Then we talk about java portlets and their specification, after which we write a portlet with spring portlet mvc. Liferay mvc is portlet development framework given by liferay. Portlets in action is a comprehensive, handson guide to building portlet driven applications in java. The spring portlet model view controller framework is a truly unique one compared to other frameworks because it is exclusively designed for developing portlets, leaving behind the limitations that comes with providing portlet development support in an existing web framework. Build three of the screens in time expression using spring mvc. We can convert web content as well as document media content in different formats. Portlet redirect with spring mvc portlets oracle community. However unlike servlet it occupies a fraction of the browser.
How to develop portlets with spring mvc portlet in liferay. In this article, we first talk about portals and when they should be used. The business scenarios are more complicated then normal and they require a full knowledge about the portlet, portlet life cycle and how could provide a compliant enhanced portlet that complying with the latest standards presented at the portlet field. The spring web modelviewcontroller mvc framework is designed around a. Finally, it concludes with a sample which illustrates developing portlet applications using springs portlet approach. The making of a portlet is similar to the process of writing a servlet.
We will first get brief introduction about spring mvc web mvc framework and then we see how to write spring mvc portlet in liferay. The timing of this writing might seem a bit odd, since portlet development has been moved to a back seat a back row seat, in favor of contentmanaged client. Central 100 atlassian 3rdp old 1 spring plugins 27 alfresco 2 cambridge 1 version repository. Swf integrates with existing frameworks like spring mvc, struts, and jsf, in both servlet and portlet environments. Web mvc framework project metadata api guide spring. Spring portlet mvc framework provides easy integration with popular viewrendering technologies such as jstl, apache tiles, and apache velocity. We also demonstrate how you can integrate apache tiles framework with spring portlet mvc framework. Liferay modules followed 3tier architecture application development such as persistence, service and presentation layered architecture. Liferay mvc portlet development introduction liferay savvy. Spring framework targets to make j2ee development easier to use and promotes good programming practices by enabling a pojobased programming model. Example spring mvc portlet that can be deployed as a wab on liferay 7.
Aug 10, 2009 this session will provide a complete tour of using the spring mvc framework to build java portlets. Portlet mvc framework is mirror image of web mvc framework in spring. This article is a stepbystep tutorial on spring portlet mvc framework. The portlet mvc framework provides a mock testing framework that you can use for testdriven development of your portlet. There are many similarities between portlet and servlet. A blob alternately known as a binary large object, basic large object, blob, or blob is a collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system. By this hello world spring mvc portlet i will try to explain how to create your first spring portlet and necessary annotations.
Liferay have out box portlet support for spring portlets. Before delving into this article, the reader is expected to have a fair bit of knowledge on core spring framework and spring mvc. There are little different in spring mvc portlet framework. The form tag library is integrated with spring portlet mvc framework and gives access to the command object. When we create liferay mvc portlet using plugins sdk then portlet consists of ant build file and the build file have service builder related target by default. A portlet, as the name suggests, is a part of a portal. This annotation support is available for both servlet mvc and portlet mvc. In addition to supporting conventional servletbased web development, spring also supports jsr168 portlet development. Its part of a threepart series that creates a portlet example using the spring 3. Portlet redirect with spring mvc portlets 650850 jul 26, 2010 10. Spring portlet mvc is inherited from spring mvc so we can use spring portlet mvc to create portlets and we can deploy spring portlet in jsr 168 and jsr 286 standards portals. Finally, we deploy the portlet we wrote on liferay, the leading java portal. In the presented introduction about apache pluto, weve mainly discussed the most simple portlet application that you may have.
Benefits of using the spring framework following is the list of few of the great benefits of using spring framework. We need not to do any additional configuration or need not to add any additional jar files when we develop portlet using liferay mvc. The spring mvc not only famous for developing java based web applications but also it can be used in portlet development because of its cool features. This frame work is liferay specific one and we can use in liferay portal. This article is taken from the book portlets in action from manning publications.
Heres the answer after i worked it out for a little while. Liferay has a capability to convert document in different formats like pdf, doc. Portlets in action is a comprehensive, handson guide to building portletdriven applications in java. Jun 23, 2010 finally, it concludes with a sample which illustrates developing portlet applications using springs portlet approach. In this chapter, you will learn about portlet development using the spring portlet mvc framework, which is very similar to the spring mvc framework discussed in chapter 14. Liferay service builder used spring hibernate dao implementation to create the services. As much as possible, the portlet mvc framework is a mirror image of the web mvc framework, and also uses the same underlying view abstractions and integration technology.
Portlet bridges will be provided by framework vendors so that we can use those bridges to develop specific frame work based portlets same way spring also proving spring mvc portlet bridge with this we can develop portlets and that can be run in any portal servers which follow the. This is the 2nd article in the 3part series of articles focusing on spring 3. Differences between liferay module and liferay plugin. Liferay workspace need to create to hold all modules and make sure that you configured proper proxy settings in eclipse if you are behind firewall. The central component of spring portlet mvc is dispatcherportlet. Portlets are pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal. Liferay mvc portlet development with liferay ide liferay.
In this post we will see how to create and deploy jsf liferay portlet on tomcat server. In this chapter, you will learn about portlet development using the spring portlet mvc framework, which is very similar to the spring web mvc framework because most of it is ported from web mvc. Spring also support its counter part spring mvc for portlet. Service builder, layout, activator, fragment, module, wiki, blog, osgi, jsp, component, aui, web content, elastic search. Spring portlet mvc seminar presentation transcript 1. Its also follows all jsr portlet standards and it inherited the generic portlet features. Liferay mvc portlet database interactions liferay mvc.
A little project to play around with liferay portal and spring framework. This article is taken from the book portlets in action. For more information on this, please refer and read introduction to spring web mvc. Jsr168 portlet specification defined on the java community process jcp. Maven archetype can be used to generate the application e. Liferay 7 tutorials java liferay liferay7 spring hibernate. In addition to supporting conventional servletbased web development, spring also supports jsr286 portlet development. Developing a spring portlet mvc framework application for.
Nov 26, 2009 spring portlet mvc seminar presentation transcript 1. Jul 07, 2015 if we take a look at spring mvc portlet, we will notice that is very similar to spring mvc. It will allow you to covert web content as document into different formats. Configuring a spring mvc portlet liferay help center. Portlet development with spring portlet mvc and websphere. Hello world spring mvc portlet with annotations pro liferay. Serve pdf in spring portlet mvc architecture liferay 6. Liferay mvc portlet is default liferay portlet development frame work and it is inbuilt in liferay plugins sdk. This session will provide a complete tour of using the spring mvc framework to build java portlets. If we take a look at spring mvc portlet, we will notice that is very similar to spring mvc. You can often find their classes and interfaces with the same names but in different packages.
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