Remote portlets and their dependencies

Can we access dependencies in remote portlets which are deployed onto a simple producer?
How CSS and JS are sent to the consumer?
Thanks

Simple producers cannot use any WebLogic Portal specific features, like look and feel. See the document "Simple Producers": http://download-llnw.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13155_01/wlp/docs103/federation/Chap-Details.html#wp1028331
A complex producer knows what WebLogic Portal look and feels are. See the document "Complex Producers": http://download-llnw.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13155_01/wlp/docs103/federation/Chap-Details.html#wp1021335
I'm no WSRP expert but I have used render dependencies on a remote portlet. If I remember correctly, the URL for the dependencies that the consumer ends up using is a resource URL that is proxied back to the producer. I looks like any other WSRP resource URL.

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Good Morning, i'm working with Oracle WLP 10.3.4 and i have a problem with Default Minimized Property for a Remote Portlet.
I set this property to true for a portlet and if i run it in a local environment this portlet show, correctly, itself minimized.
When i use the same portlet like "remote portlet" -configuring the producer from the administration console- it is not minimized.
There is no way, for a remote portlet, to show itself minimized by default?
Thanks
Alessio

Hello,
Many thanks for this quick feedback. It does work.
We were configuring our producers & portlets directly through WLP admin console : we were expecting WLP to recognize automatically this "defaultMinimized" flag from the remote portlet and configure the proxy portlet with this flag set as same. It is indeed not the case, so we did as follows :
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Hi All,
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Plumtree.Remote.Portlet.NotGatewayedException: Request not gatewayed

Hi,
Iam getting a error like "Plumtree.Remote.Portlet.NotGatewayedException: Request not gatewayed" when iam trying to remotely connect to Oracle web services from .Net code.
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Render Dependencies Issue in JSF Remote Portlet

Hi All,
Am facing one issue while Rendering Dependencies (JS and CSS)
from a Remote Page (in Consumer) which contains a JSF Portlet in Producer.
I created a JSF Portlet and added the "home.dependencies" in Render Dependencies Path
in producer.
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Then in consumer I created a remote page which access the "Sample.page" in producer
and added it to the portal.
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<head>
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on checking the view source, then dependencies rendered in the head section of the portal
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<window
xmlns="http://www.bea.com/servers/portal/framework/laf/1.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/servers/portal/framework/laf/1.0.0 laf-window-1_0_0.xsd">
<render-dependencies>
<html>
<links>
<link href="home.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>
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<scripts>
<script src="homeJobs.js" type="text/javascript"/>
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</scripts>
</html>
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</window>
Is there any configuration am missing for rendering the dependencies with
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Thanks in Advance,
Senthil.
Edited by: Senthil on Jan 9, 2012 11:16 PM

No idea about jsptags.com's pager tag, but consider creating your own request based paging implementation.
It is in fact simple. Add a request parameter representing the index of the first row to be displayed. Add a second parameter or less or more hardcoded setting representing the amount of rows to be displayed at once. On next, just add the one with the other. On previous just substract the one from the other. Use those parameters to obtain a sublist from the collection, or to fire a query which returns a subset of results. As you're using JSF, you may get some useful ideas out of this: [http://balusc.blogspot.com/2008/10/effective-datatable-paging-and-sorting.html].

Communication betwen portlets and remote portlets

Hello,
How can I pass parameters to remote portlet from local portlet?
For example, I add a remote portlet to the portla, some of the parameters set in the JSP portlets must be retrieval from the remote portlet, how to pass them to the remote portlet ?
HttpSession ?
HttpRequest ?
RenderRequest ?

There are two ways to do this (a) Inter-portlet communication, or (b)
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HttpSession ?
HttpRequest ?
RenderRequest ?

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xmlns:s="http://www.backbase.com/s"
>
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Timeout during a remote portlet request

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We ask me to prevent a communication leak during a wsrp communication between me (the consumer) and a producer.
I have seen this parameter that can be add to my wsrp-producer-registry.xml :
connection-establishment-timeout-msecs
connection-timeout-msecs
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Yo.

