I thought I'd have some fun looking at how to do the geronimo
security integration, so I started out by trying to build jetspeed
and get it running on something. Here are a few comments that might
help out other new users.
The documentation uniformly claims that hslqldb is the default db,
but the build appears to use derby. This makes me distrust
everything the documentation says.
The build forces me to set a bunch of parameters relating to where
tomcat is, but AFAICT they are never used in the main build. After I
set them and run maven allBuild, my tomcat install is unchanged. I'm
not sure why someone who wants to run jetspeed on say jetty should be
forced to set a lot of parameters that are tomcat specific. Perhaps
the only checks for these parameters being set could be when the part
of the plugin that uses them is executed?
The maven plugin seems to require quite a few dependencies that are
not listed as maven dependencies. The plugin expects them to be in
~/.maven/repository/org.apache.portals.bridges/wars
but on cvs.apache.org they are in
http://cvs.apache.org/repository/org.apache.portals.bridges/
which definitely seems like a mistake to me.
I also wonder why the maven plugin has so many portlet apps to deploy
hardcoded into it. This seems contrary to the purpose of a plugin to
me. Another design choice might be to have a plugin goal to iterate
through the dependencies in the project.xml and deploy specially
marked dependencies. Then you could have a couple of example
projects using the plugin that deployed the full or min set of
portlet apps. Although I'm not yet familiar with what the plugin is
supposed to do I think this might provide a useful prototype for
people to build other portals off of.
Many thanks,
david jencks
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