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1. Portletfilter to change locale?    stackoverflow.com

the ServletResponse provides a setLocale() method to modify the locale of a response which is not commited yet. The PortletResponse doesn't provide such a method, only getLocale() - is there any ...

2. SAP Portal with thirdparty content    stackoverflow.com

Anyone integrated SAP Portal with a third party web content management system (e.g., Vignette)? I don't have too much exposure to SAP Portal, but I know it provides a J2EE App ...

3. How to programatically get the background color of a JSR-186/286 portlet    stackoverflow.com

How can I programatically determine what the background color of my portlet will be before it's rendered? (ie in the init() or doview() functions). I want to make an embedded flash movie ...

4. What does a portlet bridge do?    stackoverflow.com

In an interview today I mentioned that I had done some jsf work in a portlet. The interviewer asked for specifics on what the portlet-bridge does. I never looked ...

5. Portlet: Forward a ResourceRequest to show the full portal    stackoverflow.com

my intention is to process a ResourceRequest that serves a resource (A dinamically generated PDF). If something goes wrong generating this file, the whole portal with a failure message in the ...

6. Convert J2EE application to host portlets    stackoverflow.com

i have a j2EE application , almost identical to facebook , there is a section called business apps , where the user can choose among several applications to include or exclude ...

7. How to configure a portlet in CQ5 by war file     stackoverflow.com

I am trying to configure to use CQ as a portal. I am referring to the link for Using CQ as a Portal : http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/5-3/administering/cq_as_portal.html ...

9. How do i create java portal application?    coderanch.com

I would start with a Google search. There are frameworks out there for building portals. Asking how to build one in here is like asking how to build an application. We're here to help out if you get stuck on a specific issue but "how to build a portal" is way beyond the scope of a forum.





10. using css in my portal    coderanch.com

Hi, I'm developing porlets (mostly the jsp files to which my portlets dispatch). My portlets/jsp's will be deployed on the sun one portal server. I am not using the sun one portal server themes, but instead I want to use css files to enhance my portal graphics. But how can I do this? How can I apply these css files to ...

11. what is the most clean implementation of Portal related specs    coderanch.com

It depends on your view and your definition of Clean, LifeRay has most widest community between OS portals , it is most completed portal system , features like : hot deploy , very easy portlet decoration , good support for themes ,... make it a good choice , hence portal systems like StringBeans are very promissing .i used StringBean for one ...

13. choosing a portal ?    coderanch.com

chinedu, I don't know Spring Portlet MVC in detail, but the examples provided as download work on Pluto 1.0.1. So you should be able to deploy and test your portlets (if comparable to the examples) on this portlet container. Just use the Pluto Portal Driver, it is sufficient for testing. I am not sure what "webshpere portal framework" is. If you ...

14. Portal development    coderanch.com

16. Portal - getting started / understanding    coderanch.com

I am doing analysis on a web app that is struts based, we do an ldap lookup through EAServer to authenticate and then enter the struts framework upon success. It has been proposed that the login routine become a separate web application so that we can arrive at a home page and from there lauch other applications that will have varied ...





18. Portal with Java    coderanch.com

19. Unable to get WindowState to change in Sun Portal 7    coderanch.com

Maybe I'm not understanding the concept, but when setting the WindowState to MAXIMIZED, isn't the portlet supposed to take up all of the container space? Well, mine doesn't. I don't get an error, but the portlet doesn't seem to be able to switch states, although in Pluto is works just fine, in P7 it doesn't. All of the code works, but ...

20. Fresher in Portal    coderanch.com

21. Java nuke portal    coderanch.com

22. Portal - Development - Disparate sources    coderanch.com

hello Guys, I am designing a portal application conforming to JSR168 or WSRP. The problem is integrating the content from disparate sources of web content, the web applications written in PERL, Business objects , XSL etc. It would be great if some one who has developed similar stuff to help me out. cheers, Abhinav Mathur

23. Portal app or web app?    coderanch.com

On Weblogic Portal Server, If you are going for weblogic controls (jcs or jcx) as your model components, then you need portal web application. However if from jpf if call is made to user created entity beans as a model, then u don't need portal web application. You need just web application.

