[JBoss Tools Development] - Portlet Development is Effectively Unusable in JBoss Tools
by Robert Brown III
Robert Brown III [http://community.jboss.org/people/factor3] created the discussion
"Portlet Development is Effectively Unusable in JBoss Tools"
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I am attempting to use JBoss Tools to develop portlets, and its so- called "support" for portlets does not work.
I have read the documentation and have downloaded the tools that are supposed to support portlet development. According to the documentation, in order to begin portlet development we are supposed to create a "Dynamic Web Project" and setup the project to work within a JBoss runtime.
Instead of using the default configuration for the server, we are supposed to click "Modify" and, in the Facet window we are supposed to select the checkbox for Portlet support.
Trouble is: there +is no+ "Portlet support" checkbox!
Without portlet support, any attempt to create portlets to run within a Portal server creates failures. In fact, some of the failures have been known to crash Helios.
Note that thie problem of missing Portlet support facets is not new to the latest Tools. This problem also exists in versions designed for Eclipse 3.5 installations as well.
Until this problem is fixed, your tools are completely unusable for portlet development. Note that for this reason, I will likely be using OpenPortal tools for my portlet development until someone fixes thios problem.
Are there any plans to fix this problem?
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Re: [jboss-user] [JBoss Tools] - JBoss Tools 3.2.0.M1 (Eclipse 3.6/Helios)
by Robert Brown III
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"JBoss Tools 3.2.0.M1 (Eclipse 3.6/Helios)"
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JBoss Tools Portlet development does not work.
According to the documentation, in order to create a portlet project we are supposed to create a dynamic web application. The application is supposed to be comfigured to point to a JBoss installation, and instead of using the "default configuration" for the JBoss runtime, we are supposed to click the Modify button and select Portlet support in the resulting window.
The resulting window does not have a portlet support checkbox! Consequently, when you try to create a portlet there are errors and problems due to the portlet JARs missing.
This problen has existed in the Tools for Eclipse 3.5 as well as the Tools for 3.6. In other words, the bug has been successfully transferrd inti the newer version.
This problem persists regardless of the fact that the Tools for portlets has been downloaded. It effectively makes portlet development impossible.
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13 years, 10 months