Building your gCube Portlet in ETICS

Build Scripts

To build portlets 3 standard scripts have been created that should be suitable for all portlets. These files are:

• build.xml File:Build.xml
• build.properties File:Build.properties
• installPortlet.sh (see below)

Please copy those file in your portlet's root directory.

build.xml

Targets provided by build.xml are:

• setenv: sets classpath. All other targets depend on it;
• compile: compiles java soruces
• gwt-compile: runs gwt compiler
• war: creates war package
• javadoc: runs javadoc compiler
• d4s-deploy: used for automatic portlet's deploy

Download from here the build.xml file. File:Build.xml

build.properties

Following properties, at least, must be customized:

• war.filename
• gwt-module (if any)
• javadoc.doctitle
• javadoc.windowtitle

Download from here the basic build.properties file. File:Build.properties

installPortlet.sh

Create a file named installPortlet.sh in your portlet's root directory containing:

#!/bin/bash
#
if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc_portal" ]
then
	source "$HOME/.bashrc_portal"
fi

if [ -z "$CATALINA_HOME"  ]
then
	echo  "Cannot deploy portlet(s), tomcat was not detected!"
	exit 1
else
	ant -f build.xml d4s-deploy >& ant_logs.txt
	if [ $? != 0 ]
	then
		echo  "Cannot deploy portlet(s), build was not successfull!"
		exit 1
	fi
exit 0
fi

ETICS Configuration

In this page a guide to create an ETICS configuration for a D4Science-II portlet is provided.

Build Commands

Build commands specification is quite straightforward: you can refer to following screenshot.

Dependencies

In order to simplify portlet's dependencies management a special component has been created: org.gcube.portal.portal-framework. This component aims to:

• decouple portlets from the specific portal implementation (e.g.: gridsphere, liferay,...);
• provide a common environment to compile portlets;

All portlets should express a dependency on org.gcube.portal.portal-framework.

portal-framework details

At the moment, org.gcube.portal.portal-framework provide portlets that express it as dependency with:

• a PORTAL_HOME env variable that point to actual location on filesystem of portal libraries;
• a GWT_HOME anv variable that point to actual location of gwt installation directory;
• gwt dependency;
• liferay dependency;