How to deploy my .WAR as a portlet, not a new page.

Question

Hi,
I already know how to deploy my war file in the Portal. But How can I deploy it as a portlet?
I have tried deploy a simple helloworld.jsp into sample provider. And it works. But when I try to create a new provider (which already config .properties , and provider.xml file). It always gives me "404 Not found" error.
Oracle support said it must be something wrong with setting problem. But we havn't solve this problem yet.
Can anyone give me a help or advice?
help~~~~ please

Answer 1

hi Harsha,
Thanks for help.
I post my instruction to deploye my war file. It was from Oracle support. But it still doesn't work well.
Could you check?
Thanks a lot
1.Go to the Middletier ORACLE_HOME
2.Go to ORACLE_HOME\j2ee\OC4J_Portal\applications\jpdk\jpdk\htdocs\
3.Create a folder called test
4.Copy your jsp files under this "test" folder
5.Go to ORACLE_HOME\j2ee\OC4J_Portal\applications\jpdk\jpdk\WEB-INF\deployment
6.Copy the file sample.properties which is there to a file called test.properties
7.Edit test.properties and make the following changes:
serviceClass=oracle.webdb.provider.v2.adapter.soapV1.ProviderAdapter
loaderClass=oracle.portal.provider.v2.http.DefaultProviderLoader
showTestPage=true
definition=providers/test/provider.xml
autoReload=true
testPageURI=/htdocs/testpage/TestPage.jsp
8.Go to ORACLE_HOME\j2ee\OC4J_Portal\applications\jpdk\jpdk\WEB-INF\providers
9.Create a folder called test
10.Create a file called provider.xml and put the contents as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<?providerDefinition version="3.1"?>
<provider class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.DefaultProviderDefinition">
<localePersonalizationLevel>none</localePersonalizationLevel>
<session>true</session>
<defaultLocale>en</defaultLocale>
<preferenceStore class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.preference.FilePreferenceSt
ore">
<name>prefStore1</name>
<useHashing>true</useHashing>
</preferenceStore>
<portlet class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.DefaultPortletDefinition">
<id>1</id>
<name>MyJsp</name>
<title>MyJsp</title>
<shortTitle>MyJsp</shortTitle>
<description>This portlet is a sample implemented by Me.</description>
<timeout>40</timeout>
<timeoutMessage>MyJsp timed out</timeoutMessage>
<showEdit>false</showEdit>
<showEditDefault>false</showEditDefault>
<showPreview>false</showPreview>
<showDetails>false</showDetails>
<hasHelp>false</hasHelp>
<hasAbout>false</hasAbout>
<acceptContentType>text/html</acceptContentType>
<renderer class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.RenderManager">
<renderContainer>true</renderContainer>
<contentType>text/html</contentType>
<showPage>/htdocs/test/test.jsp</showPage>
</renderer>
</portlet>
<portlet class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.DefaultPortletDefinition">
<id>2</id>
<name>MyJsp2</name>
<title>MyJsp2</title>
<shortTitle>MyJsp2</shortTitle>
<description>This portlet is a sample implemented by Me.</description>
<timeout>40</timeout>
<timeoutMessage>MyJsp2 timed out</timeoutMessage>
<showEdit>false</showEdit>
<showEditDefault>false</showEditDefault>
<showPreview>false</showPreview>
<showDetails>false</showDetails>
<hasHelp>false</hasHelp>
<hasAbout>false</hasAbout>
<acceptContentType>text/html</acceptContentType>
<renderer class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.RenderManager">
<renderContainer>true</renderContainer>
<contentType>text/html</contentType>
<showPage>/htdocs/test/test1.jsp</showPage>
</renderer>
</portlet>
</provider>
11.In the above change the name of the jsp files from test.jsp and test1.jsp to whatever the name of your jsp file is
12.Test that the following provider test page comes up:
http://midtier:port/jpdk/providers/test
(It should show the name of the 2 portlets above)
13.If there is a 500 Internal server error, restart OC4J_Portal and try again
14.Once you get the test page above, go to Portal and register the provider.
Give the URL as http://midtier:port/jpdk/providers
and the Service Id as urn:test
15.Add the portlet to the page.