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Portal Pack 2.0 for NetBeans 6.1 

• Portal-pack-plugin-2_0.zip

         This zip archive contains following plugin modules
Generic Portlet - Plugin to create JSR 168/JSR 286 based generic portlet applications. 
Portal Server Integration Framework - Base framework library for portal server integration.
Osportletcontainer - Plugin to integrate OpenPortal Portlet Container
Visual Portlet Builder - This module enables Portlet developers to rapidly build JSF based portlet application
in NetBeans IDE by dragging and dropping components on the WYSIWYG Visual Editor.This module is dependent on 
"Generic Portlet" and "JSF Portlet Bridge Library" modules.
JSF Portlet Bridge Library - This library module is required by "Visual Portlet Builder" module.

• Plug-in for Sun Java System Portal Server .7.x

        (This is an optional plug-in, can be installed along with other plug-ins available in the above zip archive. 
	 It requires some of the nbm files available in the above zip archive)

• WebSynergy Plug-in (Preview Version)
  

This plug-in provides portlet development and deployment support on  the WebSynergy Server. It requires "Generic Portlet" 
& "Portal Server Integration Framework" modules which are part of the above zip file. This plug-in also works with the 
Liferay Portal Server running on the Glassfish Application Server.

Project WebSynergy also support Cross-Platform Inter-Widget communications and using Portal Pack's Story Board, user 
can easily develop inter-communicating widgets without understanding the underlying details. To use this feature,download 
this Generic Portlet Builder nigtly build . You need to install this nightly build with other required Portal Pack 2.0 
plug-ins.For more details check this blog and screencast.

Portal Pack 2.0 Beta 3 binaries for NetBeans 6.0 & 6.0.1 are avialble here.

Changes in Portal Pack 2.0

In this version there is no separate project type for the Portlet Application. Portal Pack 2.0 supports Portlets through web framework. So a "Portlet Support"
web framework can be added to an existing/new web application. For more information click here.

Installation Instructions

1. Zip Installations

Zip Installations

Please follow below mentioned steps to install Portal Pack plugins in Netbeans 6 M9  IDE

Download the zip file for the Portal Pack Plugins.
Unzip the downloaded zip file to a directory. 
Start the NetBeans IDE 6.1.
Go to Tools > Plugins 
Click on "Downloaded" tab
Click "Add Plugins" Button
Add/Select all extracted *.nbm files and follow the
instructions to install portal pack plugins.