Visual Web JSF Portlet Upload file Problem in Websynergy

Hello,
I am using Websynergy milestone 3 release. I have tried to build AS A PORTLET the sample code, "Uploading Files in NetBeans Visual Web JSF Applications" (http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/web/intro.html) using netbeans 6.5. The solution deploys successfully but unfortunately, the file Upload control does not work in the websynergy portlet environment. No file seems to be uploaded. The same code works very well in non-portlet environment. Is there a work-around for the Portlet environment?
Looking forward to some help!
Pius

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We can use JSR-168 JPS portlet upload file,

We can use JSR-168 JPS portlet upload file,
here is the source for you referrence:
upload file can use JSR168 portlet,
1,CustomizablePortlet.java File
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;
import javax.portlet.*;
import oracle.webdb.utils.SimpleStringBuffer;
public class CustomizablePortlet extends GenericPortlet {
private static final String TITLE_KEY = "title";
protected static final String OK_ACTION = "ok_action";
protected static final String APPLY_ACTION = "apply_action";
protected static final PortletMode PREVIEW_MODE = new PortletMode("preview");
protected static final PortletMode EDIT_DEFAULTS_MODE = new PortletMode("EDIT_DEFAULTS");
protected static final PortletMode ABOUT_MODE = new PortletMode("ABOUT");
public CustomizablePortlet() {
public String getTitle(RenderRequest request) {
return request.getPreferences().getValue("title", getPortletConfig().getResourceBundle(request.getLocale()).getString("javax.portlet.title"));
public void doEdit(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response) throws PortletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.print("<FORM ACTION=\"");
out.print(getEditFormSubmitURL(request, response));
out.println("\" METHOD=\"POST\">");
out.println("<TABLE BORDER=\"0\">");
out.println("<TR>");
out.println("<TD WIDTH=\"20%\">");
out.println("<P CLASS=\"portlet-form-field\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\">Title:");
out.println("</TD>");
out.println("<TD WIDTH=\"80%\">");
out.print("<INPUT CLASS=\"portlet-form-input-field\" TYPE=\"TEXT\" NAME=\"");
out.print("title");
out.print("\" VALUE=\"");
out.print(getTitle(request));
out.println("\" SIZE=\"20\">");
out.println("</TD>");
out.println("</TR>");
out.println("<TR>");
out.println("<TD COLSPAN=\"2\" ALIGN=\"CENTER\">");
out.print("<INPUT CLASS=\"portlet-form-button\" TYPE=\"SUBMIT\" NAME=\"");
out.print("ok_action");
out.print("\" VALUE=\"OK\">");
out.print("<INPUT CLASS=\"portlet-form-button\" TYPE=\"SUBMIT\" NAME=\"");
out.print("apply_action");
out.print("\" VALUE=\"Apply\">");
out.println("</TD>");
out.println("</TR>");
out.println("</TABLE>");
out.println("</FORM>");
protected String getEditFormSubmitURL(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response) {
return response.createActionURL().toString();
public void doHelp(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response) throws PortletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.print("Help for <i><b>");
out.print(getTitle(request));
out.println("</b></i>.");
public void doAbout(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response) throws PortletException, IOException {
String aboutHTML = (new SimpleStringBuffer(30)).append("/about_").append(getPortletName()).append(".html").toString();
PortletRequestDispatcher rd = getPortletContext().getRequestDispatcher(aboutHTML);
response.setContentType("text/html");
if(rd != null) {
rd.include(request, response);
} else {
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.print("<p class=\"portlet-font\">This is the about page for ");
out.print(getTitle(request));
out.print(".</p><p class=\"portlet-font\">");
out.print("To customize the contents of this page, create a file named '");
out.print(aboutHTML.substring(1));
out.print("' in the Portlet web application's root directory containing HTML ");
out.print("to appear here. ");
out.print("Alternatively, override the <code>CustomizablePortlet</code> ");
out.println("class's <code>doAbout()</code> method.</p>");
public void doDispatch(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response) throws PortletException, IOException {
WindowState state = request.getWindowState();
if(!state.equals(WindowState.MINIMIZED)) {
PortletMode mode = request.getPortletMode();
if(mode.equals(PREVIEW_MODE))
doView(request, response);
else
if(mode.equals(EDIT_DEFAULTS_MODE))
doEdit(request, response);
else
if(mode.equals(ABOUT_MODE))
doAbout(request, response);
else
super.doDispatch(request, response);
} else {
super.doDispatch(request, response);
public void processAction(ActionRequest request, ActionResponse actionResponse) throws PortletException, IOException {
String newTitle = request.getParameter("title");
PortletPreferences prefs = request.getPreferences();
