Struts portlet integration

Question

Hi,
sorry I'm new to weblogic but had used different app servers before. I have to do such a project until next week where you need to put the coffee machine directly beside your computer. ;-o
I already had implement my entity beans and session beans in a xdoclet / maven environment.
Now I need to do the view tier and integrate it in a existing porlat as portlet.
Here my questions:
Should I do my UI via Struts since I'm familar with struts and it would be staight forward. Should I as last step import the final struts & ejb application as portlet to workshop? What and how much work is to do to make a strus application to a portlet?
Or may alternativly should i realize my UI directly in workshop and do this jpf stuff?
As you can see I'm fishing for experimence reports about integration struts / ejb in existing portal workshop projects.
Thanks a lot for any hints.
Stefan

Answer 1

glad to hear im not the only one struggling with integrating ADF with Portal.
ADF consists of 3 layers,
1) Business Layer (model/bc4j)
2) Controler Layer (struts)
3) View Layer (uix/jsp/jsf)
A portlet ussualy takes care of the Controler Layer and the View Layer, it should be possible to use BC4J within your portlets, but not using layers 2 and 3.
But I guess this is not what we want, we want to create an ADF application within
JDeveloper and deploy it either standalone or as a portlet.
I wonder if this is possible with JSF, it doesnt contain struts anymore, so perhaps the
layered complexity is less?
An option is always to use the webclipping portlet, but this is not ideal.
Im curious how Oracle is going to address this, we now have 2 platforms we can develop
applications for, Portal and Standalone (ADF). Its kinda a waste that portlet development
is like developing a servlet, not using a luxery framework like ADF.