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JBoss Tools 3 Developers Guide

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JBoss Tools 3 Developers Guide

Overview of this book

JBoss Tools consist of the best Java frameworks and technologies placed together under the same "roof". Discovering JBoss Tools is like exploring a cave; at first everything seems unknown and complicated, but once you become familiar with the main features of the Tools, you will start to feel at home. This is the first book in the market on JBoss Tools, waiting to assist you to throw away all the tiny, dedicated tools you have used earlier, thus helping you to reduce the time you spend on developing a Java application. This book will explore the tools that will help you to build Hibernate, Seam, JSF, Struts, Web Services, jBPM, ESB, and so on and show you how to use them through screenshots, examples, and source code. JBoss Tools comes with a set of dedicated wizards, generators, editors, reverse engineering capabilities, configuration files, templates, syntax highlighting, and more for each of these technologies. Just choose the technologies, and JBoss Tools will glue them together in amazing Java web applications. This book will show you how to develop a set of Java projects using a variety of technologies and scenarios. Everything is described through JBoss Tools "eyes". After we settle the project (or scenario) that will be developed, we configure the proper environment for the current tool (the selected projects cover the main components of a web application, with regard to the backstage technology). We continue by exploring the tool to accomplish our tasks and develop the project's components. A cocktail of images, theoretical aspects, source code, and step-by-step examples will offer you a complete insight into every tool. At the end, we deploy and test the project. In addition, every chapter is rich with pure notions about the underlying technology, which will initiate into you or remind you of the basic aspects of it. It will also show you complete and functional applications, and get you familiar with the main aspects of every tool. By the end you will have enough information to successfully handle your own projects with JBoss Tools.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
JBoss Tools 3 Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Adding a Java portlet in JBoss Portal


To get started with JBoss Portal and JBoss Portal Tools, you should first have a Dynamic Web Project pointed to the JBoss Portal runtime. Therefore, we start by developing a Dynamic Web Project stub in the classical approach:

  1. 1. From the Eclipse File menu, select New | Other option.

  2. 2. In the New window, expand the Web node, and select the Dynamic Web Project leaf. Click on the Next button.

  3. 3. In the New Dynamic Web Project window, type myJavaPortlets as the project name.

  4. 4. Next, focus on the Target Runtime field. Conforming to our configuration, we select JBoss Portal 4.2 runtime (we can also select <None> and postpone this selection for later when we add the JBoss Portlets facet). If you don't have a JBoss Portal runtime, then click on the New button and follow the wizard dedicated to runtimes creation.

  5. 5. Continue by selecting the dynamic web module version (we selected version 2.5) and the configuration (we selected Default Configuration for JBoss...