Create your own Portlet Container

Create your own Portlet Container

1. Download portlet-container-configurator.jar from

http://java.net/projects/portlet-container/downloads/download/version2.1.2%252Fportlet-container-configurator.jar

2. Get fresh Copy of Tomcat6.0

Configuration

Now from the jar you can configure your server to Portlet-containter in two way

1. Using GUI
2. From Command Line

1. From GUI

java -jar portlet-container-configurator.jar

• You can choose container from select menu, select Tomcat6. (you can select GlassFish, Tomcat5, etc ,as shown in screen)
• Set the Ant Home path
• Same as Set Container Home Directory for Tomcat
  • C:\Apache-tomcat-6.0.35\
• Domain Directory
  • C:\Apache-tomcat-6.0.35\webapps

Click on the “Ok” button.

2. From Command Line

java -jar portlet-container-configurator.jar <webcontainer-install-dir> <domain-dir/webapps> <ContainerName> <ANT_HMOE>

<webcontainer-install-dir>

• location of installed WebContainer, ex: C:\Apache-tomcat-6.0.35\

<domain-dir/webapps>

• path upto webapps folder, ex: C:\Apache-tomcat-6.0.35\webapps

<ContainerName>

• container can be one of tomcat, tomcat6, jetty, weblogic. Here in our case it is tomcat6.

java -jar portlet-container-configurator.jar C:\Apache-tomcat-6.0.35 C:\Apache-tomcat-6.0.35\webapps tomcat6 C:\ANT\

Now Goto the WebContainer(tomcat6/bin) and restart/start the server.

Hit the URL in Browser

http://localhost:8080/portletdriver/dt

You can see two tab in portlet container driver. Portles and Admin

From Admin tab User can deploy Portlet as well configure the portles and create a New portlet window.

One can also assing role to portlets.

By Default portlet container store the data in file system, you can configure Database for saving data.

Just change the configuration file 'DriverConfig.properties' located at

C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.35\portlet-container\config\ DriverConfig.properties

The Default configuration is


persistenceType=file


# Specify the properties if the persistence type is database


jdbc.url=jdbc:derby:portletdriver;create=true
jdbc.driver=org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver
jdbc.user=
jdbc.password=


change to

persistenceType=database
# For MySQL
jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/portletdriver
jdbc.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.user=root

jdbc.password=root