Portal Pack Project

As a set of plug-in(s) for NetBeans (IDE) these modules support full life-cycle of portlet application development inside NetBeans. Using this tool portlet developers can develop, package, deploy and test portlet inside their NetBeans IDE.By automatic code and Deployment Descriptor(henceforth aka "dd") generation, this tool helps developers to develop portlets quickly. It provides a tight integration with portal servers (like Sun Java System Portal Server 7.x, The OpenPortal Portlet Container on java.net)to support deployment and undeployment of portlets on both local and remote server.

  Portal Pack 2.0 is Now Available.                         

Also Available New WebSynergy Plug-in Preview Version. (Supports both WebSynergy and Liferay Portal Server)

Major New Features and Fixes:

• Support for New JSR 286 specification
• Eventing Storyboard for JSR 286 Eventing
• Visual Portlet Builder plugin to build JSF portlet.
  
• Portlet 1.0/2.0 taglib code auto completion
  
• Portlet Filter Support
• Drag & Drop support for Filter Mapping and Public Render Parameters
• Deployment support on OpenPortal Portlet Container 2.0 or Portlet Container 2.0 available with Java Application Platform SDK U5.
• Deployment support on Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2
  

       For more details read this Portal Pack 2.0 Article.

Portal Pack 2.0 plug-ins are also available with JavaEE Tools Bundle Update 5 .

License, Governance and Roles

This project is a subproject of the OpenPortal project and follows the license and governance practices from that project.

Lots more is happening in the Portal Pack like Workflow API Drag & Drop support / CMS API Drag & Drop Support. Watch out this space for the more details in future.

Flash Demos

Check flash demos of Portal Pack portlet plug-in for Sun Java System Portal Server 7.x. Click on the following links to watch online demos

• Flash Demo for Remote Sun Java System Portal Server 7.x configuration in NetBeans 5.5 IDE
• Flash Demo for various features of Portal Pack plug-in.( Portal Server used in this demo is Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1)
• Flash Demo using Portal Pack Plug-ins/NetBeans 5.5 IDE with OpenPortal Portlet Container
• IPC Story Board Screencast  - Contributed By Hemadri Duraiswami
• Flash Demo using Portal Pack plugins/Netbeans 6.0 Beta with OpenPortal Portlet Container

Other Related Links

• OpenPortal Community
  
• Community Wiki for Portal Pack Project
• Portal Post - The Sun Java System Portal Server Product and Technologies Group Weblog

Portal Pack Modules

The followings are the main Portal Pack modules currently available in NetBeans Mercurial repository.

1. portalpack.portlets.genericportlets
   
2. portalpack.jsfportletbridge
3. portalpack.visualweb
4. portalpack.servers.base_psframework
5. portalpack.servers.opensourcepc
6. portalpack.servers.sunps
7. portalpack.saw
   

How to contribute

NetBeans welcomes and appreciates contributions from the NetBeans community in the portal pack area. There are many ways to contribute, including testing the plug-ins, writing HOWTOs and other documentation, contributing patches, enhancing the functionality of the plug-ins, or writing a completely new plug-ins for additional portal servers.

For general information on contributing to NetBeans, please see this page.

 

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