At 14:23 02/08/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Our portal project MUST roll out in November. In some ways that seems like
>time but it took me a sometime learn Jetspeed, and I have looked at the new
>version, buttheir is no documentation whatso ever. I dont understand Home.vm
>cause it has only 2 lines of code, I dont know how to make my other pages
>that would be very similiar to Home.vm. At least I knew how to in this
>current version and hoe to make links to them. I dont understand the
>$screen_placeholder and where it is coming from besides the velocity jar
>file, and...
>
>It's been a fustrating ride but I dont know if I could do it over again to
>learn the current version even though their are some similarities.
>
>Can vm pages connect to databases? There are just too many questions out
>there for me.
Anthony,
I think you should not mix two different concepts:
the one is velocity, which is tool to dynamically generate text. You are
using templates (.vm files) that are processed by velocity to produce some
output (in your case HTML). You can pass context data to these pages. If
you want to "connect your .vm files to the db", you must: write some code
connecting to the db, have this code put some objects with the query data
in the velocity Context, and have a .vm file use this objects in your template.
another concept is jetspeed: jetspeed is a portal framework, based upon a
markup language: psml: with psml, you define which portlets shows up on
which page, with which layout and properties.
Some portlets are static, some others are dynamic. The dynamic ones may use
a template language, like jsp or velocity, or servlets, etc.
If you want good configuration info, I suggest you read the tutorial (
check previous postings in the mailing list)
If I can be of any help...
Stan.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:59 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: WebPagePortlet
>
>
>Anthony,
>I have not idea if the WebPagePortlet from the CVS will work in 1.3a1.
>If it does great, but do not expect a lot of support to make it work.
>As to why you do not want to upgrade, why? In order to user the new
>functionally, you will have to upgrade. Why not start now?
>
>If you are working with a production environment, then I understand not
>upgrading that environment to a something that is not released. But for
>development and testing?
>
>Paul Spencer
>
>Anthony Smith wrote:
> >
> > I added the WebPagePortlet class myself, but I dont want to use the
>current
> > version, because of all of the changes like .vm and such. To do what I
>want
> > in the new version, I would need to download velocity as well. But with
> > 1.3a1 I dont need velocity.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jbl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 11:38 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: WebPagePortlet
> >
> > Get the latest from the CVS repository.
> >
> > The release you mentioned does not have a WebPagePortlet
> >
> > JBL :)
> >
> > Anthony Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > I am using Jetspeed-1.3a1
> > >
> > > I added entries in my .jcfg confg file for WebPagePortlet & JspPortlet.
> > The
> > > JspPortlet works fine, and when I make a change to the JSP page
> > (Hello.jsp)
> > > it shows up when I hit refresh.
> > >
> > > For HTML (FileServer) it does not. I even tried copying the class file
> > over
> > > to my enviorment from the lastest release. But it works in the current
> > > version of the release.
> > >
> > > The Webpage portlet says this when Java starts up: JavaWeb has set its
> > > paretn to an entry that does nto exist within the registry.
> > >
> > > Here's the entry:
> > > <portlet-entry name="WebPagePortlet" hidden="false" type="abstract"
> > > application="false">
> > >
> > >
><classname>org.apache.jetspeed.portal.portlets.WebPagePortlet</classname>
> > > <media-type ref="html"/>
> > > </portlet-entry>
> > > ***********************
> > >
> > > If I take out this line I get no error but the JavaWeb will not show:
> > > <media-type ref="html"/>
> > >
> > > However it wil with a local URL.
> > >
> > > I need help!
> > >
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