AW: build question---please help
We do it that way#: -take the jetspeed.war -explode it to tomcat -replace all modified stuff with ours (we copy it in via ant tasks) -that works, and you can easily replace the .war by a newer one Hope that helps. Danny -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Archana Turaga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2004 01:20 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: build question---please help Hi, I have my own portal application with it's own library files and jsp files. To understand jetspeed i just built the tutorial and hacked that structure to include my portal specific information. Now i want to create a build.xml that will work with ant to create my own portal war. I cannot follow the tutorial build.xml because it goes in three steps there i) Deploy(this will simply replicate the jetspeed.war) ii)Start tomcat ..This will explode the war into a directory structure. iii) Then hot deploy so that it copies all the tutorial specific information to exploded structure under tomcat. Also the tutorial does not have it's own library files. I have my own libraries that i want to use. Questions: 1) Do i have to then look at jetspeed's(the jetspeed source) build file to come up with my build.xml? 2) Instead of exploding the jetspeed jar to \web-inf\classes can i just include this like a library jar in the web-inf\lib? 3) If step 2 is valid then can i only take all the files that are missing in the jar file from the jetspeed directory and deploy them into the file structure of my custom portal? for e.g. the .properties files are not present in the jar file. Can i just copy this property files from jetspeed directory into the my own portal's space ,merge the properties and then build my own war file? 4) What are the recommended methods of source maintainence of custom portals? Does the jetspeed source also need to be maintained or the binaries and property files are enough? Please help me. I have been trying to figure out the best way to formalise the steps of source maintainence. Therefore all the developers of the portlets can use this structure to check-in and check-out source. Thanks in advance for your time and patience, Archana - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: No real way to deploy portlets?
Jetspeed 2 supports hot deploy. You just drop a war file into the deployment directory and to portlet is deployed. Also, deleting the war while the container is in operation will automatically undeploy that portlet application. This capability is still in the early stages of development and there appears to be some issues when undeploying then redpolying the web application into Tomcat. When this is done, tomcat returns a null RequestDispatcher within the redeployed portlet applications. Regards, ** | Scott T Weaver | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Apache Jetspeed Portal Project | | Apache Pluto Portlet Container | ** -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:13 AM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: No real way to deploy portlets? Sorry if this question is missing something huge. I'm investigating several portal frameworks, and with Jetspeed, I cannot find any production orientated way to deploy portlets.. By this I mean excluding having to restart Tomcat, which is not really an option in any normal operating environment. I've seen some vague references in mailing lists to hot class loading, so I'm assuming this is a close as I'll get? Specifically is there any support, planned or existing, for deploying portlets as war, ear or jar files? Many thanks. WH - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different adapters...
Hi,
Could you post your Torque.properties file? I still get the following
error at logon:
org.apache.jetspeed.services.security.UserException: Failed to save user
object
when trying to use the default Hypersonic database with another MySql
database.
Could somebody help me?
Here is my Torque.properties file:
torque.database.default=default
torque.database.default.adapter=hypersonic
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.driver = org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.url =
jdbc:hsqldb:${webappRoot}/WEB-INF/db/jetspeed
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.user = sa
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.password =
torque.dsfactory.default.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataSourceFactory
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
## Our test database
torque.database.mydb.adapter=mysql
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.driver = org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.url = jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/test
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.user = root
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.password = *
torque.dsfactory.mydb.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataSourceFactory
torque.dsfactory.mydb.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.mydb.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.mydb.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
thanks,
Louis-Philippe Brochu
-Original Message-
From: Richard Berger
Subject: RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different adapters...
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:40:00 -0800
Jeremy:
Somehow I missed your post - my apologies in the delayed response. I
had seen those posts and couldn't quite figure out what I was doing
wrong. However, with a pointer from Paul Mansfield the key problem was
that I was missing the pool properties below.
