Re: [jbosstools-dev] Showing no URL after deploying a Portlet project
> Eclipse cannot import just directories and files....they are of
some
> eclipse known project type. And yes they are a war - which I assume
> if you out a servlet or index.html in these actually will be served
> out as such, correct?
The content of Portlet WARs is served by a portlet container and not by
servlet container. There may exist files like index.html, but they usually
do not make much sense standalone. They are fragments that are intended
to be embedded in some context by the portlet container. Moreover, ATM
there is no way how portlets could be accessed standalone via URL.
I'm not talking about the portlets in there, but stuff that is not portlets, like
servlets, html/jsf pages etc.
But I guess what you are saying is that gatein gets to "mount" the war somewhere
else than the servlet container.
>>> What inside these projects (which eclipse has info about)
can be
>>> used to decide its not relevant to open ?
>>
>> Yes, that is what I proposed: JBT should not show any URL for
>> projects which have gatein-3.5-bom dependency in their POMs. Is
>> that doable?
>
> The stuff that figures out what is runnable doesn't have access to
> maven metadata so its not a good choice IMO. It can see files and
> classpath entries if it must.
I see, so looking if there is a src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/portlet.xml file in the project
would work, right?
That is a better approach yes, but what do you expect to happen when such file is found ?
Just doing "nothing" seems wrong. Maybe a dialog showing some explanation ?
Any suggestion on what this would say ?
Maybe something like "It looks like this project is a portlet and thus a proper URL
cannot be calculated. Instead go to <something?> to find your page" ?
btw. I assume Run and Debug as should still actually start the server and in case of debug
attach the debugger to it.
in any case, please open a bug in JBIDE with this request.
/max