Are OFBiz portlets JSR 168 compliant?

[Ruth Hoffman-2]

Hi All:
Are these portlets in the JSR 168 sense? Has someone integrated a portal
server to work with OFBiz and Tomcat? If so, that is really neat! Any
documentation?

Regards,
Ruth

[David E. Jones-2]

No, the portal/portlet stuff in OFBiz doesn't have much to do with JSR  
168/268. In discussions about that standard it didn't seem to help  
with what we wanted to do in OFBiz, and in fact it would cause some  
problems like not being able to use Screen Widget definitions as  
portlets (the OFBiz portlet implementation is basically a database  
record pointing to a screen definition).

You may have already done this, but the My Portal application is a  
great place to look at what Bruno, Hans, and others have done with  
this. You can create your own portal pages and configure any existing  
portal page (for the OOTB pages this creates a user-specific variant  
of the portal page), configure columns on the pages, and add/remove/
move portlets. Also in the specialpurpose/myportal component there are  
lots of good examples of how to configure portal pages and configure/
implement portlets (often reusing all or parts of other screens in  
OFBiz).

-David


On Jun 15, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:

> Hi All:
> Are these portlets in the JSR 168 sense? Has someone integrated a  
> portal server to work with OFBiz and Tomcat? If so, that is really  
> neat! Any documentation?
>
> Regards,
> Ruth

[Ruth Hoffman-2]

Thanks David for clarifying. I have not had a chance to look at the My
Portal application - but will do so soon.
For what it is worth, I never thought much about the portal/portlet (JSR
168/268) "fade" [way too much work for such a small return] until
recently when I bumped into an entire industry built around the
Websphere Portal Server and all the non-existent or impossible to use
software that IBM had talked customers into buying.  Seems like lots of
people spent lots of money implementing Websphere Portal Server and have
little to show for it, except for some "portlets".

Ruth


David E Jones wrote:

> No, the portal/portlet stuff in OFBiz doesn't have much to do with JSR
> 168/268. In discussions about that standard it didn't seem to help
> with what we wanted to do in OFBiz, and in fact it would cause some
> problems like not being able to use Screen Widget definitions as
> portlets (the OFBiz portlet implementation is basically a database
> record pointing to a screen definition).
>
> You may have already done this, but the My Portal application is a
> great place to look at what Bruno, Hans, and others have done with
> this. You can create your own portal pages and configure any existing
> portal page (for the OOTB pages this creates a user-specific variant
> of the portal page), configure columns on the pages, and
> add/remove/move portlets. Also in the specialpurpose/myportal
> component there are lots of good examples of how to configure portal
> pages and configure/implement portlets (often reusing all or parts of
> other screens in OFBiz).
>
> -David
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Hi All:
>> Are these portlets in the JSR 168 sense? Has someone integrated a
>> portal server to work with OFBiz and Tomcat? If so, that is really
>> neat! Any documentation?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ruth
>
>

[Shi Jinghai]

We'll do this in this year (view part only, edit may be in next year).
We have completed view portlets for viewvc, svn, archiva, bugzilla and
opencms.

We'll put the result here:
http://langhua.org/

Shi Jinghai/Beijing Langhua Ltd.


在 2009-06-15一的 21:37 -0400，Ruth Hoffman写道：

> Thanks David for clarifying. I have not had a chance to look at the My
> Portal application - but will do so soon.
> For what it is worth, I never thought much about the portal/portlet (JSR
> 168/268) "fade" [way too much work for such a small return] until
> recently when I bumped into an entire industry built around the
> Websphere Portal Server and all the non-existent or impossible to use
> software that IBM had talked customers into buying.  Seems like lots of
> people spent lots of money implementing Websphere Portal Server and have
> little to show for it, except for some "portlets".
>
> Ruth
>
>
> David E Jones wrote:
> > No, the portal/portlet stuff in OFBiz doesn't have much to do with JSR
> > 168/268. In discussions about that standard it didn't seem to help
> > with what we wanted to do in OFBiz, and in fact it would cause some
> > problems like not being able to use Screen Widget definitions as
> > portlets (the OFBiz portlet implementation is basically a database
> > record pointing to a screen definition).
> >
> > You may have already done this, but the My Portal application is a
> > great place to look at what Bruno, Hans, and others have done with
> > this. You can create your own portal pages and configure any existing
> > portal page (for the OOTB pages this creates a user-specific variant
> > of the portal page), configure columns on the pages, and
> > add/remove/move portlets. Also in the specialpurpose/myportal
> > component there are lots of good examples of how to configure portal
> > pages and configure/implement portlets (often reusing all or parts of
> > other screens in OFBiz).
> >
> > -David
> >
> >
> > On Jun 15, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All:
> >> Are these portlets in the JSR 168 sense? Has someone integrated a
> >> portal server to work with OFBiz and Tomcat? If so, that is really
> >> neat! Any documentation?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ruth
> >
> >
>