Re: Need information on how to get start to work with jetspeed2

On 25/09/2012 4:49 AM, Bruce Porteous wrote:
> Tried the tutorial a year or so back - the one key item I remember was that
> when it requires Maven 2.2.1 or later, it doesn't mean Maven 3 (which
> didn't work).
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:42 AM, parimal gain <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm completely new for jetspeed or say portal development. When i looked at
>> apache portal development got information about jetspeed. Then i started to
>> study what it is and how to go ahead with this. I used to this link
>> http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/tutorial/index.html. This document
>> says to use SNAPSHOT for initial phase to be familiar with jetspeed. I
>> tried to follow the instruction but couldn't succeed getting multiple error
>> at deployment or build phase and I'm unable to understand the reason why
>> its failed since Maven is also new for me.
>>
>> So at initial question is
>> 1) How to start working on jetspeed2?
Run the installer and enjoy. That should get you a working portal.
>> 2) Will SNAPSHOT version solve the purpose of my requirement(described
>> below) ?
Snapshot is for your code and it just indicates that the module in 
question is under development. Read up on Maven a little bit.
>> 3) Is Maven is required to work with jetspeed2? If not then what are other
>> alternatives and how to go ahead with that?
Maven is a good tool for building webapps but not essential. I don't 
know anyone who is not using Maven to build applications but that is 
more of a reflection on my limited circle of friends than a comment on 
the universe of software developers.
>> 4) Can I use FTL(free marker template language) instead of jsp as ui
>> developement?
You can use many different UI architectures. You just need to make sure 
that there is a bridge for it that allows the Jetspeed portal to mix the 
UI from your application with the rest of the page that the portal is 
producing.
>> 5) How to get the complete source code and build a customized application
>> with that?
You do not need to modify Jetspeed.
Your application is a portlet that will be merged on the screen with the 
menu, headers, footers and other portlets produced by Jetspeed according 
to your configuration instructions.

>>
>> My Requirement -
>> I want to have some communication between two or more server and want to
>> create an portal application that will get data from other application and
>> display that in form of graph, chart and report.
>> There might be more but at initial I have this requirement.
You do not need a portal unless you are going display several different 
portlets at once.
This sounds like a simple webapp that you could make with Spring or one 
of the many WebApp frameworks.

However, it is a pretty simple set of portlets that could be 
incorporated into Jetspeed.
You could make each of these displays as a portlet and let the user 
specify which ones they want on the page.

>> All experts are requested to please help me to move ahead with my
>> requirement.
>>
>> Thanks in Advance !!!!
>> --
>> Parimal Gain
>>


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