In G6, we have provided a way for a remote portlet to grab the parameters from the URL. If you go to the user info page for the web service, you will see a new option: "Host Page URL Query String". If you check that box, the remote tier will get the full query string, as typed into the browser, as a user info parameter. You can then parse that query string and get any additional arguments that you have passed in.
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Locate AppDataObject file, which should be in portaluiinfrastructure.statichelpers package. Find this function:
public static IPTState GetAppDataObject(int iCommunityID, int iPageID, int iGWParams, String strHostPageURI, AActivitySpace asOwner, boolean bResolveSecureBase)
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Build and deploy a new portaluiinfrastructure.jar/dll according to instructions published on the dev center.
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JDeveloper project libraries and Maven dependencies

hi
Using the Apache Trinidad Maven JDev Plugin, I am wondering how JDeveloper project libraries and Maven dependencies are supposed to be related (or "matched", or "kept in sync", or "work together", or ...).
With the Maven settings.xml configured like this ...
<settings>

<localRepository>C:\my-maven-repository</localRepository>

</settings>... I tried this ...
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Maven version: 2.0.9
Java version: 1.6.0_05
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[INFO] artifact org.apache.myfaces.trinidadbuild:maven-jdev-plugin: checking for updates from central
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2K downloaded
[INFO] [jdev:jdev]
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many thanks
Jan Vervecken

Hi Jan,
Yes, some of the current approach is not ideal.
+"Maven's primary goal is to allow a developer to comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time."+ - By having the pom.xml define for the project, I get the ability to run site goals, junit tests and other maven reports - get a feel for the project state. Even with a very basic pom.xml file containing the groupId, ArtifactId, version, SVN repository definition and the release plugin you gain the ability to use "mvn release:clean release:prepare" to help with tagging the source in SVN. These represent progress as up to this point the team has not had access to this.
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Note, that the maven plugin development for the managing of these aspects should be easier with JDeveloper 11.1.1 and the integrated WLS.
Have you used this approach in a project that uses ADF Business Components? - Yes, I have used it on one of the smaller ADF projects that had already been produced by the team. This project has all the maven features and ability to deploy to the remotes AS via ant scripts. The approach worked in both the dev and test environments. However, for final deployment, I still used the deployment profile to be consistent with the rest of the team.
Regards,
Graeme.

Remote portlet

Hi..
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I assume that this has something to do with url templates, but i've tried a lot of things but i can't get it to work.
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This is the original codeline:
img src="/myPortal/img/trans.gif"
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I also tried <netui:image src="/myPortal/img/trans.gif" and that worked, but when i read articles on the net, it seems to me that it should have been working with render tags ass well. What am i doing wrong, can somebody help me.. Please..

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hi,
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http://edocs.bea.com/wlp/docs81/wsrp/custxfer.html
-sampath

A mini review of FiOS TV and their new QIP-7232 DVR

FiOS TV picture quality is stunning. No compression artifacts at all from what I can tell.
The 7232 is pretty good but not excellent. I have the 7232 and a Tivo HD XL. IMHO the Tivo is considerably better but I see lots of room for improvement with the 7232.
Pros and Cons of the 7232.
Remote
Nice and responsive. Like that I can turn the TV on and off. Doesn't allow for channel changing just input changing. Not a massive issue but a shame as we need another remote.
It's probably difficult to update, but I find the remote a bit too complicated and the buttons poorly positioned. Shame more buttons don't light up to help find buttons when the room is dark.
Guide
I may have missed it but it would be great if it remembered your favorite settings. I see the favorite button but IMO the guide button should take you there directly.
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Almost excellent but unfortunately titles are cropped when they go beyond 30 or so characters. They should allow wrapping to a second line to allow 60 or so characters.
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I'm noticing some weird information on some shows. English soccer is particularly bad. For example, today's showing of Arsenal versus Blackburn has a title of The Gunners (Arsenal) rallied for a 2-2 draw with West Ham on March 19. So the title describes Arsenal's previous result. Quite confusing.
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Verizon FiOS TV, Internet, and phone
QIP6416-P1, IMG 1.8, Build 02.54
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Apple Remote Desktop and controlling over VPN

Hi All,
I had a question about whether something was possible and if so if someone could point me to instructions/how-to on setting it up.
I have three Macs I am administering. One is an iMac that stays in the office on the network. Two are MBP's. One is always at a remote location, the other comes in and out of the office. I work remotely administering the server and the three systems. I have the latest version of Apple Remote Desktop and obviously can access the server fine. I was wondering though if there is any way besides having the person give me their IP address every time that through the VPN I can see their system, then access it in Remote Desktop just like we are on the network together? Basically they connect to the network via VPN if they are remote and I do the same thing and then access their machine.
I hope that makes sense. I went through different parts of the guide for ARD but didn't come across a method like that described in there.
Anyone with opinions? Thoughts? Chants of I'm an idiot? haha
Thanks

Yeah for some reason I cannot get this to work right. Even if I scan the 5 VPN IP's I have setup I cannot see their machines when I am connected to the VPN. I tested it the other day by connecting one of the systems to an outside internet connection, then logged it into the VPN. I then connected my own to a different source and logged into the VPN, but Remote Desktop just won't find it.
Just not sure why it doesn't work. I can see the computers on our internal network though, just not any connected via VPN.

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