General guidelines about Portlet StyleSheets

Homogenizing the DILIGENT interface

Pre-development Actions

Downloading Gridpshere

The official DILIGENT gridsphere version is: 2.2.7.
All the portlet developers must use this version. To download it click here.

Preparing the environment

1. Unzip / Untar the file
2. Add a new environmental variable: export GRIDSPHERE_HOME=<grdsphere-folder>

Patching Gridpshere Home

In order to be able to use DILIGENT header themes, you should first patch gridsphere. The needed steps are:

1. Download the patch from here
2. Unzip / Untar the file
3. Execute: cd <patch-folder>; ./patch.sh $GRIDSPHERE_HOME

! Important Info 1:
This patch also contains the changes needed on Gridsphere so as to consume GWT applications.
! Important Info 2:
If you want to use credentials you also have to patch gridpshere for credentials. You can find the needed info here

Installing GridSphere

• Execute: cd $GRIDSPHERE_HOME; and install
• The server url is: http://localhost:port/diligent/gcube