prefs.setValue("title", newTitle);
prefs.store();
if(request.getParameter("ok_action") != null) {
actionResponse.setPortletMode(PortletMode.VIEW);
actionResponse.setWindowState(WindowState.NORMAL);
2,FileUploadPortlet.java file
import java.io.*;
import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart;
import javax.portlet.*;
import oracle.portal.portlet.sample.CustomizablePortlet;
public class FileUploadPortlet extends CustomizablePortlet
private static final String FILE_PARAM = "file";
private static final String SUBMIT_PARAM = "submit";
private static final String DEFAULT_CHARSET = "ISO-8859-1";
private static final String uploadRoot = "";
public FileUploadPortlet()
public void doView(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response) throws PortletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.print("<form action=\"");
out.print(response.createActionURL().toString());
out.println("\" enctype=\"multipart/form-data\" method=\"post\">");
out.println("<center><table border=\"0\">");
out.println("<tr>");
out.print("<td class=\"portlet-form-field\" align=\"right\">");
out.print("Please browse to an HTML file:");
out.println("</td>");
out.print("<td>");
out.print("<input class=\"portlet-form-input-field\" type=\"file\" name=\"");
out.print("file");
out.print("\">");
out.println("</td>");
out.println("</tr>");
out.println("<tr>");
out.println("<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\">");
out.print("<input type=\"submit\" class=\"portlet-form-button\" name=\"");
out.print("submit");
out.print("\" value=\"Display\">");
out.println("</td>");
out.println("</tr>");
out.println("</table>");
out.println("</form>");
String lastFile = request.getPreferences().getValue("file", null);
if(lastFile != null) {
out.println("<hr width=\"100%\"><br>");
out.print(lastFile);
public void processAction(ActionRequest request, ActionResponse actionResponse) throws PortletException, IOException {
FormDataParser parsedRequest = new FormDataParser(request);
MimeBodyPart mbp = parsedRequest.getMimeBodyPart("file");
if(mbp == null)
super.processAction(request, actionResponse);
else
try {
String fileName= mbp.getFileName();
int splash = fileName.lastIndexOf("\\");
if(splash != -1)
fileName = fileName.substring(splash +1, fileName.length()).trim();
String contentType = mbp.getContentType();
String charSet = getCharsetFromContentType(contentType);
int sepIndex = contentType.indexOf(';');
if(sepIndex != -1)
contentType = contentType.substring(0, sepIndex).trim();
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
mbp.getDataHandler().writeTo(bos);
bos.close();
String content = new String(bos.toByteArray(), charSet);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
fos.write(bos.toByteArray());
fos.close();
PortletPreferences prefs = request.getPreferences();
prefs.setValue("file", fileName + "upload ok");
prefs.store();
catch(MessagingException me) {
throw new PortletException(me);
public static String getCharsetFromContentType(String contentType) {
int lastPos;
if((lastPos = contentType.indexOf(';')) == -1)
return "ISO-8859-1";
lastPos++;
String lowerContentType = contentType.toLowerCase();
int nextPos;
do {
nextPos = lowerContentType.indexOf(';', lastPos);
String param;
if(nextPos == -1)
param = lowerContentType.substring(lastPos).trim();
else
param = lowerContentType.substring(lastPos, nextPos).trim();
if(param.startsWith("charset=") && param.length() > 8)
return param.substring(8);
lastPos = nextPos + 1;
} while(nextPos != -1);
return "ISO-8859-1";
3,FormDataParser.java file
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.activation.DataSource;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart;
import javax.portlet.ActionRequest;
import javax.portlet.PortletException;
public class FormDataParser {
private static final String MULTIPART_PREFIX = "multipart/";
private static final String MULTIPART_FORM_DATA = "multipart/form-data";
private static final String PLAIN_TEXT = "text/plain";
private ActionRequest mWrappedRequest;
private Map mParams;
private Map mBodyParts;
private boolean mIsInitialized;
private boolean mHasMultipart;
public FormDataParser(ActionRequest request) {
mWrappedRequest = request;
public String getParameter(String name) throws PortletException {
String value = mWrappedRequest.getParameter(name);
if(value != null)
return value;
initParameters();
if(!mHasMultipart)
return null;
List paramList = (List)mParams.get(name);
if(paramList != null)
return (String)paramList.get(0);
else
return null;
public String[] getParameterValues(String name) throws PortletException {
String values[] = mWrappedRequest.getParameterValues(name);
if(!mHasMultipart)
return values;
initParameters();
List valueList = (List)mParams.get(name);
if(valueList == null)
return values;
int size = valueList.size();
if(values != null) {
List newValueList = new ArrayList(values.length + size);
newValueList.addAll(Arrays.asList(values));
newValueList.addAll(valueList);