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
Just simple confusion on my part. Now I am using Hypersonic for the
login and have a Database Portlet talking to SQL Server on WebLogic.
Thanks much for your response!
RB
-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:14 PM
To: 'Jetspeed Users List'
Subject: RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different
adapters...
Here a couple or threads regarding this issue. Hope this helps.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09382.ht
ml
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07522.ht
ml
Jeremy Ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Richard Berger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different
adapters...
More information
Here is a snippet from the Torque.properties files that works (with just
one DBMS) and then the equivalent snippet (comments uncommented) that
fails:
WORKS
# Original Hypersonic properties
#torque.database.default=default
#torque.database.default.adapter=hypersonic
#torque.dsfactory.default.connection.driver = org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
#torque.dsfactory.default.connection.url =
jdbc:hsqldb:${webappRoot}/WEB-INF/db/jetspeed
#torque.dsfactory.default.connection.user = sa
#torque.dsfactory.default.connection.password =
#torque.dsfactory.default.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueData
SourceFactory
# SQL Server properties
torque.database.default=default
torque.database.default.adapter=weblogic
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.user = jmetro
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.password = jmetro
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.driver =
weblogic.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.url =
jdbc:bea:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=jmetro
torque.dsfactory.default.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataS
ourceFactory
FAILS
# Original Hypersonic properties
torque.database.default=default
torque.database.default.adapter=hypersonic
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.driver = org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.url =
jdbc:hsqldb:${webappRoot}/WEB-INF/db/jetspeed
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.user = sa
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.password =
torque.dsfactory.default.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataS
ourceFactory
# SQL Server properties
torque.database.default=default
torque.database.jmetro.adapter=weblogic
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.user = jmetro
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.password = jmetro
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.driver =
weblogic.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.url =
jdbc:bea:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=jmetro
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataSo
urceFactory
And when I try to login as turbine/turbine, the error I get is:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
RE: build question---please help
Thanks Richard. I appreciate the input (no you have not sidetracked me..:-). Meanwhile i found something in the jetspeed's build.xml that may help my issue. Well this is considering that none of the jetspeed source needs any change and will work as it is released in the CVS. Any extra classes that are written belong to a custom package structure belonging to the company and these most of the times (till now in my experience) trurn out to be extensions of existing jetspeed classes For e.g. Portlet classes extend JSPPortletAction. Considering above is the case the following can be done (based on the information in the jetspeed's build.xml) 1) Build jetspeed with the option war-template. 2) Explode this war to the app server webapps directory. 3) Copy the jetspeed jar and its dependent jars into the web-inf\lib directory. 4) Copy the custom portals template files to the template directories under the webapps/ 5) Copy the custom portals jars to the web-inf\lib directory. 6) This step is something i'm currently experimenting on. I'm going to try to create my.properties (following the jetspeed property override-howto) and see if i can also embed this. If this happens and my portal works then viola i think i have achieved most of my goal. If all the above steps are followed then i could do the following: 1) I can check-in the combined structure into our source control 2) Everybody else in our group can then check-in the jsps, java files to this structure 3) Write make files(not ant tasks but .gmk files) to build the custom portals jar files and custom portal's war file. Although jetspeed source will still be maintained as a separate entity and ant will be used to build the jar file needed for the custom portal. In future if there are any bug fixes then this source will be modified and the jar will be rebuilt and the custom portal's application war will have to be rebuilt to include this new jar. I hope i'm making some sense. If anybody sees a problem with this approach or tried the war-template approach please please let me know. Any input is appreciated because that will allow me to make a sound decision on the maintainence aspect of the portal. Thanks and i appreciate all the help, Regards, Archana [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/04 11:16AM Not sure if this is quite the answer you were seeking, but I am doing something similar - e.g. incorporating an existing portal application into the Jetspeed framework. Initially, I started by installing the jetspeed .war file and then hacking various configuration files. Then, in order to take the next step of incorporating my Java code, I realized I would need to have the source to Jetspeed and to incorporate my source into that structure (e.g. writing new portlets in the package org.apache.jetspeed.modules.actions.portlets). So, I