24. Open source Portals, options available and performances    coderanch.com

Hi In case that you find any bug in exo portal , you may report those bug to exo team. portal 1.2 is enough stable and you can use it for your project in case that you select to use EXO , by the way i think you can check StringBeans portal too .

25. How Portal stores user data using PortletData?    coderanch.com

Hi I have one questions about how Portal stores user data without using JDBC code. In IBM API there is a object PortletData and in JSR-168 there is a object PortletPreferences and both of these objects are used to persist user preferences. In most of the portal documentation it is mentioned that Portal doesn't require JDBC code for this persistance. I ...

26. How to get full administrator access on Portal?    coderanch.com

Hello All, I have installed RAD6.0 on my machine which comes with Portal test environment. I am able to create portal project and all. Problem is when I go on administration screen, I am not able to see all portlets. I am not sure how to start the server externally to get the complete administration right, so that I can deploy, ...

27. design decision for portal    coderanch.com

28. Getting current portal project path in RAD    coderanch.com

When you say properties file, it appears you have some kind of configuration file. Could you elaborate on what kind of configuration file it is? If you want to read the file, you can put it at some location on the server and store the path to the file as portlet preference (not a very good solution though). I faced this ...

30. Please help me to understand Portals and Portlets    coderanch.com

I thank you for your suggestion, it's just that I'm trying to fully understand the basics of how everything goes together, not just create portlets and portals (which I'm trying to learn as well). -Sixfrido Mendez "May the wind be always at your back, and your glass never be empty" [ August 25, 2006: Message edited by: Sixfrido Mendez ]

31. show/hide portlets in portal    coderanch.com

how to show/hide(personalise) portlets in portal page? In my portal page there are two portlets.Initially when portal page loads only portlet should appear. when i click some button in first portlet , the second portlet should show up in the portal page? Please clarify !! [ September 01, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

33. RAD and Portal Test Envoirmnemnt -Unable to Run a simple Portlet    coderanch.com

Hello I am trying my hand at writing Portlets using the RAD and Portal Test Envoirnment.I am following the instructions given on the RedBook.But Unfortunately I am unable to run a very simple portlet on the Portal Test envoirnment.I am encountering a error when I am trying to run it ...This is the message(on the portal screen) I get when I ...

34. What makes a website - a portal?    coderanch.com

Hi, Gartner Group refers to "portal" as the "most abused term in IT." I was wondering what could be done (extra work) on a simple wesbite to make it (convert it) a portal? In other words, both non-portal and portal wesbite runs within browser over http(s). Suppose, a non-IT person visits a website; Now how this person will decide whether, I ...

36. logout requirement in portals    coderanch.com

Hi, We have a requirement in our portal (using uPortal) where in user SSO into an external application and the application opens up in a new popup window.. now when user clicks logout from the external app the browser shld close automatically.. We are using uPortal for the portal and for SSO purpose we use some identity management tool (from Jamcracker).. ...

37. Portal presentations    coderanch.com

38. Getting certified in Portal Technologies    coderanch.com

Hi Ranchers, I have some exp. on Sun One Portal Server . I was thinking of getting certified in Portal Technolgoies . I came across WebSphere Portal Certification. My main question is should i take this certification considering that my exp. is in Sun One Portal Server ? Thanks in advance for your replies..

39. generic portal question    coderanch.com

I just start to look at portal. Have 2 questions that puzzles me. 1. portal --> book --> page --> portlet If a portlet has a form and be submitted, will the whole page refresh or just that portlet window? or it varies among vendor's implementation? 2. if there are multiple web apps deployed in a server (maybe cluster), or different ...

40. run portal app in WPTE..    coderanch.com

The WebSphere Portal Test environment is a great place to run and test portlets, but it is finiky. SOmetimes if the test environment has hot method replace enabled, it will fail. You might want to disable this. Also, make sure you are pointing to the right server in the Windows-Properties section of the server configuration. It's been a while since I ...

41. Virtual Portal Admin    coderanch.com

42. portal 5.1 adding Resource Permissions at OU level    coderanch.com

we got ldap with CN=usersgroup OU=Accounts,OU=Groups usersgroup having mapping to all users i.e usersgroup is member of all users. i am able assign permission at usersgroup.by making search by: cn, search name: usersgroup its listing usersgroup. if i need to assign permission to OU=Accounts and CN= contains list of all users how to do it ? help appreciated . thanks in ...

