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Improving deployment of WSRP-related artifacts in GateIn

Chris — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:35:17 +0000

As you may know, I am working on WSRP for GateIn. One problem I faced until today in my daily development was that deploying a new version of the WSRP module for testing required re-building GateIn completely, which takes quite a bit of time and has the side effect of also destroying any persisted data. This, in turn, resulted in even more wasted time spent on configuring GateIn so that I could perform my tests (configuring consumers, adding remote portlets to pages, etc).

I decided that I could make that process faster by just replacing the WSRP artifacts in an already built version of GateIn if there hadn’t been any API change in the WSRP module. I present the following script to that effect:

# extract most recent version of WSRP module: only check the first 5 lines of maven-metadata-local.xml and extract value from  tag
export CURRENT_WSRP=`sed -n -e '5 s/.*\(.*\)<\/version>.*/\1/p' $HOME/.m2/repository/org/gatein/wsrp/wsrp-common/maven-metadata-local.xml`
echo Current WSRP version: \'$CURRENT_WSRP\'

# extract which WSRP libs are currently needed by GateIn and replace them with a fresh version from local repository
for lib in `ls $GATEIN_EAR_HOME/lib/wsrp* | sed -n 's/.*\/\(.*\)-'$CURRENT_WSRP'.jar/\1/p'`
do
	echo Copying $lib-$CURRENT_WSRP.jar to $GATEIN_EAR_HOME/lib/
	cp $HOME/.m2/repository/org/gatein/wsrp/$lib/$CURRENT_WSRP/$lib-$CURRENT_WSRP.jar $GATEIN_EAR_HOME/lib/
done

# deal with producer and admin GUI WARs separately as they are put elsewhere and without version name
for war in `ls $GATEIN_EAR_HOME/wsrp* | sed -n 's/.*\/\(.*\).war/\1/p'`
do
	echo Copying $war-$CURRENT_WSRP.war to $GATEIN_EAR_HOME/$war.war
	cp $HOME/.m2/repository/org/gatein/wsrp/$war/$CURRENT_WSRP/$war-$CURRENT_WSRP.war $GATEIN_EAR_HOME/$war.war
done

Note that this script expects that you have a $GATEIN_EAR_HOME variable set, pointing to location of your GateIn EAR. Easy enough (though I had to freshen up my sed-fu ^_^).

Actually, I can also retrieve the current version of the WSRP module by looking at the currently deployed jar files, as follows:

# extract most recent version of WSRP module from existing files
CURRENT_WSRP=`ls $GATEIN_EAR_HOME/lib/wsrp* | sed -n '1 s/.*\/.*-\([0-9]\.[0-9].[0-9]-.*-.*\).jar/\1/p'`

Might be faster that way…

I’ve made more improvements to the code and decided to put it in the SVN of the WSRP module. If you’re interested, you can take a look there.

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GateIn 3.0 CR1 released!

Chris — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:08:44 +0000

Where have I been? Well, mostly working towards releasing GateIn (we just released CR1, by the way, go grab it, put it through the motions and let us know if you find any issues).

We had a nice face to face meeting in Charmey, Switzerland with some of the eXo guys. It was nice to see my co-workers and meet new ones. Lots of good discussions. We even found a way to fit in some fun, which is always good to bind teams. Oh, and we did, of course, get to eat various melted cheese dishes and you can’t really go wrong with that!

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GateIn 3.0.0 Beta 2 released!

Chris — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:15:57 +0000

As some of you may know, JBoss and eXo have decided to merge their portal efforts in an attempt to create the best open-source portal framework out there. This new, best-of-breed portal project is called GateIn.

Integrating both code bases has taken (and still does) a lot of effort from both teams. This has translated in some long hours and little sleep but we’ve just released a new beta version for you to try and enjoy! Apart from lots of improvements and fixes, the big news is, of course, that we now provide the complete source code! Read more about it on the official GateIn blog.

Of course, we’re not done yet so keep watching the blog. You can also follow GateIn on Twitter.

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JBoss Portal 2.7.2 is released!

Chris — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:29:20 +0000

It’s been a couple of really busy weeks at work as we have been ironing out the last couple of issues that we wanted to solve before unleashing JBoss Portal 2.7.2 unto the world!
It’s finally done and 2.6.8 should follow suite soon. I can now re-gather my thoughts and energy towards 2.8 and beyond!
Read more about the release from our fearless leader on the official JBoss Portal blog.

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Ugh, I disappeared again…

Chris — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:53:35 +0000

For some reason, I just haven’t been interested in posting here. I have ideas but just let them slip, for now… In the mean time, go read my latest post on the dearth of open source JSR 168 portlets on JBoss Portal’s official blog.

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JBoss Portal 2.6 is released!

Chris — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:27:55 +0000

Lots of work over the last ten months and there it is: JBoss Portal 2.6.0.GA has been released today! In particular, this includes my work on WSRP which has been significantly beefed-up since our first, base-level support introduced in 2.4. We now support the complete specification (albeit at different profile levels) including the ability to clone, personalize and manage remote portlets and their lifecycle.

Some coverage:

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First post on JBoss Portal’s blog

Chris — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:30:40 +0000

I have finally posted a post on JBoss Portal’s developer blog. It’s a short but sweet opinion piece about how iPhone’s support for full-fledged web browsing and Apple’s SDK stance could be an opportunity for Portal developers.

In other news, we (as in the Portal team) have been busy working on the GA release of JBoss Portal 2.6. This work should bear fruits real soon now and it has lots of new, cool features along with improvements all over. Watch JBoss Portal’s blog for an announcement soon.

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JBoss Portal 2.6 is in alpha…

Chris — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:52:09 +0000

… and ready for your consumption! Most notably, as far as I am concerned, it includes a near-complete implementation of the WSRP 1.0 specification so please give it a try and let me know if you break anything so that I can correct any problem!

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JBoss Portal 2.4 Alpha released!

Chris — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:20:08 +0000

It’s been a couple of busy months and it’s been particularly busy the last couple of weeks but we have released an alpha of the upcoming version of JBoss Portal which, among other numerous improvements, include what I have been working on specifically: support for WSRP!

Oh, yeah, if you want to learn all about it be sure to attend JBoss World in Las Vegas where I’ll be presenting a session on WSRP and JBoss Portal.

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Activating dev mode in JBoss Portal

Chris — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:13:13 +0000

By default, portlet errors are swallowed up by JBoss Portal but you can change that so that errors such as portlet unavailability, etc… are displayed. To achieve such result, you should modify the config.xml file in portal-core.sar/conf so that the properties to show/hide the appropriate errors are to your liking:


    
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