ColdFusion and Portal Development (Portlet Toolkit)

I realize the Portlet Toolkit released was just a proof of
concept, but I was wondering if anyone has actually uses it for
ongoing development. I was able to deploy and run the example
Portlets on a IBM Portal v6 instance without any issues (since
IBM's api's are only deprecated), but I can't figure out how the
development process would work.
To deploy the toolkit war you had to use an Ant script to
merge it with the ColdFusion MX 7 war. Given this how would you
ever hot deploy and develop in iterations as you normally do today
with CF development alone? Would you manually deploy an extracted
version of this merged WAR and edit the CFCs on the DEV server
itself? Normal portlet development relies on the RAD tool to hot
deploy changes in the portlet project to the Portal server so you
can code and test with as little interruption as possible.
If editing the cfcs on the DEV server itself is the only way
to develop this seems to make development impractical with CF.
Especially if you can't just map a drive out to the DEV server. I'm
new to Portlet development but can't see a way to resolve this
circumstance. Am I missing something? Any suggestions? Any other
thoughts on the concept in general? We have large number of
in-house CF developers which far exceed the number of Java Portlet
developers and this might be a way to alleviate that problem (at
least in the short run).
-Tim

I've been using the Portlet tool kit for quite a while. I run
websphere test server right on my desk top and I manually deploy my
cfc to there. When the devlopment is done, I place my new cfc in to
cfportlet.war file and update the portlet through WS.

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Coldfusion and Livecycle development

Being a (intermediate) Coldfusion developer - addressing SQl and CF queries to an ODBC database (Access) and using Livecycle Designer ES for the first time (Acrobat 9 Pro)... I'm trying to plan the best way to fuse these programs together for a project I'm working on. I'm not fluent with Javascript but can somewhat 'backwards engineer' a script. Not being fluent in Javascript makes me a bit hesitant to even use Livecycle forms in the first place - I'm more used to doing all this with CF and SQL on an internet server...
A couple of the main reasons I'd like to use Livecycle are - the ability to set up some of the forms to run client-side and using a security (ID) key for form submissions back to the server (as well as the capability to 'hash' the data back to the server with encryption). Security features within the PDF invironment are what attracts me to Livecycle forms as well as user interactivity in building the form client-side, as in expanding forms and fields or buttons being visible or hidden depending on the user's choice.
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So... Providing that I don't have to become a JavaScript guru, the following is the 'meat' of this posting - a scenario in (wondering how to get) Livecycle, Coldfusion, SQL, XML and Access all working together:
Livecycle forms set up with an XSD schema provided from Access (the schema within the saved form as a PDF Dynamic XML form) / On validated form completion by the user (client-side) the submit button, after user Key entered, submits to a Cold Fusion (hidden) action page on the server containing CF and/or SQL database insertions, updates, etc. that, after the queries run, 'bounces' the user to another client-side PDF.
Would this scenario work? Am I thinking right on this in mixing Livecycle data with Coldfusion and SQL in this way?
I'm not sure how a CF action page would deal with the data coming into it encrypted (maybe with setting variables) or if the CF action page retains the security set by the PDF page before it bounces the user back to his/her client-side Acrobat Reader... as well as running queries from a CF action page that pulls data from the database and sends back to the user's next PDF as encrypted data.
Also, I'm not sure how the Access generated XML schema treats fields in the database that have a space in the field name, as in a field named "First Name". Some of my table fields are to be updated with an uploaded delimited text file coming from (admin permitted) users - my table fields Have to be set up in Access to match the user's field names. Field names that are merged together in the XML schema wouldn't match up when sent back to the database although I guess you could set variables for this as well on a CF action page.
Should I just forget using Coldfusion and try to do this all through direct database insertion and form filling through the Livecycle PDF forms? (And purchase a JavaScript book to learn yet another language before deadline time?)
In not knowing JavaSript, I'm having a bit of a mental block in learning Livecycle. I had hoped that the JavaScript would be written as you set up button properties, assigned on-click events, structered the subform heirarchy and so on and then, in Livecycle's scriptwriter assign an 'initialize' or 'click' and a function from the "fn" button (that only offers a few choices). I really need to know how to write Javascript myself, don't I? (This is probably obvious to all - "yes, dummy, you need to know how to write JavaScript for Livecycle.) I guess I'm missing something in the help files and tutorials... You can sure tell I'm self taught, huh...
I would do this all with just CF anyhow with application files and session management with cookies and so on but with security concerns it seems PDFs can easily enough be set up in a pretty secure environment. The PDF security as well as client-side user interaction with dynamic PDFs are what attracts me to Livecycle PDFs. There's not too much of a learning curve for building Livecycle PDF forms except for having to learn JavaScript with a deadlined current project maybe being too much for me.
Livecycle or Coldfusion or both programs together? Especially for the security concerns. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info on CF and Livecycle running together - at Adobe or with googling - at least not on a novice or intermediate level.
Anyone's thoughts or comments on this? I'll post this in the Coldfusion forum as well if y'all think it may benefit forum users there as well.
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- es
[email protected]

I've been using the Portlet tool kit for quite a while. I run
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Eclipse and Portal Development.....?