valueList = newValueList;
values = new String[size];
valueList.toArray(values);
return values;
public MimeBodyPart getMimeBodyPart(String name) throws PortletException {
initParameters();
if(!mHasMultipart) {
return null;
} else {
List parts = (List)mBodyParts.get(name);
return parts != null ? (MimeBodyPart)parts.get(0) : null;
public MimeBodyPart[] getMimeBodyParts(String name) throws PortletException {
initParameters();
if(!mHasMultipart)
return null;
List parts = (List)mBodyParts.get(name);
if(parts == null) {
return null;
} else {
MimeBodyPart mimeBodyParts[] = new MimeBodyPart[parts.size()];
parts.toArray(mimeBodyParts);
return mimeBodyParts;
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if(mIsInitialized)
return;
String contentType = mWrappedRequest.getContentType();
if(contentType == null) {
mIsInitialized = true;
return;
int sepIndex = contentType.indexOf(';');
if(sepIndex != -1)
contentType = contentType.substring(0, sepIndex).trim();
if(contentType.equalsIgnoreCase("multipart/form-data")) {
mParams = new HashMap(20);
mBodyParts = new HashMap(20);
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public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
return mWrappedRequest.getPortletInputStream();
public OutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException {
throw new IOException("OutputStream not available");
public String getContentType() {
return mWrappedRequest.getContentType();
public String getName() {
return getClass().getName();
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parseMultiPart(multipartMessage, null);
catch(MessagingException me) {
throw new PortletException(me);
catch(IOException ioe) {
throw new PortletException(ioe);
mHasMultipart = true;
mIsInitialized = true;
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int partCount = multipartMessage.getCount();
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if(part instanceof MimeBodyPart) {
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if(disps != null && disps.length != 0) {
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if(values == null) {
values = new ArrayList(1);
mBodyParts.put(parentFieldName, values);
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if(values == null) {
values = new ArrayList(1);
mParams.put(parentFieldName, values);
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<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'ISO-8859-1'?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
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<display-name>hanhuiwen OracleSamplePortlets</display-name>
<description>hanhuiwen Oracle Sample Portlet Application</description>
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<servlet-name>portletresource</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>oracle.webdb.wsrp.server.ResourceServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
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<display-name>Chart Servlet</display-name>
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<servlet-mapping>
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I'm sure you have in your application lib directory to jars which aren't compatible to each other.
And the problem occured between my myfaces and tomahawk jars .
See this page:
http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/CompatibilityMatrix
It tells you which myfaces and tomahawk jars you can use together.
Hope it can help.
bye

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    <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
    <f:view>
        <webuijsf:page id="page1">
            <webuijsf:html id="html1">
                <webuijsf:head id="head1">
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                </webuijsf:head>
                <webuijsf:body id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
                    <webuijsf:form id="form1">
                        <h:panelGrid id="gridPanel1" style="left: 216px; top: 216px; position: absolute">
                            <webuijsf:staticText id="staticText1" style="font-size: large" text="FACILITY"/>
                            <webuijsf:table augmentTitle="false" id="table1" title="Table" width="0">
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                                    <webuijsf:tableColumn headerText="allocatedhours" id="tableColumn1" sort="allocatedhours">
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                                    <webuijsf:tableColumn headerText="yearofStudy" id="tableColumn2" sort="yearofStudy">
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                        </h:panelGrid>
                    </webuijsf:form>
                </webuijsf:body>
            </webuijsf:html>
        </webuijsf:page>
    </f:view>
</jsp:root>Below is the jsp code to view the Booking table ( I am just getting a blank web page when I run the project with this code).