43. Portal vs Website    coderanch.com

44. iBolt Portal    coderanch.com

45. Portal Deployed;but cant see it.    coderanch.com

Hi All, I have installed jetspeed and developed a sample portal per studyguides.scja.com site. I could successfully develop and deploy the war file but i am not able to search and add it and see it working. I didnt see any errors on the console. can any one point me, what might be the reason? Thanks in Advance,

46. difference between Portals and Portlets    coderanch.com

47. Bea Portal Framework    coderanch.com

48. SAP Netweaver portal as career    coderanch.com

49. Why use a Portal?    coderanch.com

Portals typically provide common functionality required by enterprise applications - JAAS Authentication (Security), Single Sign-On (typically via signed cookie), User Management and Role/Group based content and Themes to provide common look and feel. Some portals go further by providing Content Management and Collaboration capabilities, enabling users to share documents, use instant messaging etc. The downside is that all this functionality comes ...

50. to find open source portal    coderanch.com

51. Migrating Web-App from Portal 5.0 to Protal 6.0    coderanch.com

Hi All, I am facing problems running a Web App that runs fine with WebSphere Portal V5.1 Server, but giving problems with WebSphere Portal V6.0 Server. Can anyone please guide me out of this? Its really urgent and nobody in my team knows how to migrate an application from Portal 5.0 to Portal 6.0.

52. portals and Feeds - Difference    coderanch.com

Hi, I feel both portal and Feeds serve similar needs. I would like to know, as of why there was a need for Portal when there are things like feeds, personalisation etc available. Any advantages of portal over RSS feeds, Is it just to provide a kind of standard to do everything(personalisation, single signon, aggregation etc.). Or any significant benifit using ...

53. getting started with Portals    coderanch.com

54. Installation of Portal tools on RAD 6.0    coderanch.com

55. the right portal framework    coderanch.com

Ranchers, I did some interesting R & D for using appropriate framework while using portal technology and compile the thoughs of people form various sites. I am putting all together for further disucssion. Does Struts Satisfy Needs? Struts1.x Pros: Struts have been around for a few years and have the edge on maturity. And since it here from many years there ...

56. voice portal & VXML    coderanch.com

57. Beginner in IBM Portal    coderanch.com

hi i am having 3+yrs of experience in java/j2ee but i am a fresher for ibm portal.i need help to start with portals. can anyone please help me out with the tutorial or material to start with.i would like to know how can i go ahead as a starter. your suggestions and efforts will be appreciated. waiting for your reply regards ...

58. Learning portlets and portals    coderanch.com

by visiting portlets faq page i could see many number of implementations provided by different vendors. if one wants to learn basic concepts, the things for developing portlets irrespective of any implementation what should he/she learn? if one wants to develop portlets and portals what are the basic things to be learnt. As far i know some tools even provide drag ...

59. Link/include another portal from my portal    coderanch.com

Hi, I am new to portal development. I am working on a proof of concept of a portal. This portal would include an existing portal already developed, how would my portal/portlet include that portal page? I wonder if we I could do redirect in my portlet, and I am worrying about the relative links/images on that portal page. Thanks a lot ...

60. Portal functionalities on Java Web Application    coderanch.com

Hi, We have a website succesfully running in production. We want the ability to have some portal-like functionality in that. That is, we want to convert just the home page of the website into portal like page, like changing of the heading and a few images. In a Java based web application we can do by changing the images or files ...

61. New on portal    coderanch.com

Who said you needed an IDE? Here's a tutorial that shows you how to develop a portlet with nothing more than the JDK: Developing Portlets with the JDK and Notepad as the IDE If you can do it with notepad, then you can use any IDE you want! Why not eclipse? Or NetBeans. You just need the portal libraries, a compiler, ...

62. PortletEntity in web sphere portal 6    coderanch.com

63. Why Portal?    coderanch.com

The key is that a portal solves many key problems that large, loosely integrated content providers face. Portal builds upon J2EE, so theoretically, you could do everything a portal does in your own, custom built applications. But who's got the time? It's like Struts of JSF - you could do all that stuff on your own, but why bother when someone ...

