Adding a Weblogic Portal from source control

Question

I am using Weblogic Portal 10.3.2 and Eclipse 3.5.0. I can successfully create the EAR and portal projects, deploy them, etc. No problem. If I try to copy the projects to another computer or check them into a source control system and check them out on another computer I get the
"Portal Application Services web application should be associated with a Portal Application Services EAR for proper deployment"
and
"A WebLogic Portal web application project should be added as a J2EE module to a WebLogic Portal EAR project for proper deployment" error messages.
I did a directory comparison between a portal project that does work and one that doesn't; they are identical. The only thing I can think of is the ".metadata" directory is different, but this is huge, 1000s of files, over 100 MB.
Has anyone seen this? Any idea of what the problem may be?

Answer 1

Hi
The reason for this error is most probably the portalEAR project is not associated wtih the portalWeb project. For any portal application, we must have a portalEAR and a portalWeb project and portalWeb project should be associated with that portalEAR project.
For your existing and original working portal application, check the .project file in textpad located at: ...\user_projects\workspaces\Your_Workspace\yourPortalEAR\.project. The top contents will be like this:
<name>myPortalEAR</name>
<comment></comment>
<projects>
     <project>myPortalWeb</project>
</projects>Once you checked out and added them to the new machine and new workspace, check the same file. If not, after importing from CVS or source control, open both portalEAR and portalWAR in Workshop IDE. Select your portalEAR, right click mouse -> Select Properties -> From properties window on left side, select J2EE Module Dependencies and on right side check the check box corresponding to the portalWeb module. NOW you may need to do this everytime.
Usually this is what I do, if I want other team members to get my portalApplication (EAR, WAR and DataSync project) or to check into source control. I DO NOT check-in or Export individual modules. Instead I Export them as single Archive File.
From Workshop IDE, on left side right click -> Export -> From Export Window, Expand General -> Archive File -> Click on Next. In this window, select all the 3 projects on top left window ie. EAR, WAR and DataSync (if you have one). Then give a valid filename for this ZIP file something like myPortalEARZip.zip etc. Then click on Finish. This will create a big single ZIP file. NOW you can checkin this ZIP file or give to other team members.
Now other team members will open Workshop IDE. Left side rigjht click mouse, select Import -> From Import Window, Expand General -> Existing Projects Into Workspace -> Click Next -> Select the radio button named Select Archive File and hit Browse and choose the above .zip file. It should list out the exising projects from this zip file. NOW mostly you may have to delete the exising same projects from this Workspace before you Import. Then follow the steps and you should get all the projects into your workspace. Do clean build etc.
There may be some other simpler approach, but usually I follow the above proceedure. If you want to continue your existing procedure, then manually link portalEAR with portalWeb project.
Thanks
Ravi Jegga