JBoss Portlet Bridge Beta2 Released

Supports:

• JBoss Portal 2.6.4
• Seam 2.0.2.CR1
• RichFaces 3.2.0.GA (with exception of upload component)
• JSF 1.2

This release of the bridge has quite a few bug fixes and enhancements:

• Portlet EL Variable support
• New SeamIdentity Bridge Extension: instant SSO between your Seam application and your JBoss Portal server by a simple dependency in your pom
• RichFaces Maven Archetype
• Removal of PortalStateManager configuration
• More documentation
  

---

EL Variable Support

portletConfig: object of type javax.portlet.PortletConfig

sessionPortletScope: mutable Map containing PortletSession attribute/values at PORTLET_SCOPE.

sessionApplicationScope: mutable Map containing PortletSession attribute/values at APPLICATION_SCOPE.

portletPreferenceValue: immutable Map containing the set of portlet preferences where the key is the name of the preference and the value is the first portlet preference value from the (potential) set of values.

portletPreferenceValues: immutable Map containing the set portlet preferences where the key is the name of the preference and the values are the set of this portlet preference's values.

---

SeamIdentity Bridge ExtensionJust add the following dependency to your JBoss Seam (Maven) project for SSO between JBoss Portal and Seam applications.

<dependency>
<groupid>org.jboss.portletbridge.extension.seam</groupid>
<artifactid>PortalIdentity</artifactid>
<version>1.0.0.B2</version>
</dependency>

RichFaces Maven Archetype
This is the new Beta2 release of the RichFaces archetype - only a few settings are different from the previous snapshot release.

mvn archetype:create
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.jboss.portletbridge.archetypes
-DarchetypeArtifactId=richfaces-basic
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0.B2
-DgroupId=org.whatever.project
-DartifactId=myprojectname
-DremoteRepositories=http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/

---

Removal of PortalStateManager configuration
The following is no longer needed in the faces-config.xml

 <state-manager>
org.jboss.portletbridge.application.PortalStateManager
</state-manager> 

Visit the Portlet Bridge project page for more details.

RichFaces Portlet Archetype

I just finished creating a Maven archetype for the RichFaces portlet using the JBoss Portlet Bridge. An archetype basically gives you a empty project shell with all of the proper config files and package names that are custom to your project. It comes packaged with a simple demo of the RichFaces ajax repeater code.

From the command line run:

mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.jboss.portletbridge.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=richfaces-basic
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0-SNAPSHOT -DgroupId=org.whatever.project -DartifactId=myprojectname
-DremoteRepositories=http://snapshots.jboss.org/maven2/

Navigate to the newly created project folder and run mvn install - now you are ready to deploy the war file located in the target directory.

JBoss Portlet Bridge 1.0.0 Beta Released!

Thanks to the collaboration of the JBoss RichFaces, Seam and Portal teams, we are happy to announce an initial beta release of JBoss Portlet Bridge.
The JBoss Portlet Bridge is an implementation of the JSR-301 specification to support JSF within a portlet and with added enhancements to support other web frameworks. Currently the bridge supports any combination of JSF, Seam, and RichFaces to run inside a portlet.

The following is supported with JBoss Portlet Bridge 1.0.0.B1

• JBoss Portal 2.6.4
• JBoss Seam 2.1.0.A1
• RichFaces 3.1.4.SR1

Download

• You can download the portlet bridge binaries here, which contain the required jars along with a deployable EAR file. The EAR is the Seam Booking Demo which uses both RichFaces and Seam.

Deploy

• copy the ear file from example/seamEar.ear to JBoss_Home/server/default/deploy and start the server.

Test Drive

• You should see a SeamBooking tab with the official JBoss Seam Booking Demo.

Setup and Configuration

• Check out the configuration examples here.

Live Demo

• The Seam Booking and RichFaces component demos can be viewed here.

All information to get up and running with configuration options for any combination of the frameworks mentioned above can be found on the wiki.