Deployed portlets do not show up in Jetspeed

[George Randall]

I'm trying to use Jetspeed as a development platform for portlets that would eventually be used in WebSphere. I know it's not the best approach but Jetspeed is light on resources so can be run locally.

Basically deploying to both portals works fine, but the portlets do not show up in the portlet list of Jetspeed.

Here's the console output after placing the war files in C:\Apache\Jetspeed2\webapps\jetspeed\WEB-INF\deploy:

Found WEB-INF/portlet.xml
Found web.xml
Attempting to add portlet.tld to war...
Adding portlet.tld to war...
Attempting to add portlet_2_0.tld to war...
Adding portlet_2_0.tld to war...
Creating war C:\Apache\Jetspeed2\webapps\ImageDisplay.war ...
War C:\Apache\Jetspeed2\webapps\ImageDisplay.war created
22/01/2010 1:45:20 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive ImageDisplay.war
JetspeedContainerServlet: starting initialization of Portlet Application at: ImageDisplay
JetspeedContainerServlet: initialization done for Portlet Application at: ImageDisplay

Found web.xml
Found WEB-INF/portlet.xml
Attempting to add portlet.tld to war...
Adding portlet.tld to war...
Attempting to add portlet_2_0.tld to war...
Adding portlet_2_0.tld to war...
Creating war C:\Apache\Jetspeed2\webapps\CompaniesAndPeoplePortlet.war ...
War C:\Apache\Jetspeed2\webapps\CompaniesAndPeoplePortlet.war created
22/01/2010 2:36:12 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig checkResources
INFO: Undeploying context [/CompaniesAndPeoplePortlet]
22/01/2010 2:36:13 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive CompaniesAndPeoplePortlet.war
JetspeedContainerServlet: starting initialization of Portlet Application at: CompaniesAndPeoplePortlet
JetspeedContainerServlet: initialization done for Portlet Application at: CompaniesAndPeoplePortlet

Note that i tried both the CompaniesAndPeoplePortlet (essentially a HelloWorld portlet) and ImageDisplayPortlet povided by Cameron McKenzie in a similar thread:
http://www.coderanch.com/t/203654/Portals-Portlets/java/Portal-Deployed-but-cant-see

I noticed that Cameron's output did not end with the initialization done message, but also included the following lines (for yet another MyAjax portlet) which seems to be exactly what i'm missing here:

   INFO: Remove all registry entries defined for portlet application MyAjaxPortlet  
    
   INFO: Loading portlet.xml....MyAjaxPortlet  
   INFO: No extended metadata found.  
   INFO: Loading web.xml....MyAjaxPortlet  
   INFO: Registered the portlet application MyAjaxPortlet  
   INFO: Registered the portlet application in the search engine... MyAjaxPortlet  

I've never seen anyone mention the registry entries in the tutorials. As I said deploying ImageDisplayPortlet fails about the same way so to me it looks like the problem with Jetspeed configuration.

Please share your ideas,
George

[Brad Gardner]

What version of jetspeed are you using? Also, could you post your web.xml and portlet.xml? Lastly, if you look in your webapps folder, there should be a deployed instance of your portlet, does it have a generated jetspeed-portlet.xml?

[George Randall]

Brad Gardner wrote:What version of jetspeed are you using? Also, could you post your web.xml and portlet.xml? Lastly, if you look in your webapps folder, there should be a deployed instance of your portlet, does it have a generated jetspeed-portlet.xml?

It's jetspeed 2.2.0. The file jetspeed-potlet.xml is NOT generated. I also noticed there's a folder deploy\local which has the following README.txt

This is the default auto deployment folder where you can put portlet application
war files to be automatically deployed as local portlet application by Jetspeed
without a "jetspeed-" prefix in the name as is required for local portlet application
when deployed in the "normal" auto deployment folder (by default this parent deploy folder).

Well, I see no activity in the terminal if I drop a war file here. And the behavior is the same as before if I drop into deploy folder whether or not the file name or <portlet-name> is prefixed with jetspeed-.

Once again the very same archive works just fine under websphere. Thanks!

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
	<display-name>Companies and People</display-name>
	<description>Portlet interacting with Lotus Notes Database</description>
</web-app>

portlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<portlet-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_2_0.xsd" version="2.0" 
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_2_0.xsd 
                                 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_2_0.xsd">
   <portlet>
      <portlet-name>Companies and People Portlet Name</portlet-name>
      <display-name>Companies and People Portlet</display-name>
      <display-name xml:lang="en">Companies and People Portlet</display-name>
      <portlet-class>com.ibm.wps.portlets.CnPMain</portlet-class>
      <supports>
         <mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
         <portlet-mode>view</portlet-mode>
      </supports>
      <supported-locale>en</supported-locale>
      <portlet-info>
         <title>Companies and People</title>
      </portlet-info>
   </portlet>
</portlet-app>

[Tim McGuire]

there may be some more information in jetspeed-deployment.log

(C:\Apache\jetspeed-2.2.0\logs )