Liferay faces bridge makes developing jsf portlets as similar as possible to jsf web app development. This tutorial covers the steps required to display webcenter taskflows created with the oracle jsf portlet bridge as portlets in oracle webcenter interaction for a windows environment. This software allows developers to write a portlet application as if it was a jsf application. The java portlet container specification will define the required behavior of a jsr 168jsr286 portlet that proxies for jsf artifacts. I have put the source from this tutorial on my bitbucket repository download it there or check it. You can learn more about the bridge in the understanding liferay faces bridge tutorial. This technology is also part of the jee standard, and thus several implementations are available. Download the appropriate jsf portlet bridge binary jsfportlet. In this tutorial, youll learn the portlet development process and how to leverage liferay faces bridges full potential with your jsf portlets. May 08, 2012 creating the jsf portlet bridge project. Good portal tutorials from the scratch portals and. In the configuration snippet above, the navigationsystem of jsf is configured to jump from page1 to page2, if the outcome success is returned from the actionmethod.
Portlet tutorial, apache pluto portlet portal example tutorial, portlet request, portlet response, portlet example code, action request, action response. Java server faces jsf is a javabased web application framework intended to simplify development integration of webbased user interfaces. Jetspeed simple velocity portlet guide apache portals. Tailored solutions built fast, secure, and connected on one platform. To try it out, run the sample included in the distribution or download and tweek the mojarra faces. The following commands do this using the jboss profile. Next, all thats left is to download the jboss portlet bridge distribution and cofigure your portlet to use the bridge. Implementation of the jsr301 and jsr329 portlet bridge specifications. The portlet bridge handles the portal actionrender paradigm to.
When creating a jsf portlet, the bridge jars are automatically downloaded into. Liferay faces bridge enables you to deploy jsf web apps as portlets without writing portlet specific java code. Using predestroy and bridgepredestroy annotations with liferay faces bridge migrating from liferay faces 3. Liferay jsf ipc using event inter portlet communication. You dont necessarily have to deal with the jsr 168 apis, you can directly take advantage of the power of adf. Once portal is started then you can see the message in server console says that sever started and minutes the took to start server. Josh has authored a number of books pertaining to the java platform, and he frequently writes articles for oracle java magazine and otn.
This jar is packaged and shipped with ibm rational application developer. Jsr 329 is the standards effort to define the functionality for the portlet. This is resolved in the current master on github, and will be part of beta4. However, you do need to use the appropriate jsf bridge.
The oracle jsf portlet bridge enables you to easily convert any jsf application or task flow into a jsr 168 portlet, which you can then add to an application or standardsbased portal. Instead, because the work is overdue given that jsf 2. This will make it easy for you to implement portlets using jsf. Build the jsfapplicantportlet from liferayfaces on github and deploy it to your portal bundle. It talked about jsf portlet bridge, and showed him creating a video of his creating a. Using the same jsf portlet bridge jsr 301 under the covers, you can use the portlet creation wizard in jdeveloper to build jsf adf portlets very easily. The problem was actually not related to the namingcontainer, but was due to the bridge comparing portlet modes and detecting a change, when there wasnt one, which meant the bridge request scope was cleared instead of being used. This bridge is the reference implementation for jsr 301. Support your customers, partners, and employees with a single flexible digital experience platform that works to bring value to your business and end users. You do this declaratively, using the create portlet entry dialog. The jboss jsf portlet bridge project provides a maven archetype to easily create a fresh jsf portlet bridge project with jsf 2. The oracle jsf portlet bridge extends the apache reference implementation of jsr 329.
The liferay faces project features the jsf2cdiportlet demo which is a variant of the jsf2portlet demo. The jboss portlet bridge or jbpb for short is a nonfinal draft implementation of the jsr329 specification which supports the jsf 1. You have to add the liferay faces bridge jar to your project. Jsf i about the tutorial java server faces jsf is a javabased web application framework intended to simplify development integration of webbased user interfaces. Portlet bridge myfaces portlet bridge apache software. Feb 23, 2016 in this post we will see how to create and deploy jsf liferay portlet on tomcat server. Proposed final draft 2, download page, 17 jul, 2009. He is a member of the jcp and served on both the jsr372 jsf 2.
Liferay faces bridge is a jsr 329 certified portlet bridge which provides the ability to deploy jsf 2. The definition is set in the portlet configuration file portlet. Information about features in the product that have been deprecated or removed in the version 8. This entry was posted on tuesday, july 19th, 2011 at 8. You can visit the maven tutorials to learn how to build plugins using maven. Creating portlets using java server faces 2 and liferay. In this tutorial, youll learn the portlet development. Javaserver faces is a standardized display technology, which was formalized in a specification through the java community process. So where is the bridge in our new guestbook portlet. Do you have the myfaces portlet bridge jars on your classpath. Still there are many topics needs to be included in the list and its first step i have added these topics. Create a page and add the portletized task flow to it. In the portal page we have many portlet we have triggered action in one portlet then all portlet will be executed render method to aggregate dynamic content.
