaction portal. Spring framework is an open source java platform that provides comprehensive infrastructure support for developing robust java applications very easily and very rapidly. This tutorial shows you how to create a basic jsr 168 portlet. Building portals with the java portlet api jeff linwood, dave minter. This article is a stepbystep tutorial on spring portlet mvc framework.
Edit on github back to plugins struts 2 portlet tutorial creating a simple bookmark portlet. In this article, we will learn about programming portlets using spring portlets framework which is a layer built on top of java portlet specification jsr 168. Developing a spring portlet mvc framework application for. To undeploy a portlet,choose the portlet under driver in runtime tab,right click and choose undeploy portlet examples. As much as possible, the portlet mvc framework is a mirror image of the web mvc framework, and also uses the same underlying view abstractions and integration technology. This session aims to get to the bottom and basics of portal and portlet technologies. This tutorial is intended to provide you a full detailed explanation for getting liferay portal up and running and deploy the same employee registration sample that we had developed in earlier tutorial. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. We will talk about how portlet technology has grown through various specifications.
Liferay portal enterprise builds upon the portlet api jsr 168 to provide users with a rich set of portlets. Jun 23, 2010 spring portlet is a framework released from spring community for easier development of java portlets. You may have seen how easy it is to write a portlet. Spring framework i about the tutorial spring framework is an open source java platform that provides comprehensive infrastructure support for developing robust java applications very easily and very rapidly. The following are examples from the portlets bundled with liferay. The portlet you create will implement the view mode and display the message hello, world. This behaviour allows you to rearrange your web page elements the way you want. Struts 2 portlet tutorial apache struts 2 wiki apache. Good portal tutorials from the scratch portals and portlets.
This simplified hello world portlet example allows a user to set the message that is displayed within a portlet. The portlets can be personalized by users, for example, users can change the number of emails they want to view in the portlet, number of cnn headlines news they want to view or set the location from. First take an example of lotus form server portlet, its showing the way how to allow multiple mimetype while configuring the portlet using portlet. Developing portlets using eclipse and websphere portlet factory. You may have been introduced to the basics of the portlet api and used features from portlet 1. Because the spring portlet mvc framework takes care of dispatching the request and passing the. If it is empty, then we add the validation error that contactid is a required field. Session portlet simple portlet is modified to store the preferences in session variable. My jsf portlet tutorial portals and portlets forum at coderanch. This article also covers some details about java portlet specification. This article is taken from the book portlets in action. In liferay 7 every portlet is osgi bundle which is easily maintained by gogo shell commands.
In addition to supporting conventional servletbased web development, spring also supports jsr286 portlet development. Spring portlet is a framework released from spring community for easier development of java portlets. Spring portlet development, we can use all liferay apis so that we can develop portlets very easy and if the developers have best understanding about spring then its good choice to develop spring portlets in liferay. The following is the content i proposed to write and please provide feedback and add your ideas through comments. It would be good if give one more example of jsf portlet using rad by creating portlet project. The spring framework is an application framework and inversion of control container for the java platform. Portlet filters and spring tutorial the server side.
Its part of a threepart series that creates a portlet example using the spring 3. Because websphere portal is the framework, you can think of portlets as the pieces of art we place into the frames created by websphere portal. Jsp and portlet api taglib apache software foundation. Which portlet class to be used for liferay jsf portlets these portlets are using sun portlet api. May 23, 2016 i love the power and simplicity of the spring framework, and given the fact that portal servers like websphere are often seen as being overly complicated and cumbersome, integrating a simple framework like spring into the often intimidating portlet api can both simplify and accelerate development. There are three main types of portlets typically created in dotcms, the velocity, struts or jsp portlet. To develope portlets we completely use sun portlet api. Note that you can mix jsp and a java class for the implementation of your java class. Simple portlet welcomes a user based on the user preferences set in edit page. Pdf owner manuals and user guides are not affiliated with the products andor names mentioned in this site.
In our sample case, we check if contactid is empty. Building a java desktop database application netbeans 6. Hi liferay savvy visitors i am going to write tutorial about liferay technology. The portlet code sends a portlet setting to a set preferences page, which stores it in the ali database and redirects to the portal, refreshing the portlet display. Jsr168 portlet specification defined on the java community process jcp website.