Creating Portal Books and Pages dynamically

Question

How do i create Portal Books Dynamically from a backingfile (preRender Method). And still be able to dynamically embed a portlet instance on each page created.
very urgrent

Answer 1

Hello,
You would want t use the methods available on the BookDefinitionManager and PageDefinitionManager EJBs to add a new book or page definition. then use the methods from the IPageInstanceManager and IBookInstanceManager interfaces implemented by the PortalCustomizationManager EJB to add the book / page under an existing book / page / desktop.
For the javadoc for all of these EJBs, see:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13155_01/wlp/docs103/javadoc/com/bea/netuix/application/manager/persistence/package-summary.html
Then, to access the EJB in your code, you can do the following (this example is for PageDefinitionManager, but it would be similar to all the other EJBs):
import com.bea.netuix.application.manager.persistence.PageDefinitionManagerHome;
import com.bea.netuix.application.manager.IPageDefinitionManager;
import com.bea.p13n.management.ApplicationHelper;
import com.bea.netuix.application.manager.CustomizationContext;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
// Access the PageDefinitionManager EJB
InitialContext context = new InitialContext();
String lookupName = PageDefinitionManagerHome.LOOKUP_NAME;
String applicationName = ApplicationHelper.getVersionedAppName();
if((applicationName != null) && (applicationName.length() > 0))
lookupName = applicationName + "." + lookupName;
Object home = context.lookup(lookupName);
home = PortableRemoteObject.narrow(home, PageDefinitionManagerHome.class)
IPageDefinitionManager pageManager = ((PageDefinitionManagerHome)home).create();
Kevin