Two bundled versions are provided to showcase Gatein Portlet Container in action with minimum effort. Theses bundles each include a servlet container configured with the Simple Portal demonstration portal along with some JSR-286 compliant portlets. You will need to have Java 5 configured on your machine to run the demonstration portal. You can download Java 5 at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp. Once you have Java installed, you are ready to download one of GateIn Portlet Container bundles. The following link has the list of downloads for Gatein Portlet Container: http://labs.jboss.com/portal/portletcontainer/download. Two bundles are currently provided: one with Tomcat 6.0 one with JBoss Application Server 4.2 and one with JBoss Application Server 5.1.
Of note in the bundle are the following directories:
- bin - Contains the startup/shutdown commands for JBoss Application Server
- docs - Contains documentation for JBoss Application Server
- gateinpc-docs - Contains documentation for GateIn Portlet Container (this document included)
- server
- Contains JBoss Application Server configuration and the
simple-portal.warfile along with several sample portlets in thedeploydirectory of the default configuration
To start the demonstration portal, go to the
bin
directory and execute either
run.sh
or
run.bat
(depending on your platform).
Of note in the bundle are the following directories:
- bin - Contains the startup/shutdown commands for Tomcat
- logs - Contains the logs once the servlet container is started (the most interesting one being one with locahost in its name)
- gateinpc-docs - Contains documentation for GateIn Portlet Container (this document included)
- lib - Contains Tomcat libraries to which several support libraries for GateIn Portlet Container have been added
- webapps
- Contains Tomcat default applications and the
simple-portal.warfile along with several sample portlets
To start the demonstration portal, go to the
bin
directory and execute either
startup.sh
or
startup.bat
(depending on your platform).
Once the servlet container is started, bring up your web browser and go to the following URL: http://localhost:8080/simple-portal. You should see the default page for Portlet Container's demonstration portal:
Default page for Portlet Container's demonstration portal.