Jul 05, 2014 in this tutorial, we will show you how to integrate the log4j framework with the jsf 2. Liferay faces bridge lets you deploy jsf web apps as portlets without writing portlet specific java code. It is good practice to verify the integrity of the distribution files. Icefaces 2 documentation tutorials icesoft jira issue creation guidelines. Next, all thats left is to download the jboss portlet bridge distribution and cofigure your. Updates to rational application developer for websphere software. So, users are advised to update their ibm rational application developer installations to the latest fix packs. Portlet support in icefaces is provided by thirdparty bridges.
This chapter explains how to use the oracle jsf portlet bridge to expose an application as a portlet this chapter includes the following sections. Apache portals bridges script bridget portlet guide. This chapter explains how to use the oracle jsf portlet bridge to expose an application as a portlet. You will be prompted for a mirror if the file is not found on yours, please be patient, as it may take 24 hours to reach all mirrors. The portlet can produce markup that may depend on the portlet mode or window state, render parameters, request attributes, persistent state, session data, or backend data. In this tutorial, we will show you how to integrate the log4j framework with the jsf 2. The war file you downloaded is precompiled, so theres no need to recompile it. Similar functionality is also available from the apache myfaces portletbridge. In order to write a portlet using jsf a bridge is needed. This guide provides a tutorial for creating a very simple velocity portlet with one template in the portlet view mode. Expose adf task flow as portlet using jsf portlet bridge.
Developing portlets using jsf, ajax, and seam part 1 of 3. The first step is to define the event that will be fired and processed by portlets. The jsf implementation is a serverwide configuration setting on version 8. Liferay faces is an open source umbrella project that provides support for the javaserver faces jsf standard in webapp and portlet projects. Digital experience software tailored to your needs liferay. Youve completed configuring the liferay cdi portlet bridge for you jsf portlet. Troubleshooting jsf portlet deployment errors liferay. Jsf central scott obryan chats about jsf, portlets, and. Im trying to store portlet preferences in a backing bean jsf. Contribute us by commenting below and find downloaded source code. I use maven for building and deploying the portlet in liferay and included the richfaces dependancy like this. The portlet api provides a convenient implementation of this interface, in the form of the javax.
This class handles invocations to your jsf portlet and makes the portlet relying on the liferay faces bridge easier to develop by acting as a turnkey implementation. It looks like you have duplicate jars for jsf on your classpath or some other config issue. Genericportlet class, which among other things, implements the portlet render method to dispatch to abstract modespecific methods to make it easier to support the. The liferay faces bridge subproject is a portlet bridge for jsf that provides the ability to deploy jsf web applications as portlets within liferay portal. There are different types of portlet containers such as apache pluto, oracle web center and liferay.
It talked about jsf portlet bridge, and showed him creating a video of his creating a an application which demonstrated jsf portlet bridge at work. Creating portlets from jsf applications using the oracle jsf. The facelet component tags are prefixed with the bridge. Developing portlets using jsf, ajax, and seam part 3 of 3. Use the links below to download a distribution of apache myfaces portlet bridge from one of our mirrors. Using the create portlet entry dialog, you can configure oracle jsf portlet bridge on a jsf application to expose the application as a jsr 286 portlet. Below steps to follow to make a jsf portlet communication using events. Mar 03, 2009 jsf portlet bridge for dummys today i read an entry from the blog of oracle portal principal product manager peter moskovits, dated from about 9 months ago. Jsf portlet bridge for dummys today i read an entry from the blog of oracle portal principal product manager peter moskovits, dated from about 9 months ago. Developing portlets using jsf, ajax, and seam part 2 of 3. Use the links below to download a distribution of apache myfaces from one of our mirrors. Configuring portlet bridge for javaserver faces ibm knowledge. It also contains innovative features that make it possible to leverage the power of jsf 2. Liferay faces bridge implements the jsr 329 portlet bridge standard.
Ibm rational application developer for websphere software. Use the webcenter portal application aka webcenter spaces to consume the portletized task flow. This chapter describes how to use the oracle jsf portlet bridge to expose a jsf application as a portlet. If you have multiple applications that require different jsf implementations, you must separate the applications into different application servers or clusters. Make sure the include sample code checkbox is checked and the launch new portlet wizard after project is created checkbox is not checked if necessary, and click next. Liferay savvy have prepared liferay 7 development tutorial and the following are concepts which are going to post in liferay savvy. Whichever case is causing your deployment errors, comparing your portlet with a verified jsf portlet example is the most efficient way to find your problem.
Jsf portlet bridge presentations at the jsf summit posted on november 16, 2009 by peter moskovits oracles mike freedman, the spec lead for jsr 301. Look at the jsf example mentioned in the documentation and compare to what you have. There are some prerequisites to properly accomplish this tutorial. Troubleshooting jsf portlet deployment errors liferay help. In this tutorial, youll learn the portlet development process and how to leverage liferay faces bridge s full potential with your jsf portlets.
