[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: One portlet - two window

2006-05-28 Thread PMO
You could have two instances on the same portlet, one per window. Then adding preferences to each, so one is using controller 1 and the other controller 2. see instance descriptor to add preferences. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3947178#39471

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: JBoss Portal Innovation Award

2006-02-22 Thread PMO
Is the condition for the product to be in live production in march a must have conditions - could it be June? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3925664#3925664 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: jboss-portal-2.2.0-bundled

2006-02-19 Thread PMO
2.2.0 is very buggy, 2.2.1 rc1 less buggy I am using 2.2.1 RC2 bundle with postgres 8.1 - it works well. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3924953#3924953 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3924

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Layout Strategy - ACTIVATED PORTLET ???????????

2006-02-07 Thread PMO
Well, this is a bug in 2.2.1 : getTargetPortlet() returns null !!! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3922129#3922129 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3922129 -

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Layout Strategy - ACTIVATED PORTLET ???????????

2006-02-07 Thread PMO
How do I know within the Strategy which portlet is activated? When I trace things under the debugger, even the HttpServerRequest never return the URL that has the window activated. How can I define a strtegy if I do not know which portlet was activated ? View the original post : http://www.jbo

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Layout Strategy - TARGET PORTLET

2006-02-07 Thread PMO
When I click on a portlet decoration to either change mode or window state, I get null as the context.getTargetPortlet() Is this a bug in version 2.2.1 ? If not, when does it return something? thanks, View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=392204

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Layout Strategy

2006-02-06 Thread PMO
The layoutstrategy operates at the html page level, correct? so, if write my own strategy it becomes possible to propagate a parameter to every portlet by using the setAttribute() method of the PortletContext correct? In addition to that I can access to the http request parameters using the meth

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - decoration

2006-02-06 Thread PMO
I like to choose what decorations (mode and window state) are supported and rendered. Is there a way to do that using properties or do I have to write my own decoration renderer ? thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3921902#3921902 Reply

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: portal management response time > 3 secs !

2006-02-06 Thread PMO
What I did was very simple : change my log4j.xml to some unsane value. My mistake! thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3921881#3921881 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3921881 -

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: portal management response time > 3 secs !

2006-02-05 Thread PMO
I have a lot of those : 2006-02-06 01:03:41,919 WARN [org.hibernate.cache.ReadWriteCache] (org.hibernate.cache.ReadWriteCache.handleLockExpiry(ReadWriteCache.java:214)) An item was expired by the cache while it was locked (increase your cache timeout): org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.O

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: portal management response time > 3 secs !

2006-02-05 Thread PMO
Thanks for the answer. I am still wondering why... I have an intel P IV Dual Core 3 GHz and 4 GB RAM - am running Windows 2003, and the jvm is 1.4.2. The server and the client run on the same machine (localhost port 8080) If I find out what it is, I will let you know... View the original post

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: portal management response time > 3 secs !

2006-02-05 Thread PMO
I tried with 2.2.1 bundled, changed to postgresql, creating a new database. Once the portal is started, the gui launched and connected under admin. clicking back and forth on "management" tab and on "default" tab takes between 3 to 6 seconds. It is extremely slow. Compared to that my portlet ar

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: portal management response time > 3 secs !

2006-02-04 Thread PMO
Not many for now: . a portal . 36 pages . 108 windows / portlet instances This will grow by 5 or 6 times And in addition, multiple virtual portal like this one will coreside... Thanks Philippe View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3921675#3921675 R

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - portal management response time > 3 secs !

2006-02-03 Thread PMO
Is there any reason that would explain why the response time is between 2 and 4 seconds, sometimes more ? It must be something, right? great product anyway... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3921633#3921633 Reply to the post : http://www.jbo

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - How to access to User interface in jsp file (layout) ?

2006-02-02 Thread PMO
How can I access to org.jboss.portal.core.model.User interface in jsp ? or alternatively access to FamilyName, GivenName and LastVisit ? Thanks for an answer, Philippe View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3921390#3921390 Reply to the post : http:/

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: 2.2 Layout - Theme - layout Startegy

2006-02-01 Thread PMO
I fixed it: may be a bug (or a missing point in documentation) Apparently it is not allowed to use "." in a name (either theme or layout) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3920985#3920985 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - 2.2 Layout - Theme - layout Startegy

2006-01-31 Thread PMO
I am receiving an exception Strategy can only be evaluated with a valid layout provided. but I am not seeing what I am doing wrong, could you help? Thanks, Philippe The war file contains the folowing folders: /layouts /themes /images /scripts /META-INF /WEB-INF below is portal-laouts.xml in /

