[opencms-dev] OpenCMS and portlets.

[Syed]

Hello, I am just wondering whether open cms does provides some in built
portlets like JSR 168 compliant, which we can directly host on the
portal server, instead of building custom portlets utilizing the open
CMS APIs?

 

Thanks,

Arshad

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Ivo Esteves
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:51 PM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] OpenCMS and portlets.

 

Alex

Once again, thanks allot for your help and time.

 

You gave me good news, because I make deploy of my application (in this
case portlet) in "webapps" directory, so the problems isn't the
application context. So I assume that the problem is in my code.

 

My problem, is that I get a java.lang.NullPointerException, when I call
OpenCms.initCmsObject("Admin").

 

The exception occurs in
"org.opencms.main.OpenCmsCore.initCmsObject(OpenCmsCore.java:935)", like


I don't have the source of version 5.3.5, I can't go to source to see
what's happening wrong...

 

Do you have any idea about what's happening???

 

Best Regards.

Ivo

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Kandzior
Sent: quarta-feira, 28 de Julho de 2004 9:13
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] OpenCMS and portlets.

 

Ivo,

 

an application context is a web application deployed in the "webapps"
folder in the ${CATALINA_HOME} directory. OpenCms usually is installed
in the "opencms" directory / application context. In case you want to
share an instance of the OpenCms object, your application must be
deployed in the same directory in "webapps" as OpenCms. Of course, you
can rename the directory name. 

 

I think there is also a way to access one application context from
another in a Servlet, like this:

ServletContext otherContext = getServletContext().getContext("name");

but I did not try using this myself so far.

Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com <http://www.alkacon.com/>  

 

-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Ivo Esteves
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 7:40 PM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] OpenCMS and portlets.

Hi, again...

 

In advance, thanks for your quick response. :-)

 

The version that I'm using is the 5.3.5, so I can use the solution you
give me. But I have a problem and I think that is the application
context...

 

I've OpenCms and portles(eXo platform) running under TomCat 5.0.25. Can
you tell me if the solution should work in this environment?? I already
tried but don't work, maybe TomCat isn't an application context, or
maybe I've done something wrong???

 

Someone have an idea???

 

Thanks 

Ivo Esteves

 

-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Kandzior
Sent: sexta-feira, 23 de Julho de 2004 15:52
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] OpenCMS and portlets.

 

What version do you use? 

 

If you use the current "stable" release, there is no easy way (without
core code modifications) to get a CmsObject.

 

This has changed in the current development version (CVS HEAD). In this
version you can get access to a CmsObject using the OpenCms singleton
Object (e.g. using method OpenCms.initCmsObject(String unsername). This
just requires that OpenCms shares an application context with your
application.

Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com <http://www.alkacon.com/>  

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Ivo Esteves
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 4:25 PM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: [opencms-dev] OpenCMS and portlets.

Hi, 

I'm newbie in OpenCMS. 

 

I'm developing a portal using portlets and we decide to use OpenCMS only
to be the Content Management Service. 

 

To access resources I've got to use the OpenCMS API, so far so good, but
I don't know how to get the CMSObject.

So far I only see examples in JSP, that use CmsJspActionElement class to
get it, but I'm using portlets (Java) and I don't how to get the
CMSObject to access resources,

 

If anyone has an idea... 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Ivo Esteves

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