Developing Portlets with GWT

How to write a portlet with the aim of GWT.

Pre-development Actions

Modifying Tomcat

1. Replace $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/gridsphere/WEB-INF/CustomPortal/layouts/TemplateLayout.xml with the corresponding one found here.
2. Include gwt.js and script.html files found here in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/gridsphere/html directory.

Modifying Gridpshere Home

If you want you can also apply the respective changes to gridsphere's home directory. This can be useful if, for some reason, you want to redeploy gridsphere.

Installing GWT

1. Download the latest version of GWT from here.
2. Uzip the file.
3. Set environmntal variable: GWT_HOME=<the name of the folder where you unpacked gwt files>

How to create a gwt-portlet

Create a jsr 168 portlet

In oder to create an empty portlet project, you must execute:

cd $GRIDPSHERE_HOME/
ant new-project