<jsp:root version="2.1" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf">
    <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
    <f:view>
        <webuijsf:page id="page1">
            <webuijsf:html id="html1">
                <webuijsf:head id="head1">
                    <webuijsf:link id="link1" url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
                </webuijsf:head>
                <webuijsf:body id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
                    <webuijsf:form id="form1">
                        <h:panelGrid id="gridPanel1" style="left: 216px; top: 216px; position: absolute">
                            <webuijsf:staticText id="staticText1" style="font-size: large" text="FACILITY"/>
                            <webuijsf:table augmentTitle="false" id="table1" title="Table" width="0">
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                                    <webuijsf:tableColumn headerText="bookingdate" id="tableColumn1" sort="bookingdate">
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                                    <webuijsf:tableColumn headerText="bookingendtime" id="tableColumn2" sort="bookingendtime">
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                                </webuijsf:tableRowGroup>
                            </webuijsf:table>
                        </h:panelGrid>
                    </webuijsf:form>
                </webuijsf:body>
            </webuijsf:html>
        </webuijsf:page>
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Hi..guys..
The following is the code from my 'SessionBean1'.java file.
package com.TestApp.managedbean;
import com.TestApp.dao.QuotaFacadeLocal;
import com.TestApp.entity.Quota;
import com.TestApp.dao.BookingFacadeLocal;
import com.TestApp.entity.Booking;
import java.util.List;
import javax.ejb.EJB;
import com.sun.rave.web.ui.appbase.AbstractSessionBean;
import javax.faces.FacesException;
* <p>Session scope data bean for your application. Create properties
* here to represent cached data that should be made available across
* multiple HTTP requests for an individual user.</p>
* <p>An instance of this class will be created for you automatically,
* the first time your application evaluates a value binding expression
* or method binding expression that references a managed bean using
* this class.</p>
public class SessionBean1 extends AbstractSessionBean {
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Managed Component Definition">
     * <p>Automatically managed component initialization. <strong>WARNING:</strong>
     * This method is automatically generated, so any user-specified code inserted
     * here is subject to being replaced.</p>
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    // </editor-fold>
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     @EJB
     private QuotaFacadeLocal quotaDAO;
     private Quota[] quotaArray;
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     * session scope. Typically, this occurs as a result of evaluating
     * a value binding or method binding expression, which utilizes the
     * managed bean facility to instantiate this bean and store it into
     * session scope.</p>
     * <p>You may customize this method to initialize and cache data values
     * or resources that are required for the lifetime of a particular
     * user session.</p>
    @Override
    public void init() {
        // Perform initializations inherited from our superclass
        super.init();
        // Perform application initialization that must complete
        // *before* managed components are initialized
        // TODO - add your own initialiation code here
        // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Managed Component Initialization">
        // Initialize automatically managed components
        // *Note* - this logic should NOT be modified
        try {
            _init();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            log("SessionBean1 Initialization Failure", e);
            throw e instanceof FacesException ? (FacesException) e: new FacesException(e);
        // </editor-fold>
        // Perform application initialization that must complete
        // *after* managed components are initialized
        // TODO - add your own initialization code here
     * <p>This method is called when the session containing it is about to be
     * passivated. Typically, this occurs in a distributed servlet container
     * when the session is about to be transferred to a different
     * container instance, after which the <code>activate()</code> method
     * will be called to indicate that the transfer is complete.</p>
     * <p>You may customize this method to release references to session data
     * or resources that can not be serialized with the session itself.</p>
    @Override
    public void passivate() {
     * <p>This method is called when the session containing it was
     * reactivated.</p>
     * <p>You may customize this method to reacquire references to session
     * data or resources that could not be serialized with the
     * session itself.</p>
    @Override
    public void activate() {
     * <p>This method is called when this bean is removed from
     * session scope. Typically, this occurs as a result of
     * the session timing out or being terminated by the application.</p>
     * <p>You may customize this method to clean up resources allocated
     * during the execution of the <code>init()</code> method, or
     * at any later time during the lifetime of the application.</p>
    @Override
    public void destroy() {
     * <p>Return a reference to the scoped data bean.</p>
     * @return reference to the scoped data bean
    protected ApplicationBean1 getApplicationBean1() {
        return (ApplicationBean1) getBean("ApplicationBean1");
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         List<Booking> bookingList = bookingDAO.findAll();
         if (bookingList != null) {
             bookingArray = bookingList.toArray(new Booking[0]);
         } else {
             bookingArray = null;
         return bookingArray;
    public Quota[] getQuotaArray() {
         List<Quota> quotaList = quotaDAO.findAll();
         if (quotaList != null) {
             quotaArray = quotaList.toArray(new Quota[0]);
         } else {
             quotaArray = null;
         return quotaArray;
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[http://testwww.netbeans.org/kb/60/web/web-jpa.html|http://testwww.netbeans.org/kb/60/web/web-jpa.html]
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http://developers.sun.com/jscreator/learning/tutorials/2/textcompletion.html
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K

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