It seems the jetspeed-2 stuff, while having many good things such as tag libs etc, half-assed deployment etc, is not even close to being ready to run for anything other than bleeding edge development.
After buggering around for three hours trying to build it under Tomcat 4 :


Caused by: org.apache.jetspeed.exception.JetspeedException: Jetspeed Initialization exception!
at org.apache.jetspeed.engine.AbstractEngine.init(AbstractEngine.java:154)
at org.apache.jetspeed.Jetspeed.createEngine(Jetspeed.java:64)
... 46 more
Caused by: java.lang.VerifyError: Cannot inherit from final class
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1679)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:968)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1409)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1289)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.createContentDispatcher(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.<init>(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:248)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.<init>(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:245)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)



It got a bit better using Tomcat 5, but still pretty badly broken :
CNF: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.jetspeed.portlets.layout.MultiColumnPortlet:org.apache.jetspeed.portle
ts.layout.MultiColumnPortlet
Which renders the entire interface unusable.
I assume someone has screwed around with cvs commits which haven't been fully verified, but since no binary distribs for jetspeed-2 are provided, we have no choice but to use the cvs copy.


Think I'd better have a look around at some of the other portal offerings to see if I'm not being to hasty in choosing jetspeed.
Anyone have any good experience with other portals who have minimum functionalities such as being able to package a portlet in a war file, deploy/undeploy them?



cheers wh


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