Re: maven portlet deployment

No, pluto cannot detect the presence of the portlets. It needs the 
wrapper servlet to do the following:
-Know the portlet webapp exists
-Determine the location of the portlet.xml file and parse it along with 
the web.xml
-Have a location to dispatch requests to that portlet to, if there was 
no servlet how could a portal in another webapp target the portlet?

All portals I am aware of do some similar sort of web.xml modification 
when deploying portlet webapps to their container.

-Eric


Antony Stubbs wrote:
> Hmm, after examining what it generates, it seems wrap your portlet in a pluto
> servlet...
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> Antony Stubbs wrote:
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>> Yes I would also like to know what it does, and why it is necessary to use
>> - should we not simple be able to deploy simple wars that are portal
>> compatible? can't pluto detect their existence?
>>
>> I have found this, but it doesn't really answer my question - from the
>> AssembleMojo javadoc:
>>  * The AssembleMojo is responsible for assembling a web application for
>> deployment
>>  * into the Pluto portlet container.  Assembly, in this context, is the
>> process of
>>  * updating a web application's WEB-INF/web.xml with Pluto specific
>> parameters for 
>>  * deployment in Pluto.   
>>  * <p>
>>  * This Mojo is able to operate on individual descriptors by specifying 
>>  * <code>portletXml</code>, <code>webXml</code>, and
>> <code>webXmlDestination</code>.
>>  * If your project uses standard Maven 2 directory layouts, the defaults
>> will
>>  * provide proper values.
>>  * <p/>
>>  * Example Maven 2 <code>pom.xml</code> usage:
>>
>>
>> chadmichael wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm using pluto 1.0.1.
>>>
>>> I'm just trying to learn portlets.  What exactly does the maven
>>> portlet deployment do?  I'm talking about the one in the source code
>>> distribution, deploy directory.  I'm using it to deploy my portlet
>>> applications, as per the pluto site docs, and it works, but I want to
>>> know what it does?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>     
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