Portal Application deployment problem to Managed Web Server

Question

I'm trying to deploy an ADF application using JSR168 portlets to a Managed Web Server on WebCenter 11g and I'm getting the following error in the log file after running the portal.jsp (I get 'Portlet unavailable' on the browser page):
oracle.adf.model.portlet.binding.PortletBindingException: The metadata for portlet binding TasksPortlet1_1 was not found in MDS.
When I deploy the application from JDeveloper to the Managed Web Server I get the following error (The application does deploy successfully):
Error during portlet export. Portlets will not be available in the target application. Context: input mds repository file path = C:\JDeveloper\mywork\Mindflow\mds. output mds repository file path = C:\JDeveloper\mywork\Mindflow\.mdsExport. input connections file path and name = /C:/JDeveloper/mywork/Mindflow/.adf/META-INF/connections.xml. export ID = /oracle/adf/portlet/export. producer/portlet IDs to export: [oracle/adf/portlet/MindFlowWsrpPortletProducer].
However if I right-click on the portal.jsp page and select Run from JDeveloper and run it within the Integrated WLS it does run fine there.
Is there something special that needs to be set for the Deployment on either the application or project? Or is there something that needs to be setup via the web-based Adminstrative Console (I have verified that the MindFlowWsrpPortletProducer is registered on the Admin console)?
Thanks,
Randy Skold

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply ... here is the answer to your questions along with an update to some more information after trying something different
Did you deploy the WebCenter Managed server from Jdeveloper
I am deploying the application to the WebCenter Managed server from JDeveloper.
What managed server did you deploy it to - a custom server that you created?
Yes this is a custom Managed Server (called MindFlow). At the time of your response the only two servers up and running on WebCenter was the AdminServer and MindFlow.
Did the deployment go through?
Yes
Are there any errors in the managed server log when you access the page?
Yes these where the errors showing that it could not connect with the metadata via the repositories.
Now for the update:
I went ahead and started up the WLS_Portlet managed server that comes with WebCenter. When I did this I got the following error:
WSM-04509: cannot initialize the connection to the data store
I then deployed the Portlet Producer Application to the WLS_Portlet from JDeveloper. I then grabbed the url for the newly created portlet producer and updated the connection on the Portal application. After doing this and updating the portal.jspx file, I then deployed the Portal application to the MindFlow managed web server. I then brought up the portal.jspx page via a browser and was able to bring back results. The only issue now is that while doing this I got multiple MDS errors (including the initialize error above) and not sure if I can ignore these or not. One of the errors received was as follows:
oracle.mds.exception.MDSException: MDS-01258: The value @MDS_CLASS for property class-name is invalid.