Re: maven portlet deployment

That is a good question, I think they wanted to leave it up to the 
individual portal vendors but it can cause some confusion. The best 
policy it do develop with a 'clean' web.xml and only add the portal 
specific bits just before deploying (with a tool such as the Pluto Maven 
Plugin)

-Eric

Antony Stubbs wrote:
> Cheers! Thanks for the explanation. 
>
> I wonder why there's no standard way of doing this in the spec?
>
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> Eric Dalquist wrote:
>   
>> 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...
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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