Re: [Imbrium-developer] dynamic deplyment of portlets

[Rogier S. <rs...@e-...>]

I agree. By deploying applications you assure a consistent definition of all
necessary relations between builders used by your portlet. However, you
should of course also supply the builders in packaged file.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerard van de Looi" <gv...@e-...>
To: <imb...@li...>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Imbrium-developer] dynamic deplyment of portlets


> Instead of defining builders, I think it should be possible to describe
> mmbase applications in the deployment descriptor.
> In this way it's also possible to define relations between builders ans to
> initialize your application with data.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rogier Schaaf" <rs...@e-...>
> To: "Imbrium Developer List" <imb...@li...>
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 7:54 AM
> Subject: [Imbrium-developer] dynamic deplyment of portlets
>
>
> > Below is the draft design posted by Edvard to support dynamic deployment
> of
> > portlets, including MMBase content types and relations.
> >
> > I will try to tie this as document to outstanding Feature request on SF.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> >
> > Support dynamic deployment of portlets
> >
> > It should be possible to place a file in a specified directory
(specified
> in
> > a config file) which makes it possible to deploy new portlets.
> > The file should be a kind of archive preferably in the jar format (zip).
> > The file should contain a deployment descriptor describing the contents
of
> > the file.
> > The file can not only contain an implementation of a portlet, but also
> > several mmbase components.
> > These components can include builders and content.
> >
> > The goal of the dynamic deployment is to automatically pickup the new
> > archive and dynamically use it's contents in the running server.
> > This should be done without unpacking the file. So, the contents is read
> in
> > the memory but is not stored on disk.
> > With the deployment a running Imbrium instance should be able to
> initialize
> > the new builders (create needed tables),
> > insert content into the database, add and start portlets, controls etc.
> > Also, it should be possibly do load any class from included jar files.
> > An alternative approach which is available is to unpack the archive to
an
> > appropriate directory on the server. Then from here the initialization
> > will take place.
> >
> > Deployment of an archive will never result in visable changes in a users
> > portal. It will only add the possibillity to add a new portlet to a
users
> > portal. So changes are only visible in customize mode.
> >
> > The files which containes the new deployment information should be
> described
> > in the deployment descriptor.
> > The descriptor describes which files should be deployed.
> > The deployment descriptor could look something like this:
> > <imbrium-app>
> >  <portlets>
> >   <portlet>new_portlets1.xreg</portlet>
> >   <portlet>new_portlets2.xreg</portlet>
> >  </portlets>
> >  <controls>
> >   <control>new_control.xreg</control>
> >  </controls>
> >  <controllers>
> >   <controller>new_controller.xreg</controller>
> >  </controllers>
> >  <medias>
> >   <media>new_media.xreg</media>
> >  </medias>
> >  <skins>
> >   <skin>new_skin.xreg</skin>
> >  </skins>
> >  <builders>
> >   <builder>new_builder1.xml</builder>
> >   <builder>new_builder2.xml</builder>
> >   <builder>new_builder3.xml</builder>
> >  </builders>
> >  <contents>
> >   <content>content.xml</content>
> >  </contents>
> >  <libraries>
> >   <library>portlets.jar</library>
> >  </libraries>
> > </imbrium-app>
> >
> >
> >
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