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uPortal Development, Part 2

In Part 1 I showed how to get started with uPortal development by creating a project in the NetBeans IDE that uses the uPortal Quickstart. The uPortal page that displayed shows some problems, however. For example, logging into uPortal with a name and password of "demo" and then clicking the C Web Proxy Examples tab displays this error message:

It turns out the uPortal Quickstart code assumes that Tomcat is running on port 8080. Doing a search across the project for "8080" finds ten files that have at least one occurrence of 8080 hardcoded. The Tomcat installation included with the NetBeans IDE is configured to run on port 8084. It's easy to change, however. Select Tools > Server Manager. Select the entry for Tomcat and then change the server port to 8080 and the shutdown port to 8024.

Click the Close button after changing the value. The new value will not take affect until the next time Tomcat starts, so stop Tomcat by right-clicking its entry in the Runtime window and select Stop. An additional limitation of the uPortal Quickstart is that it references applications for which it does not provide the source. In the example shown above, it is referencing one of the sample Tomcat applications. Those samples are not installed by default with the Tomcat that is included with the NetBeans IDE (although they are available as sample projects). In addition, the uPortal Quickstart references other applications that are not in its source - an example of this is the Google Portlet, which is on uPortal's Portlet Examples page. The uPortal Quickstart does include the binary versions of these applications, however, so there is a workaround.

Under the folder where the uPortal Quickstart was unzipped, there is a Tomcat_5-5-9/webapps folder. Copy the following folders from it:

• /balancer
• /GooglePortlet
• /jsp-examples
• /RenderCountPortlet
• /RssPortlet
• /servlets-examples
• /testsuite

So for the configuration shown above, the destination folder is F:/tools/windows/dev/netbeans/5.0/ga/userdir/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9_base/webapps. Start Tomcat again and logon to uPortal using "demo" as the user name and password. Clicking the C Web Proxy Examples tab should now display this:

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