There are few decisions:
- Use Liferay listener for Sun JSF with Sun's FacesPortlet.
- Use JBossPortletBridge, because it supports RichFaces and AJAX.
I choosed the second with understanding that JBossPortletBridge is in beta and everywhere says that it supports JBossPortal, but I did not find where says - "It supports Liferay too". It does not support Liferay Portal 5.0.
I found few interesting things, that anyone should know before starting write portlets with RichFaces for Liferay using JBossPortletBridge 1.0.x Beta:
- RichFaces should be at least 3.2.1.
- You should configure portlet as ajaxable with server side state saving policy
- Override the
javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet
given with JBossPortletBridge. You'll need manually setup the request attributejavax.servlet.include.path_info
with correct viewId you want to process and render. Or you can setup this request attribute at thePortletExternalContextImpl
class incalculateServletPath()
method (remember JBossPortletBridge 1.0.x Beta). - Use
<a4j:commandXXX/>
components to process navigation.<h:commandXXX/>
will not help ((.
Good luck!
Update:
My friend Andriy has described the solution with details and configuration samples, and you can find his post by the url http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/1712557. It really can be useful for you.
I've uploaded the portlet sample prototype, so it's ready and waits for you :)
http://www.esnips.com/doc/de8b5661-fb6d-4fc7-83a3-ed09aa72c695/PortletPrototype
7 comments:
Hi,
i'm trying to run portlets in liferay.
Do you have a working example to show?
Thanks in advance
Fiorenzo
Hi Fiorenzo,
Sorry, was in travel, so couldn't answer before. I have working demo portlet with RichFaces for Liferay 5.1. Send you be email archive with sources and WAR-file. You may open the project with IntellijIdea.
Please, see class FacesPortlet to find what I proposed in the post.
Ruslan
Hi,
We are also trying to deploy richfaces portlets in Liferay 5.1.x
Can you send me you successfully deployed example
Thanks in advance
Oli
Hi Ruslan,
I'am working on RichFaces with Liferay Portal, but still don't know how.
Could you kindly send me the example source to me also, it will be very helpful.
My email is vincent.lin02@gmail.com
Thanks in advance
Vincent
Hi Ruslan,
I also desperately need that demo using RichFaces + LifeRay.
Please can I get that.
Any help wud be really appreciable.
My email is: netra.707@gmail.com
Thanks in advance
Netra
I've fixed most of Liferay compatibility issues just after RichFaces 3.3.1.CR2 / portletbridge 1.0.0.CR1 releases. The only coming portletbridge 1.0.0.CR2 release works with Liferay portal. It is not available for download yet, but you can built it from source code that already tagged in the SVN repository http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/portletbridge/tags/1.0.0.CR2 .
I'm going to put instructions at my blog http://alexsmirnov.wordpress.com/ - anyway, it is good occasion to start that :-)
Hi,
for me Liferay 6.0.4, Richfaces 3.3.3 and a patched Portletbridge 2.0.0 works great.
The patch is available at https://jira.jboss.org/browse/PBR-191 and the link to the compiled patched jar files with some description are available at https://maven2.everit.biz/browse/org.jboss.portletbridge
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