64. Portal Access Problem    coderanch.com

The following error occurs in console when access the following jsp page in IBM portal server ver 6.0.2.15. Any idea to solve the issue? [4/16/08 11:07:02:370 EDT] 00000051 PortletRender E com.ibm.wps.engine.tags.PortletRenderTag doStartTag EJPEJ0066E: The portlet could not be rendered. javax.portlet.PortletException: javax.servlet.UnavailableException: SRVE0201E: Servlet [adminportlet.ScreeningAdminPortlet]: not a servlet class at com.ibm.wps.pe.pc.legacy.PortletContainerImpl.callPortletMethod(PortletContainerImpl.java:1279) at com.ibm.wps.pe.pc.legacy.PortletContainerImpl.renderPortlet(PortletContainerImpl.java:457) at com.ibm.wps.pe.pc.PortletContainerImpl.doRenderPortlet(PortletContainerImpl.java:595) at com.ibm.wps.pe.ext.render.AbstractRenderManager.performService(AbstractRenderManager.java:247) at com.ibm.wps.pe.pc.PortletContainerImpl.renderPortlet(PortletContainerImpl.java:115) at com.ibm.wps.engine.tags.PortletRenderTag.doStartTag(PortletRenderTag.java:161) at ...

65. Future of portal and portlet    coderanch.com

67. New to Portals    coderanch.com

I've actually got a website full of free portlet tutorials. It includes code samples and video tutorials. I use rational application developer in the tutorials, but the portlets are JSR168 compliant, so the code and the process will work for any JSR-168 compliant server. Portlet examples and JSR168 tutorials For full disclosure, the site is designed to help promote my book ...

68. Difference between Portal and Portlets    coderanch.com

A portal page is made of a set of portlets. For example, the portal page such as Welcome contains portlets such as Navigation, Language, and so on And the portlet Language has icons (such as Look and Feel, Configuration, Minimize, Maximize, and Remove), title icon and title (such as Language), and a window which may contain contents (such as a set ...

69. OpenSource Java Portal & Portlet Resources?    coderanch.com

Liferay Portal would be good choice (support JSR-168 spec. & JSR 286 spec.) Liferay Portal is the world's leading open source enterprise portal solution using the latest in Java and Web 2.0 technologies. * Built in Content Management System (CMS) & Collaboration Suite * Out-of-the-box usablilitychoose from over 60 portlets * Out-of-the-box development tools * Out-of-the-box localization to 22 languages! * ...

70. Doubt on Portal Technology.    coderanch.com

Hi guys... I a relatively new to portal technology and is working on weblogic portal technology 10.2 version. My doubt is whether the portlets created using the weblogic portal technology compatable with the JSR [168 i guess] portlets standards? Which open source portal technology is the easiest to learn and more widlely used in the industry? I found the weblogic portals ...

71. Migrating to Portals & Portlets    coderanch.com

72. idea about portals    coderanch.com

73. Portal integration    coderanch.com

Hi All , I have a web application which i need to integrate with portal. My application uses weblogic server , when i load the dlls for the first time it is working fine. But if i run the application again it is giving exception as " Native Library C:\WINDOWS\system32\sapssoext.dll already loaded in another classloader ". Can anyone help me regarding ...

74. Getting started with Portals...    coderanch.com

I'm realizing that an application I'm working on could be a good fit for implementation as a portal. I've looked at a few of the JSR-168 implementations and I'm starting to see how the pieces fit together. However I had a few questions that I haven't been able to get a handle on from the documentation the various systems (spent the ...

75. Persistence, Domain Models, and Portals...    coderanch.com

I'm trying to understand some of the basics of portal development. (Please see my other thread for some more basic concerns). Now I've gotten JBoss Portal installed and runable. I've read over the Portlet Tutorial with Struts 2. And while I can understand all the pieces, I'm not sure I like some of the implications. Here is the tutorial:http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/struts-2-portlet-tutorial.html They are ...

76. Portal development    coderanch.com

Hi Ranchers, I'm planning to develop a portal on a linux platform using mySQL as DB. Now my major concern is which portal server best goes with the above combination? What technology and frameworks i can choose? We are expecting 100K concurrent users initially. Any help/suggestion for the above is highly appreciated. Thank you.

77. OracleAS Portal - Java portlet - upload/download    coderanch.com

I'm using OracleAS Portal 10.1.2.0.2 and the oracle portal development kit to develop the portlets. I'm using this to develop a struts based portlet. 1. The parallel page engine in the Portal doesnt seem to support multipart requests which prevents file uploads. 2. The PDK doesnt not supports content type text/* only. Due to this I'm unable to dynamically generate a ...

