Portal/Portlet Plugins For Eclipse Helios

[Somnath Mallick]

Hi Everyone,

Posting after a long time... Well i have the Eclipse Helios package on my PC and I would like to know that are there any plug-ins available for the Portal/Portlet development? I have to do some JSR 168/286 development in GateIn Portal. But am not able to find a suitable plug-in. Please help.

[Peter Johnson]

I know that JBoss Tools has a portal plugin, that might work for you.

[Somnath Mallick]

Yes. I tried that. But that only gives the option of creating JAVA Portlets. Not the whole Java Portlet Project. I am going crazy about this

Cant find a decent plugin to create portlet projects. I have tried creating a dynamic web project and creating a porlet inside it. But it somehow doesn't work!!

[Peter Johnson]

I have tried creating a dynamic web project and creating a porlet inside it. But it somehow doesn't work!!

That's why I did. Why doesn't it work for you?

[Somnath Mallick]

Thanks for the reply. I am trying to create and deploy a portlet in GateIn (downloaded the GateIn 3.1 with JBoss package). I am not quite sure on the correct packing. Its justa simple Hello World Portlet.
Here's my portlet code:

package com.test;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import javax.portlet.GenericPortlet;
import javax.portlet.PortletConfig;
import javax.portlet.PortletException;
import javax.portlet.RenderRequest;
import javax.portlet.RenderResponse;

public class HelloWorldPortlet extends GenericPortlet
{
   
  public void init(PortletConfig pConfig) throws PortletException
  {
    super.init(pConfig);
  }

  public void doView(RenderRequest pRequest, RenderResponse pResponse)
    throws PortletException, IOException
  {
    
    pResponse.setContentType("text/html");
    PrintWriter printWriter = pResponse.getWriter();
    
    printWriter.println("Hello, World");

    
    
  }  
}

portlet.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<portlet-app version="1.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd">
  <portlet>
    <description xml:lang="EN">My First Hello World Portlet</description>
    <portlet-name>HelloWorld</portlet-name>
    <display-name xml:lang="EN">Hello World</display-name>
    <portlet-class>com.test.HelloWorldPortlet</portlet-class>

    <expiration-cache>-1</expiration-cache>

    <supports>
      <mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
      <portlet-mode>view</portlet-mode>
    </supports>

    <supported-locale>en</supported-locale>

    <portlet-info>
      <title>Hello World</title>
      <short-title>Hello</short-title>
      <keywords>hello</keywords>
    </portlet-info>
  </portlet>

</portlet-app>

Although i don't think its necessary posting the web.xml file as well.
web.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
  <display-name>TempTry</display-name>
</web-app>

[Suhas Narasimhan]

Hi Somnath,

I am currently facing the same problem, could you please tell me if you were able to fix the issue. if yes, could you please share the sample application.

Thanks in advance.

Suhas

[Somnath Mallick]

I shifted to Eclipse Galileo and got the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench plugin installed. You can try it out on you Helios, it may work.