downloaded the source and created new portlets. To do the build, I used the Jetspeed build.xml file, but I didn't need to make any changes in it. I put some additional .jar files in the appropriate lib directory and the ant tasks copy them to web-inf. Then to deploy my Jetspeed portal (with my portlets), I created a .war file and then exploded it into the deployment directory (I used slightly different locations for Jboss and WebLogic). Then, in general, when making additional changes I use the ant target hotdeploy (and then usually have to restart the app server). With this background, I will try to answer your specific questions: Q1) Do i have to then look at jetspeed's(the jetspeed source) build file to come up with my build.xml? RBI believe that you can use the jetspeed's build.xml, but I believe that you do not have to modify that build.xml. /RB 2) Instead of exploding the jetspeed jar to \web-inf\classes can i just include this like a library jar in the web-inf\lib? RBDon't know. My approach was to incorporate my stuff into the Jetspeed framework, rather than just trying to use jetspeed as a jar. It would be cool if #2 was possible, but something tells me that it won't work (disclaimer: I am real newbie at this)/RB 3) If step 2 is valid then can i only take all the files that are missing in the jar file from the jetspeed directory and deploy them into the file structure of my custom portal? for e.g. the .properties files are not present in the jar file. Can i just copy this property files from jetspeed directory into the my own portal's space ,merge the properties and then build my own war file? RBNA, as I am assuming that #2 is false/RB 4) What are the recommended methods of source maintainence of custom portals? Does the jetspeed source also need to be maintained or the binaries and property files are enough? RBGreat question - as you can tell, I was under the impression that the jetspeed source needs to maintained, extended, modified, etc. - at least if you want to have any type of custom portlets. As you have probably seen, you can create DBMS portlets and RSS portlets without having to write any code
RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different adapters...
Here you go, trying to focus on the relevant sections. Note: when I
looked at your information, there seemed to be missing line breaks, but
I don't know if that would cause any problems.
# ---
#
# T O R Q U E P R O P E R T I E S
#
torque.database.default=default
torque.database.default.adapter=hypersonic
##
## Using torque's old pool
##
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.driver = org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.url =
jdbc:hsqldb:${webappRoot}/WEB-INF/db/jetspeed
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.user = sa
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.password =
torque.dsfactory.default.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataS
ourceFactory
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
### JMetro on WebLogic
torque.database.jmetro.adapter=weblogic
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataSo
urceFactory
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.driver =
weblogic.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.url =
jdbc:bea:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=jmetro
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.user = jmetro
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.password = *
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
I also have a mysql version, but that is at home, so it will be while
before I can get to it. Please let me know if you need that one. Other
things to consider - is the password correct and does that user have
appropriate access/permissions to the tables you are trying to access.
Good luck!
RB
Twenty Years | One Mission | Accelerating Business Processes
Richard Berger
Action Technologies, Inc.
VP, Product Management
510.748.1017 (Office)
510.769.0596 (Fax)
www.actiontech.com
NOTE: The opinions expressed herein are those of the writer and not necessarily those
of Action Technologies, Inc. or its employees or its affiliates.
-Original Message-
From: Louis-Philippe Brochu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different
adapters...
Hi,
Could you post your Torque.properties file? I still get the following
error at logon:
org.apache.jetspeed.services.security.UserException: Failed to save user
object
when trying to use the default Hypersonic database with another MySql
database.
Could somebody help me?
Here is my Torque.properties file:
torque.database.default=default
torque.database.default.adapter=hypersonic
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.driver = org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.url =
jdbc:hsqldb:${webappRoot}/WEB-INF/db/jetspeed
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.user = sa
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.password =
torque.dsfactory.default.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataS
ourceFactory
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
## Our test database
torque.database.mydb.adapter=mysql
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.driver = org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.url = jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/test
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.user = root
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.password = *
torque.dsfactory.mydb.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataSour
ceFactory
torque.dsfactory.mydb.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.mydb.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.mydb.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
thanks,
Louis-Philippe Brochu
-Original Message-
From: Richard Berger
Subject: RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different
adapters...
