Re: [Springframework-developer] Portlet support

[William G. T. Jr. <wg...@ru...>]

OK, I've almost got something we can play with...

GenericPortlet -> PortletBean -> FrameworkPortlet -> DispatcherPortlet*
Plus various supporting objects which are mostly a mirror of 
...web.context and web.context.support.  The Portlet API varies enough 
to have to change most of these objects in subtle ways.  Mostly it was a 
cut&paste/replace Servlet with Portlet kind of a job.  I had to deviate 
from that approach when the Portlet API didn't have the same methods 
available, getURI() for instance, or where the calling semantics are 
different, like processAction/render vs doGet/doPost.

* I'm just about to tackle DispatcherPortlet.  It will differ from 
DispatcherServlet in that it can have different HandlerAdaptors 
configured per PortletMode (view, edit, help,...).  Most likely 
candidate for HandlerMappings keys are Request parameters and Session 
attributes.

The DispatcherPortlet also reflects the Portlet two step call with 
abstract methods doRenderService() and doActionService() instead of just 
doService().  Finally, the Porlet API assumes things like multipart 
request and locale selection will be handled by the portal application 
so multipartResolver and localeResolver are probably out.

I am hoping to have something working in a few days.

later.
Bill



William G. Thompson, Jr. wrote:
> We just upgraded our uPortal implementation to uP2.3 which supports the 
> portlet api via pluto so we're ready to start experimenting with Spring 
> support.  I'd like to start a org.springframework.web.portlet package 
> modeled after org.springframework.web.servlet.  Has anyone started on 
> this yet?
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> Rainer Schmitz wrote:
> 
>> I followed the portlet thread a few days ago. I'm just starting to 
>> learn about portlet development and as a Spring user I would like to 
>> use a Portlet / Spring integration from the beginning.
>>
>> Are there any examples on how to compbine portlets and spring? What's 
>> the state of the FrameworkPortlet development?
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>