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Portal Pack 3.0 M1 : Now supports Liferay 5.1.1 Portal Server
By satya ranjan 9/2/08 3:57 AM

What is Portal Pack ?

Portal Pack project provides a set of plug-in(s) for NetBeans (IDE) which support full life-cycle of portlet application development inside NetBeans. Using this tool portlet developers can develop, package, deploy and test portlet inside their NetBeans IDE. Portal Pack supports both JSR-168/286 portlets.

Some of the major features supported by Portal Pack :

  • Full support for both JSR 168/JSR 286 specification
  • An eventing storyboard to define and assign JSR 286 Events graphically.
  • Visual Portlet Builder to develop JSF portlets using WYSIWYG editor
  • Portlet deployment support on various Portal Servers.

Portal Pack 3.0 Milestone 1

Portal Pack 3.0 Milestone 1 has been released recently. This version of Portal Pack has support for Liferay 5.1/5.1.1 portal server installed on both Glassfish V2/V3 and Tomcat 5.x server.

Some New Features in this release :

  • Support for Liferay Portal Server 
    • Portlet deployment/undeployment  on Liferay 5.1/5.1.1 Server.
    • It supports Liferay installed on Glassfish V2/V3 and Tomcat 5.x .  The Liferay on Tomcat 6.x support is coming in the next milestone release of Portal Pack.
    • Liferay Server can be started/stopped from the  IDE. (This support is only available for Windows OS, but other OS like Solaris/Linux/Mac will be supported in the next milestone release.)
    • Portlet debugging is also supported.
    • You need to select "WebSynergy Stable Build 2" as server type while configuring Liferay Portal Server inside NetBeans IDE.
  • Non Java Portlets Support : The Portal Pack 3.0 M1 also supports portlets development in non java languages. The non java portlets developed with Portal Pack can be deployed on Liferay Portal Server. The Eventing Story Board of Portal Pack can also be used to enable cross-widget communications between java/non-java widgets through public render parameters. Currently the following types of liferay non java portlets are supported
    • Ruby Portlet
    • PHP Portlet
    • Groovy Portlet

Some of the major features which are planned for the next milestone Portal Pack 3.0 M2 :

  • Spring Portlet Development  (Out of Box Spring view/form portlets, Spring Web Flow Support)
  • Liferay Service generation through NetBeans
  • Liferay on Tomcat 6.x will be supported

So try out Portal Pack 3.0 Milestone 1  !!!

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very good. i will try it. thanks.

Posted on 9/11/08 3:06 AM.

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hi,

its superb, i will try it.

Posted on 11/9/08 7:43 PM.

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Thanks Auditya !!! The latest version Portal Pack 3.0 M2 has lot of liferay specific features (service builder integration etc.). You may want to try them. Looking for your feedback and comments emoticon

Posted on 11/9/08 10:42 PM in reply to auditya manikanta vadrevu.

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Hi Satya,I have a small doubt regarding liferay I18N.
can u please tell me how to apply i18n to portal tabs?
how can i apply to thwe entire portal not portlet?

Posted on 11/18/08 1:36 AM in reply to satya ranjan.

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hi,
very good ,I read your article. I have doubt , it made me confusion . what does Alfresco gives other than liferay. both has CMS features .which one is best.

mohan

Posted on 12/1/08 11:28 PM in reply to satya ranjan.

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Alfresco has very powerful Document Management and WCM. also Alfresco is powerful in Workflow . you can apply Rules and many other things to work out on Documents.

Where as Liferay has Powerful portal platform compared to Alfresco.

If you need to develop a Portal system with heavy/powerful CMS then you can use integration of Liferay (as portal platform) and Alfresco (as backend CMS)

- Tarun Kayasth

Cignex Technologies PVT. LTD.

Posted on 9/3/09 2:47 PM in reply to mmohana chee mur.

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