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal Instance Authentication

2006-01-30 Thread PMO
The security constraint should be located in the *-object.xml file and can be attached to , or in a deployment. Every authenticated user gets the role Authenticated but you can specify any existing role to limit access of a portal, a page or a window to users who have that role (window I did

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal Instance Authentication

2006-01-30 Thread PMO
The security constraint should be located in the *-object.xml file and can be attached to , or in a deployment. Every authenticated user gets the role Authenticated but you can specify any existing role to limit access of a portal, a page or a window to users who have that role (window I did

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal Instances and URLs

2006-01-30 Thread PMO
if you define myPortal as a portal instance in the *-objects.xml file then you'll get what you want. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3920395#3920395 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3920395

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal Instance Authentication

2006-01-30 Thread PMO
Define a role and assign users to this role in order to access a portal, page or instance. Below I used Authenticated, but any defined role should be fine. | |Authenticated |view | | | View the original post : http://www.jbos

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal 2.2 - Transaction - CMT

2006-01-28 Thread PMO
It does not seem to be working with 2.0. My hibernate service is implemented as a org.hibernate.jmx.HibernateService; type Exception report | | message | | description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. | | exception |

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: preferences from non authenticated user

2006-01-18 Thread PMO
Maybe I was not clear. My purpose was not to give advice on the two techniques to associate preferences to a user by using jaas authentication or by using cookies. I was only drawing your attention that jboss portal provides preferences associated to a portlet (or instance of a portlet), so it

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: preferences from non authenticated user

2006-01-18 Thread PMO
Just to mention, that besides jaas or cookies, preferences are per user per portlet (or per user per portlet instance i don't know). I needed per user preferences, so I had to write my own preferences and forget about the rest. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: portal 2.2 vs 2.01

2006-01-17 Thread PMO
I agree Portal 2.0.1 works fine and is much simpler to configure and documentation is almost there. Portal 2.2 is missing documentation, has features that are either complicated or does not trace information on what is going wrong or missing. In addition, there are major bugs. It's a real pain.

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal 2.2 - Transaction - CMT

2006-01-16 Thread PMO
Thanks for the answer. Now that I have a choice what should I read to understand what choice to make? All portlets in the page should use the same user transaction - at least in my application -, is there any reason I should not use the portal transaction? (besides, any good documentation to

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Portal 2.2 - null or empty portlet html fragment

2006-01-12 Thread PMO
If a portlet DoView() returns with an empty or null html fragment then the portal container throw an exception. This is unecessary as it forces me to write at least one blank. philippe View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3917255#3917255 Reply to

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal 2.2 - Window Name Scope

2006-01-12 Thread PMO
My mistake. Window had two tags properties. So, window name has the scope of the page containing the window. correct? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3917252#3917252 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Portal 2.2 - Window Name Scope

2006-01-12 Thread PMO
It seems that there is a constraint on window name to be unique in the "default-object.xml" file, is that correct? I am saying this because I am getting this : 2006-01-12 23:31:17,968 DEBUG [org.jboss.portal.core.deployment.jboss.ObjectDeployment] Loading portal metadata from file:/E:/pmn/pmn

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Portal 2.2 - Transaction - CMT

2006-01-12 Thread PMO
in portlet configuration I can define a transaction tag: | | | Required | | ... | Does this mean I can consider to be in a CMT environment (JTA Transaction already started) and call SessionFactory.getCurrentSession(); ? Philippe View the original post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: ERROR: invalid large-object descriptor

2006-01-11 Thread PMO
I got the same and it came up in the forum. This has been fixed. You need to checkout the release that contain the fix and compile it. If you browse the forum or the sources under cvs you will probably find it. I plan to do this also. hope this helps. View the original post : http://www.jbos

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal 2.2 - virtual portal / theme / layout / context r

2006-01-11 Thread PMO
Thank you. Portal 2.2 is a major release compare to 2.0 - although it claims to be minor. Deployment package is really a great feature: it allows me to release separately core sw package, virtual portal and client package(theme+layout), facilitating a deployement policy for maintainance release

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal 2.2 properties tag

2006-01-11 Thread PMO
The tag properties ... (sorry the xml syntax did not show= View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3916953#3916953 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3916953

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Portal 2.2 tag

2006-01-11 Thread PMO
This is only to mention that if a page does not have the tag in its corresponding "-objects.xml" then clicking on the page in the portal tree in the management tab of admin gui throws a null exception. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3916949

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal 2.2 - virtual portal / theme / layout / context r

2006-01-11 Thread PMO
Thanks for the answers, seems perfect. What do you call a context? Is it the in jboss-app.xml ? the in web.xml ? anything else ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3916923#3916923 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Portal 2.2 - virtual portal / theme / layout / context root

2006-01-10 Thread PMO
I am deploying two virtual portals A and B.Both are using the same portlet P (deployed in A) | Scope | When deploying a page, window and instance of P in portal B I can refer to the portlet P using the scope "A" in the tag, correct? | | | | Theme | I am deploying ThemeA with A a

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: portal 2.2 deployement warning/error

2006-01-09 Thread PMO
use the "if-exists" deployment xml tag with caution. You should always use "overwrite" at least until you got something working, otherwise any error becomes persistent. Hope this helps! Philippe View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3916459#391645

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: JBP 2.2.0 Documentation Question - portal tree?

