Hi Nolan, the vanilla extension hasn't been updated for a while. I just updated the project to work with the latest 0.19 code. Sorry for this inconvenience. The idea behind the vanilla extension is to show how you can overlay the regular portal and override the default services, in this case the UserService. Shindig has its own war to separate the portal from the actual OpenSocial container. Besides Shindig we also bundle Wookie for rendering W3C widgets. In your local setup Shindig, Wookie and the Rave portal will run in the same Tomcat instance, but in production it is possible to separate these wars over multiple machines. In [1] you can find the architectural diagram of the several components.
[1] http://rave.apache.org/documentation/components.html Jasha On 29 December 2012 11:27, Nolan Darilek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm attempting to determine if Rave is a good fit for a project. To that > end, after playing with the demo, I tried bootstrapping the vanilla portal > as per these instructions: > > http://rave.apache.org/**documentation/rave-extensions.**html<http://rave.apache.org/documentation/rave-extensions.html> > > with the plan of slowly adding on functionality. I ran into several > issues, though. > > First, apologies for not providing detailed logs and such. I can if > desired, but I think these directions are clear enough to duplicate the > issues, and I didn't deviate from the docs much at all. > > I checked out and built the 0.19-SNAPSHOT. I then checked out the vanilla > repository. Vanilla depends on 0.15-SNAPSHOT, which was my first hurdle. I > upgraded the dependency to 0.19-SNAPSHOT and that worked. > > Next I ran into issues where the standard user service didn't compile > under 0.19. I removed this plus the tests, so I can't say if this caused > the final problem I experienced. Figured I didn't need the service since > the demo worked, and I could add extras if I needed them. > > Finally I ran cargo, and received a huge exception with at least one other > as its cause. I'd include it here, but it's pages upon pages upon pages of > output. > > It looks like the Vanilla portal hasn't been updated to 0.19-SNAPSHOT, or > even 0.18, and I'm guessing that any developer who tries will run into the > same series of problems I did. Is there a better course of action than what > I did, or is there a new recommended procedure? > > Also, I'm a bit confused about the vanilla portal's creation of two rather > than one project. I understand that the portal creates user accounts, a > default gadget store, etc. and uses Shindig as a gadget container. Is there > any reason Shindig comes as a separate project in the vanilla portal? Is it > so you can override Shindig pages in your own portal? I'm very new to > Maven, vastly preferring Gradle, so I'm not familiar with how the war > overlay stuff works. It'd be nice if someone has a Gradle version of the > vanilla project, but my tentative research suggests it doesn't do overlays, > so I suspect it's out. > > Thanks, and please let me know if I need to provide detailed logs after > all. >