I am new in Eclipse (3.0) environment and i wondering if anyone knows how I can develop and test/debug portlets using Eclipse? Is there a way to develop and test within Eclipse or i need to pass them in my portlet
container for run?
Any details, suggestions, instructions are very appreciated!
Thanks in advance
Baggett
P.S: I know about NetWeaver, but I see the new Eclipse 3.0 and wondering how I can use it to develop portlets in general, regardless of portal server.
Message was edited by: Baggett Soran

Hi,
This article may be useful to you.
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Portal development requirements and basics??

helo everyone,
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1)What are the technical requirements to develop portals with PDK?
2)Is that a compulsion that we need Oracle 9iAS installed if we have to develop portals?
3)And in which technologies(like JSP,EJB etc) do we required to have good knowledge before developing web portals?
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I kindly request you to answer my questions,,PLEASE:
with regards,
[email protected]

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NetWeaver Development Studio and Portal Plugin

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I just installed netWeaver Developer studio 2.0.3. It does not have a portal plugin . I was under the impression that it comes with PDK and Plugin , so that I can develop Java Iviews.
Do I have to install Portal plugin in netWeaver studio to develop Java iviews.
Is there any other version of Developer studio which comes with portal plugin.
What about PDK ?? Does it come with Developer studio 2.0.3.
I had problems before with Eclipse 3.0 and Portal plugin for EP6 SP2. Do I have the same problem with any version of developer studio or If i just install plugin for EP6 i will able to develop java iview.
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TEP15 SAP Enterprise Portal and KMC Development Book Required.

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can someone please let me know where i can download book "<b>TEP15</b> - SAP Enterprise Portal and KMC Development" from?
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@ngsankar @Nasir thanks for Reply
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Hello, I've been trying to build a dynamic menu. First I went with just plain old plsql: i created a function in the portal schema that returns an unordered, nested list of the pages in my pagegroup and called that function in a regular pl/sql item on my portal page. I did this by querying the wwpob_page$ table and that went just great in my test&development setup (of which I am the admin of course :))
Then I realized that since I'm not an administrator of the server hosting our portal and I only have very limited privileges (I am only a page group administrator) I will probably not be allowed to utilize this function nor will they agree to install it in the portal schema, and I decided I should build a portlet that does the same thing (so it can be registered and so on, and so it can use the synonyms and tools that are available to registered providers). There already is such a portlet (and provider) registered for use in the target portal, but I don't like it because i uses tables and hard-coded styles so I will cook my own, better version. :)
So I downloaded an example portlet and am getting the hang of it, but now I just can't for the life of me figure out how to enable any sql-queries. I have run the provsyns-.sql script, logged in as test_provider/portal and installed my portlet-package as test_provider user. I can see the available pl/sql packages in Toad, but there are no tables or views for me to to see. That means I can't query the portal tables that I need to.
edit: ok, stupid user error; I suck at using Toad, so I was looking at the wrong schema altogether :D So now i see the public views and packages, so forget that bit of the question.
But still, I cannot see even wwsbr_all_folders -view, much less the wwpob_page$ -table. I cannot see any way to find the pages that are in my page group. Somehow it must be doable, right?
Have I done something wrong, missed a step in enabling my test-provider / schema perhaps? I don't really know what I'm doing, but I followed instructions here: http://home.c2i.net/toreingolf/oracle/portal/my_first_plsql_portlet.htm (excellent instructions, thanks!)
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Edited by: Baguette on 23-Apr-2009 05:13
Edited by: Baguette on 23-Apr-2009 05:32

i see your perspective now. and let me give a perspective to my first reply too.
what i proposed to you was the answer of what i quoted in the message. that is, why didn't you see those views in the new schema you created! and it is still ok but it is done in the portal schema for which you should have privielges too and i assumed you had. my mistake!
now, i can relate your privacy concerns with your earlier message:
Hello, I've been trying to build a dynamic menu. First I went with just plain old plsql: i created a function in the portal schema that returns an unordered, nested list of the pages in my pagegroup and called that function in a regular pl/sql item on my portal page. I did this by querying the wwpob_page$ table and that went just great in my test&development setup (of which I am the admin of course :))
+Then I realized that since I'm not an administrator of the server hosting our portal and I only have very limited privileges (I am only a page group administrator) I will probably not be allowed to utilize this function nor will they agree to install it in the portal schema, and I decided I should build a portlet that does the same thing (so it can be registered and so on, and so it can use the synonyms and tools that are available to registered providers). There already is such a portlet (and provider) registered for use in the target portal, but I don't like it because i uses tables and hard-coded styles so I will cook my own, better version. :)+
+So I downloaded an example portlet and am getting the hang of it, but now I just can't for the life of me figure out how to enable any sql-queries. I have run the provsyns-.sql script, logged in as test_provider/portal and installed my portlet-package as test_provider user. I can see the available pl/sql packages in Toad, but there are no tables or views for me to to see. That means I can't query the portal tables that I need to.+
- by downloading an example portlet, you probably mean you created a new schema. because provsyns work on a schema.
- if you are not the administrator of the portal, and may not be able to access some portions of the portal, it means that you do not use the portal user (the user which serves as the owner of the portal schema).
- now, your plan to create a new schema and give those privielges would still not work. because, by creating a new schema you cannot sneak in to the oriignal portal schema if you do not have privileges to do it. obvious, right? otherwise, it would be a vulnerability of the software that you can see what you are not allowed to see by creating a new schema.
- however, there is a bright side here. the views give records based on your privileges.
- so if your administrators have generated them already or if they generate on the original portal schema, then you may see the pages and items that you have privileges to see and no more.
so now, you may ask the administrators if they have already done it, and if not, then if they would be willing to do it.
hope that helps!
AMN

Errors using themes and tomahawk within portlets

I've been developing a portlet using Creator2 Update 1 that uses the myfaces tomahawk library of components. Besides the difficulty of not being able to use the visual designer, I've managed to get my portlet functioning the way I want.
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In short, I am baffled. Creator-provided themes work regardless of tomahawk components present. My own themes work so long as there aren't tomahawk components present.

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