2006-01-04 Thread PMO
By the way, I understand that it is possible to not specify any parent ref for an object. The object is then not a part of the tree and therefore sort of hidden from the admin tree. Correct? There is also some confusion with the "portal tree", "portal" and "page". As pages can be organised in a

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Portal 2.2 - XML file - *-object.xml

2005-12-20 Thread PMO
Can you tell what are the list of required xml files ? In 2.0 I have : *-portal.xml | *-pages.xml | portlet.xml | portlet-instances.xml | portal-theme.xml | portal-layout.xml | jboss-portal.xml | jboss-web.xml | jboss-app.xml | web.xml It seems that these types of files

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Reporting a few errors

2005-12-20 Thread PMO
In the test page there are many tests: . missing instance . missing portlet . exception test works one time only, showing different types of exceptions. Clicking on one exception breaks the portlet. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3913626#3913

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Portal 2.2 - XML files - questions

2005-12-20 Thread PMO
in portlet.xml: 1. Is related to PortalContext.getInitParameter(java.lang.String name) ? | Default path to index page. | indexpage | /default/index.html | 2. What is for? | user.name.nickName | in jboss-portlet.xml: 3. wh

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal 2.2 - PAGES as Tab in the admin user interface

2005-12-19 Thread PMO
We are expecting to pre-release it around march with workflow and jasper integration around june. We have not decided yet on the business model. If you have guidance for us we will be happy to listen from you. You can write us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The point is that we are concentrating on model

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Reporting a few errors

2005-12-19 Thread PMO
I am getting many exceptions of the same at different places. root causes are: org.apache.jasper.JasperException | org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:370) | org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314) | org.ap

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal 2.2 - PAGES as Tab in the admin user interface

2005-12-19 Thread PMO
I'll do that, thank you. My application is a portfolio of services, each being relatively simple. 2.2 has major enhancements and migrating my 800 portlets app is a piece of work - I hope not having to face severe regression. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&o

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: Portal 2.2 - Quality - Blocking CMS

2005-12-19 Thread PMO
Roy you should try it really, it is not behaving correctly. The only option left to the user is to disconnect the user and reconnect. I turned on the persistence manager based on hibernate but it did not work well in either configuration "blob as external" or not. I am using Postgres... View th

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Portal 2.2 - PAGES as Tab in the admin user interface

2005-12-18 Thread PMO
My portal application has more than 65 services relating to each other, each service having two or three pages. As it is not clear to me, if TAB is a portal instance or a Portal Page - I believe right now it is a portal page, then it means more than 200 TABs on screen! The current interface i

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Portal 2.2 - FORUM disappeared from the release

2005-12-18 Thread PMO
All is in the title ... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3913283#3913283 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3913283 --- This SF.net email is

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Portal 2.2 - Quality - Blocking CMS

2005-12-18 Thread PMO
It seems that even the "final" 2.2 release has remaining quality issues. I followed the instructions listed in the user guide and it worked well, until I tried to view a text file that I have created under a directory that I created also. I guess that my file has been created with another local

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - page URL : another question

2005-10-27 Thread PMO
Hello, I could not see the definition of page URL in JSR 168, so why is it defined in Jboss Portal then? I must have misread it. However, a page URL could be a concept to pass parameters to all portlets instances in the page - but unfortunately that's not what is implemented by Jboss Portal.

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Adding parameters to a page URL

2005-10-20 Thread PMO
Hello, Qestion 1: If I use a page URL, something like index?ctrl:id=page.myportal.mypage could I add parameters to the URL such as &objid=1 and would these parameters be passed to every portal instance in the page? Question 2: If I, later on, send a portlet action URL, I would resend the obji

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - Re: preferences from non authenticated user

2005-10-17 Thread PMO
Thanks a lot for the clear answer. Regards, Philippe View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3901636#3901636 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3901636 --

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Portal] - preferences from non authenticated user

2005-10-15 Thread PMO
It seems that these preferences are not persisted after closing the client. I connect to the portal as a non authenticated user, make some mods, call store() and can see preferences changes while the client is not closed. Any explication? Where are those preferences persisted? Is it possible to