Can I Write Portlets Using ColdFusion?

Question

Can I write 5.04 Portlets using ColdFusion MX ? What issues would I run into?

Answer 1

As I mentioned before, you will need the Java EDK from Plumtree and CFMX. Extract the openfoundation.jar and edk.jar files from the Java EDK. Then add the paths to these files to your Java Class path under the CFMX Admin (Java and JVM). My class path looks something like this:
D:\CFusionMX\cfx\java,D:\CFusionMX\lib\cfx.jar,D:\plumtree\ptedk\5.1\java\devkit\WEB-INF\lib\edk.jar,D:\plumtree\ptedk\5.1\java\devkit\WEB-INF\lib\openfoundation.jar,
With that done, you should be all set to utilize the Java EDK from within your CFMX app. Some code that I just cut from one of my examples is as follows:
<!--- load the CommunityAccessLevel and PortletContextFactory objects ---><cfobject action="create" type="java" class="com.plumtree.remote.portlet.CommunityAccessLevel" name="CommunityAccessLevel"><cfobject action="create" type="java" class="com.plumtree.remote.portlet.PortletContextFactory" name="PortletContextFactory"><!--- get a javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest object from CFMX ---><cfset req = getPageContext().getRequest()> <!--- get a javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse object from CFMX ---><cfset res = getPageContext().getResponse()> <!--- declare portletContext object ---><cfset context = PortletContextFactory.createPortletContext(req, res)> <!--- get the portlet request ---><cfset portletReq = context.getRequest()> <!--- get the portlet user ---><cfset portletUser = context.getUser()><!--- get the current portlet ID ---><cfset portletID = portletReq.getPortletID()><!--- does the current user have admin rights to the current community? ---><cfif CommunityAccessLevel.Admin EQ portletUser.getCurrentCommunityAccessLevel()> ...
A lot of this code is out of examples on the developers site for the Java EDK. Most of it converts line by line pretty easily once you have things setup.
Hopefully this will help.-- Jeff