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:40:00 -0800
Jeremy:
Somehow I missed your post - my apologies in the delayed response. I
had seen those posts and couldn't quite figure out what I was doing
wrong. However, with a pointer from Paul Mansfield the key problem was
that I was missing the pool properties below.
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
Just simple confusion on my part. Now I am using Hypersonic for the
login and have a Database Portlet talking to SQL Server on WebLogic.
Thanks much for your response!
RB
-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:14 PM
To: 'Jetspeed Users List'
Subject: RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different
adapters...
Here a couple or threads regarding this issue. Hope this helps.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09382.ht ml
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07522.ht ml
Jeremy Ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different adapters...
Thanks for the fast reply.
What do you mean by line breaks? Also, my user has correct permissions
because i can log in in mysql fine.
I found out that i can get to the page after the failed to save error.
When i try to run my portlet which access my other database i get the
following error:
java.lang.NullPointerException: There was no DataSourceFactory configured
for the connection mydb
It looks like something in my config file is not correct... but what?
Here you go, trying to focus on the relevant sections. Note: when I
looked at your information, there seemed to be missing line breaks, but
I don't know if that would cause any problems.
# ---
#
# T O R Q U E P R O P E R T I E S
#
torque.database.default=default
torque.database.default.adapter=hypersonic
##
## Using torque's old pool
##
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.driver = org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.url
jdbc:hsqldb:${webappRoot}/WEB-INF/db/jetspeed
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.user = sa
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.password =
torque.dsfactory.default.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataS
ourceFactory
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
### JMetro on WebLogic
torque.database.jmetro.adapter=weblogic
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataSo
urceFactory
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.driver
weblogic.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.url
jdbc:bea:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=jmetro
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.user = jmetro
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.connection.password = *
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
I also have a mysql version, but that is at home, so it will be while
before I can get to it. Please let me know if you need that one. Other
things to consider - is the password correct and does that user have
appropriate access/permissions to the tables you are trying to access.
Good luck!
RB
Twenty Years | One Mission | Accelerating Business Processes
Richard Berger
Action Technologies, Inc.
VP, Product Management
510.748.1017 (Office)
510.769.0596 (Fax)
www.actiontech.com
NOTE: The opinions expressed herein are those of the writer and not
necessarily those of Action Technologies, Inc. or its employees or its
affiliates.
-Original Message-
From: Louis-Philippe Brochu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different
adapters...
Hi,
Could you post your Torque.properties file? I still get the following
error at logon:
org.apache.jetspeed.services.security.UserException: Failed to save user
object
when trying to use the default Hypersonic database with another MySql
database.
Could somebody help me?
Here is my Torque.properties file:
torque.database.default=default
torque.database.default.adapter=hypersonic
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.driver = org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.url
jdbc:hsqldb:${webappRoot}/WEB-INF/db/jetspeed
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.user = sa
torque.dsfactory.default.connection.password
torque.dsfactory.default.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataS
ourceFactory
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.default.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
## Our test database
torque.database.mydb.adapter=mysql
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.driver = org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.url = jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/test
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.user = root
torque.dsfactory.mydb.connection.password = *
torque.dsfactory.mydb.factory=org.apache.torque.dsfactory.TorqueDataSour
ceFactory
torque.dsfactory.mydb.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.mydb.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.mydb.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
thanks,
Louis-Philippe Brochu
-Original Message-
From: Richard Berger
Subject: RE: Connecting to two databases - but with different
adapters...