Finally were building a portletstateaware javaserver faces portlet using the jsfportletbridge mechanism. This isnt as easy as it sound because the jsf lifecycle contains much more phases than the portlet lifecycle. Jboss portlet bridge not only gives you the ability to run jsf web applications in a portlet, but also gives you the benefit. Now they are backward compatible, and of course you can run the portlet 1. Currently, there are a number of jsf portlet bridge implementations including a number that have been open sourced. Moreover, the example, claiming to be a real world example, is implemented using jsf 1. Once portal server successfully started then it will automatically open the browser and we have to complete the basic configuration page. Oracle application development framework adf is the most productive platform for building web applications that. To be able to run a jsf application in a portal context, we need a jsf portlet bridge.
Installing and building gtlab marlon pierce indiana univeristy. Liferay tutorial liferay portal portlet tutorial journaldev. Download and build liferay faces from its project source code. The myfaces portlet bridge project provides implementations of the technology needed to expose a jsf application as a portlet. Im trying to store portlet preferences in a backing bean jsf as mentioned in this tutorial but, i can not understand how they imported preference class here map. A list of the updates that are available for rational application developer for websphere software. Contexts and dependency injection for jsf portlets.
Jboss portlet bridge reference guide jboss community confluence. Look at suns jsf page to learn more about the java specification request 314 jsf 2. This will also give you an empty project to play around with or start from scratch. Liferay faces bridge implements the jsr 329378 portlet bridge standard.
Jsf portlet bridge presentations at the jsf summit peter. The myfaces portlet bridge project provides implementations of the technology needed to expose a jsf application as a portlet within a portlet 2. I believe that primefaces or icefaces also has a jsf portlet bridge implementation. This article covers setting up a richfaces portlet using jboss portlet container and jboss portlet bridge, deploying a richfaces portlet, and richfaces capabilities. Liferay have provided flexibility to develop portlet with different web framework such as jsf, spring. This best location for the logout logic is in the backing file.
It allows any java developer to get started quickly. The jsf portlet bridge posted on july 18, 2008 by peter moskovits when we decided that jsf is going to be the development platform at oracle going forward, it became clear that we need a way to expose jsf applications as portlets. For this tutorial the jboss implementation will be used, but you dont have to install anything as it will be added as a library in your portlet via maven. Creating portlets from jsf applications using the oracle. This technology is defined by the portlet bridge for javaserver faces standards.
The shared internal submodule provides support invisible classes shared between other projects in myfaces land like tomahawk, orchestra and portlet bridge. Portlet introduction portlet technology introduction. Although you can use it to comvert regular jsf pages but it is more suitable for converting adf pages. For a more detailed explanation of the differences between the distributions see portlet bridge versions. Visit the building liferay faces from source tutorial for more information. With the jsr 301 portlet bridge specification, we now have a standard way of running jsf applications as both 1. Aug 19, 2008 this article covers setting up a richfaces portlet using jboss portlet container and jboss portlet bridge, deploying a richfaces portlet, and richfaces capabilities. Creating portlets with the oracle jsf portlet bridge. The oracle jsf portlet bridge enables you to expose a jsf application or task flow as a portlet. If the portlet project has a custom portlet class, these changes are also necessary. Jboss portlet bridge not only gives you the ability to run jsf web applications in a portlet, but.
As far as i know they will only use some core adf libraries because the jsf bridge is not a regular jsf bridge. Using jsr 170 data controls, you can integrate and publish content from disparate. Mar 30, 2017 he has focused on java ee and database driven applications since the early 2000s. Im glad my tutorial could help you out a bit with using java server faces in a jsr168 portlet. The bridge then negotiates the interactions between the two layers. Building jsf portlets peter moskovits oracle webcenter. Creating portlets from jsf applications using the oracle jsf portlet.
Use the most recent version of jsf portlet bridge it is recommended to use the latest version of jsf portlet bridge jar jsfportletbridge. Completed struts portlet war file for download and testing there is also a tutorial on jsf portlet development, along with best practices, and a whole set of jsr168 portlet development tutorials as well. Bridge versions and the platforms they support on liferays download page. Since youll be using the jsf portlet framework, select the jsf 2. This tutorial is intended to provide you a full detailed explanation for getting liferay portal up and running and deploy the same employee registration sample that we had developed in earlier tutorial. The bridge is going to probably have to have a new version for each version of jsf and each version of the portlet. Facesportlet class from the ibm portlet bridge for jsf 2.
Its a good idea to download and deploy the jsf2cdiportlet demo in your development environment in order to verify that cdi functions properly. Javaserver faces jsf applications can be run within an portlet environment with little or no changes using the jsf bridge which provides a jsfportlet ready to be deployed. Portlet development in exo platform with jsf and richfaces. Scriptportlet is the bridge portlet which evaluates the scripted portlet source to initialize a portlet instance and dispatch each invocation to the scripted portlet instance in the portlet descriptor portlet. In this tutorial you will setup eclipse ide projects so that you can edit and compile the struts example webapps that you optionally installed with struts. Recently i have explored the possibilities to integrate a regular jsf 2. It is designed to act as a bridge between a portlet 2. As i saw from the tutorials i have created portlet.