78. Portal Application    coderanch.com

Hi All, I am new to portal, i am doing one portal application in that I have three modules each module contain 4 or 5 pages. my question is how to create portles and how to create pages in portlet, i heard in some where first i need to deploy my application after that i can add pages to my portlet ...

79. Valid use case for portal / portlets ?    coderanch.com

Hi, I have an existing webapp, which is essentially a frontend to a cms application. We have requests from integrators to visually customize the webapp and the ability to integrate their own components into this webapp. To achieve these integration scenarios we are evaluating the portal based approach vis a vis rolling out our own custom solution for integration that could ...

80. Local Debugging For RAD 7/7.5 and Wepsphere Portal 6.1    coderanch.com

Hi, I am developing JSF portlets for Websphere portal 6.1 in RAD 7 and 7.5 . I am new to this portal env . I wanted to know whether we can create a local websphere portal server in the workspace and debug the code as in other WAS servers . If not what is the best way to debug/test the jsp,jsf ...

81. Portal Development IDE    coderanch.com

83. portal code    coderanch.com

84. What is a portal / portlet?    coderanch.com

85. portal Information    coderanch.com

86. What is Portal?    coderanch.com

Hi, Portal is a web based application that commonly provide personalization, single sign on, content aggregation from different sources and hosts the presentation layer of Information Systems.Aggregation is nothing but integrating content from defferent sources with in web page.portal page may have different portlets. Portlet is nothing but a web based component managed by portlet container. Regards, Reshma

87. Help Needed for Developping portals    coderanch.com

Do you mean you want to create a website? Thats a pretty broad question. You will need to register a domain name. Depending on what sort of site you want (simple back end db, e-commerce etc) and what technologies you will employ, you will need to rent (or buy) one (or more) of many different types of webserver to host it. ...

88. difference between Portal and ERP ?    coderanch.com

89. Portal 6.1 Test Environmet with RAD 7.5 ?    coderanch.com

hi, I have install WebSphere Portal V6.1 and then install RAD 7.5 but I just don't see an option to install Portal Tools in the Installation Manager. After installation when I click on New Project, there is no option in the wizard to create a new WebSphere Portal 6.1 project. Also, in the Servers view, I can't define a new WebSphere ...

90. Technology for portal development    coderanch.com

Hi, Can anyone please let me know.. in the website development.. if a site has to display large amt data on search from its own DB or site.. for example : wikipedia.. on search for saycancer, it displays lots of content.. In these kind of requirements wat technology is used? Can I save that large content in DB (mysql)? or I ...

91. How to pass a paramter from an external j2ee app to Portal ?    coderanch.com

Hi all, I have a scenario where i have a link say My Account on a jsp in an External J2EE app, and on click of that link i want to pass a parameter to portal. My environment is :- IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0, JSR 168 Portles and Windows OS Here I am again explaining my issue in detail:- Problem Scenario:- ...

92. Migration of Portal from 5.1 to 6.1 issues    coderanch.com

I'm Migrating my application built on Portal(JSR-168) 5.1 and WAS 5.1 environment to Portal and WAS 6.1 environment on RA 7.5. In some of the modules I'm facing issues when I try to pass data from JSP page to Action class setting the value on session object. In one of the Module: The records are visible from database,however , the application ...

95. simple questions about skinning a portal.    coderanch.com

I have a JSR 168 compliant portal application that we want to add skin functionality. Currently all the CSS and images are on the portlet consumer. I have to make the producers availble to external applictions from the company. We do not want to supply some huge directory of CSS files and images to all the external consumers. We would like ...

96. Anyone using SunONE portal ?    coderanch.com

97. Portal Startup    coderanch.com

99. Before suggesting a project in portal implementation what kind of things should take care?    coderanch.com

"Portals" is a pretty broad topic. I agree with Cameron that you might want to separate the business issues about what needs to be done (interactive dashboard, employee self-service) from the technical issues of how to do it (JSR268 portal, Struts, Mashup, Ajax). If you are trying to sell this to management, focus on the business benefits you want to achieve: ...

100. Lifray Portal Tests    coderanch.com