[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Portlet container update

[julien@jboss.com]

I started to detach the portlet container stuff last week, but I have not removed it yet from 2.6 until I have the detached container able to run the testsuite using the web integration SPI.

The status on the web integration SPI is that for now it works with tomcat which means that it is able to modify tomcat deployed war files to insert the request dispatch servlet and produce added/removed events to the registered listeners. This is not unit tested yet. It requires to put jars in the lib directory of tomcat and to modify tomcat conf/server.xml to add a listener class that setup the web application registry. Later of course we want to try to have other implementation of the web SPI when it is needed.

I started to write a test portal based on the web SPI and the JBoss MC 2.0 Beta3 that boostrap a few beans for the moment. On the web SPI add/removed event for web applications it takes the usual PortletApplicationImpl and PortletContainerImpl and let JBoss MC take care of the instantiation and the life cycle of the beans. So this is a good progress imho (thanks Ales for helping me on that :-) ).

So only the deployment stuff is integrated (yet not unit tested). What is left is the runtime stuff which consist in being able to translate web request into portlet container interactions. Previous implementation was based on the server module (in 2.6). We will probably have for now a simpler implementation for now that will use a simple servlet.

I worked also on the test module and worked on having it being able to use Cargo and JBoss Remoting instead of JBoss 4.x MainDeployer and JMX Remoting. This is not yes commited in the SVN. The goal here is to be able to use the test framework with any environment since Cargo is able to deploy to multiple containers and JBoss Remoting seems to provide also an easy to use remoting layer.



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