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:40:00 -0800
Jeremy:
Somehow I missed your post - my apologies in the delayed response. I
had seen those posts and couldn't quite figure out what I was doing
wrong. However, with a pointer from Paul Mansfield the key problem was
that I was missing the pool properties below.
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.defaultMaxConnections=10
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.maxExpiryTime=3600
torque.dsfactory.jmetro.pool.connectionWaitTimeout=10
Just simple confusion on my part. Now I am using Hypersonic for the
RE: build question---please help
Sounds like an interesting approach (but a little bit over my head) - I am very interested to hear how it all turns out. Good luck! RB Twenty Years | One Mission | Accelerating Business Processes Richard Berger Action Technologies, Inc. VP, Product Management 510.748.1017 (Office) 510.769.0596 (Fax) www.actiontech.com NOTE: The opinions expressed herein are those of the writer and not necessarily those of Action Technologies, Inc. or its employees or its affiliates. -Original Message- From: Archana Turaga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 1/20/2004 9:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: RE: build question---please help Thanks Richard. I appreciate the input (no you have not sidetracked me..:-). Meanwhile i found something in the jetspeed's build.xml that may help my issue. Well this is considering that none of the jetspeed source needs any change and will work as it is released in the CVS. Any extra classes that are written belong to a custom package structure belonging to the company and these most of the times (till now in my experience) trurn out to be extensions of existing jetspeed classes For e.g. Portlet classes extend JSPPortletAction. Considering above is the case the following can be done (based on the information in the jetspeed's build.xml) 1) Build jetspeed with the option war-template. 2) Explode this war to the app server webapps directory. 3) Copy the jetspeed jar and its dependent jars into the web-inf\lib directory. 4) Copy the custom portals template files to the template directories under the webapps/ 5) Copy the custom portals jars to the web-inf\lib directory. 6) This step is something i'm currently experimenting on. I'm going to try to create my.properties (following the jetspeed property override-howto) and see if i can also embed this. If this happens and my portal works then viola i think i have achieved most of my goal. If all the above steps are followed then i could do the following: 1) I can check-in the combined structure into our source control 2) Everybody else in our group can then check-in the jsps, java files to this structure 3) Write make files(not ant tasks but .gmk files) to build the custom portals jar files and custom portal's war file. Although jetspeed source will still be maintained as a separate entity and ant will be used to build the jar file needed for the custom portal. In future if there are any bug fixes then this source will be modified and the jar will be rebuilt and the custom portal's application war will have to be rebuilt to include this new jar. I hope i'm making some sense. If anybody sees a problem with this approach or tried the war-template approach please please let me know. Any input is appreciated because that will allow me to make a sound decision on the maintainence aspect of the portal. Thanks and i appreciate all the help, Regards, Archana [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/04 11:16AM Not sure if this is quite the answer you were seeking, but I am doing something similar - e.g. incorporating an existing portal application into the Jetspeed framework. Initially, I started by installing the jetspeed .war file and then hacking various configuration files. Then, in order to take the next step of incorporating my Java code, I realized I would need to have the source to Jetspeed and to incorporate my source into that structure (e.g. writing new portlets in the package org.apache.jetspeed.modules.actions.portlets). So, I downloaded the source and created new portlets. To do the build, I used the Jetspeed build.xml file, but I didn't need to make any changes in it. I put some additional .jar files in the appropriate lib directory and the ant tasks copy them to web-inf. Then to deploy my Jetspeed portal (with my portlets), I created a .war file and then exploded it into the deployment directory (I used slightly different locations for Jboss and WebLogic). Then, in general, when making additional changes I use the ant target hotdeploy (and then usually have to restart the app server). With this background, I will try to answer your specific questions: Q1) Do i have to then look at jetspeed's(the jetspeed source) build file to come up with my build.xml? RBI believe that you can use the jetspeed's build.xml, but I believe that you do not have to modify that build.xml. /RB 2) Instead of exploding the jetspeed jar to \web-inf\classes can i just include this like a library jar in the
