PDK & OC4J Standalone Development Environment

Hello Portal Gurus,
I now seek the knowledge of setting up a development environment where I can register and test portlets. As of now I understand that you need to download and install the OC4J Standalone version. Once OC4J is installed follow the directions to add PDK support. I have registered my portlet provider and viewed the portlet provider's "congradulations page". Since then I have found out that you can test specific pages e.g. (Show, Edit, Help) by editing a properties page and setting the parameter testPageURI to the apporpriate page. The portlet runs fine until I try to set links to other pages in the deployed WAR (using UrlUtils), use PDK objects (PortletRenderRequest is null), and use PDK API's. Is there a way to test indivdual portlets (not providers) like they have in the portlet repository page in Oracle ias. Test the edit mode, show mode, and preview mode etc. I know I can change the testpageURI parameter but PDK functionality (objects, API's) just don't work.
thanks!

Hello Harsha,
I could and have developed and tested my portlets against an Oracle AS Portal instance. Performance becomes a problem when I do remote development. It takes approximately 15 minutes to deploy a portlet via a broadband vpn connection vs. 1 minute when deploying my portlets via a LAN. (A 9 MB upload is slow). If I can develop and test my portlets on my local machine it would greatly reduce the time it takes to complete the development cycle.
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     at com.mot.vla.game.GameManager.getGameDriver(GameManager.java:231)
     at com.mot.vla.game.GameManager.getGameDesc(GameManager.java:77)
     at com.mot.vla.kernel.VlaPlayerKernel.getGameDescription(VlaPlayerKernel.java:147)
     at VlaPlayerKernelRemote_StatefulSessionBeanWrapper24.getGameDescription(VlaPlayerKernelRemote_StatefulSessionBeanWrapper24.java:1039)
     at com.mot.vla.ui.core.CoreServices.getGameDescription(CoreServices.java:677)
     at com.mot.vla.ui.core.CoreEngine.actionDispatcher(CoreEngine.java:163)
     at com.mot.vla.ui.core.CoreEngine.renderDocument(CoreEngine.java:122)
     at com.mot.vla.ui.core.CoreEngine.processRequest(CoreEngine.java:106)
     at com.mot.vla.ui.servlet.RequestHandler.doPost(RequestHandler.java:204)
     at com.mot.vla.ui.servlet.RequestHandler.doGet(RequestHandler.java:179)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:244)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:336)
     at com.evermind.server.http.ResourceFilterChain.doFilter(ResourceFilterChain.java:59)
     at oracle.security.jazn.oc4j.JAZNFilter.doFilter(JAZNFilter.java:283)
     at com.evermind.server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:523)
     at com.evermind.server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:269)
     at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:735)
     at com.evermind.server.http.AJPRequestHandler.run(AJPRequestHandler.java:151)
     at com.evermind.util.ThreadPoolThread.run(ThreadPoolThread.java:64)
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Here are a sample of my code:
the parameters are: url = 199.5.201.102:23791/loto User= admin password:admin id:loto
public GameDriverRemote getGameDriverFromURL(String id, String url,
String user, String password) {
try {
Context context = getInitialContext(url, user, password);
logger.debug("Context Lookup ID="+id);
Object obj = context.lookup(id);
if (obj!=null) {
logger.debug("Context Lookup found :"+id+" Class Name = "+obj.getClass().getName());
GameDriverHome gameDriverHome = (com.mot.vla.game.GameDriverHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(obj, com.mot.vla.game.GameDriverHome.class);
String tt= gameDriverHome.getClass().getName();
logger.debug("Done looking up home =>"+tt);
if (gameDriverHome != null) {
System.out.println("Game (" + id + ") Driver Home Interface Found");
logger.debug("Game (" + id + ") Driver Home Interface Found");
GameDriverRemote gameDriverRemote = (com.mot.vla.game.GameDriverRemote) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(gameDriverHome.create(), com.mot.vla.game.GameDriverRemote.class);
return gameDriverRemote;
catch (Exception e) {
logger.error("Game (" + id + ")Driver Loading Error", e);
return null;
static public Context getInitialContext(String url, String user,
String password) throws Exception {
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
// set the environment properties
System.out.println("Get Initial Context");
logger.debug("Get Initial Context");
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "ormi://"+url);
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, user);
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, password);
env.put("dedicated.connection","true");
try {
// create an initial context using the above environment properties
return (new InitialContext(env));
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Context initializtion error");
e.printStackTrace();
logger.error("Context initializtion error", e);
return null;
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my understanding with IIS & OC4J server is,
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