Hi all I'm wondering what's necessary to create a Portal of my own with pluto-1.1. I've gone trough the pluto-portal.war and pluto-testsuite.war and my impression is this:
Some libraries must be in TOMCAT/shared/lib (like portlet-api, pluto-descriptor and a few others). What's the reason for this? Generally, I'd rather deploy all libs as part of the webapp war. Also, I'm wondering about the files being copied to TOMCAT/conf/Catalina/localhost - they're not that important since tomcat should pick up the war files by himself, shouldn't he? The files pluto-portal-driver*.xml work somewhat like the web.xml. They mark a webapp as portal and if they are present, the portal-driver picks up the webapp (probably after it's been deployed by tomcat) and initializes the portal. As it seems to me, at the moment, the portlet.xml is a marker file too and is only relevant to the portlet container. I assume, tomcat loads and initializes the webapp (servlets) and then calls the portlet container to initialize the portlets. How does tomcat know about the portlet container? I home someone can clear this up so I get a better understanding of the pluto architecture. Thanks Patrick
