Hi David:
David E Jones wrote:
Bring confusion in the future? That's like saying you shouldn't use the term
object-relational mapping unless you're talking about JPA.
I beg to differ. "Portlets" and "Portals" have clear definitions
recognized in the Java community: JSR 168/268. Regardless of when these
terms were coined, they now have a brand and the OFBiz community's use
of them interchangeably with OFBiz features/functions is confusing at
best and misleading at worst.
Just like object-relational mapping is a general term with many variations and
implementations, and supporting the JPA interfaces is simply a feature of some
of those implementations, portal and portlet are also general terms with many
variations and implementations, and only some of them support the JSR 168
specification.
Should we then say that portal/portlet software not written in Java should not
use those terms?
If so, which terms should those unfortunate souls use to describe their creations?
-David
On Dec 31, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
I agree with Ruth, this will (and has already) certainly bring some confusion
in future.
Jacques
From: "Ruth Hoffman" <rhoff...@aesolves.com>
Hi David:
IMO the term "portlet" should only be applied to JSR 168/268 compliant code.
Regards,
Ruth
David E Jones wrote:
MyPortal still needs a lot of work.
It should really be just the shell of the portal and include only a very few
portlets that are part of the framework.
Higher level components, including applications components, can have their own
portlets that appear in MyPortal by having data in seed/etc data files, and
that data will tell MyPortal about these portlets.
OOTB the MyPortal stuff shouldn't know anything about any portlets (other than
a few basic framework ones). At runtime MyPortal will look for information
about other portlets, but that information should come only from the higher
level components where the portlets themselves live.
-David
On Dec 31, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Bruno Busco wrote:
That's true, it would be still a dependence.
Anyway, in this case the MyPortal is considered to be dependent from
all other components (because it "mounts" portlets defined by all
other components in the default portalPages).
It should be possible to use the MyPortal component even if one of the
other components is not used.
I think a different logic is needed here.
-Bruno
2009/12/31 David E Jones <d...@me.com>:
That still represents a dependency on the other component.
Lower level components should not even have anything that represents an
awareness of a higher level component.
The solution, and the only solution, is to move the data to the higher level
components. It's that simple.
-David
On Dec 30, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Bruno Busco wrote:
Hi,
the MyPortal component has many seed data that create a dependence
from many other components.
This is done because the seed data create the default MyPortal
portalPages that include several portlets from all other components.
For example:
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE"
portalPortletId="SystemInfoNotes" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00001" sequenceNum="0"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE"
portalPortletId="SystemInfoStatus" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00001" sequenceNum="1"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE"
portalPortletId="Calendar" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00001"
sequenceNum="2"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE0"
portalPortletId="INCOM_CUST_REQUESTS" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00001" sequenceNum="0"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE0"
portalPortletId="MyCommunications" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00001" sequenceNum="1"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="party" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00001"
sequenceNum="0"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="partyRelContacts" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00001" sequenceNum="1"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="partyRelAccounts" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00001" sequenceNum="2"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="contact" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00001"
sequenceNum="3"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="LoyaltyPoints" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00001" sequenceNum="4"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="PaymentMethods" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00001" sequenceNum="5"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="AvsSettings" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00001"
sequenceNum="6"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="UserLogin" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00002"
sequenceNum="1"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="Attributes" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00002"
sequenceNum="2"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="Visits" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00002"
sequenceNum="3"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="Content" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00002"
sequenceNum="4"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="ShipperAccount" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00002" sequenceNum="5"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="Notes" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00002"
sequenceNum="6"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE1"
portalPortletId="MYTASKSPARTY" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00002" sequenceNum="7"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE2"
portalPortletId="MyCommunications" portletSeqId="00001"
columnSeqId="00001" sequenceNum="0"/>
<PortletAttribute portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE2"
portalPortletId="MyCommunications" portletSeqId="00001"
attrName="communicationPartyId" attrValue="Company"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE4"
portalPortletId="mytimesheet" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00001"
sequenceNum="0"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE5"
portalPortletId="mytasks" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00001"
sequenceNum="0"/>
How can we have a conditional seed data loading that would load only
seed data for the portlets really available in the system?
I mean, could we have something like this:
<if-component-loaded name="Workeffort">
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE4"
portalPortletId="mytimesheet" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00001"
sequenceNum="0"/>
<PortalPagePortlet portalPageId="MYPORTAL_EMPLOYEE5"
portalPortletId="mytasks" portletSeqId="00001" columnSeqId="00001"
sequenceNum="0"/>
</if-component-loaded>
or is there any other tecnique to do this?
Many thanks,
Bruno
