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by Matt Raible.
Original Post: Installing Jetspeed 2 and deploying Struts/JSF Portlets
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One of things we're moving to on my current project is portlet development. The client has a bunch of apps they want developed and it makes a lot of sense to develop them as portlets and deploy them in a portlet container. Because of this, we spent some time this week mucking around with Jetspeed-2. Bruce and I figured out how to install it, and then I did a bit of work with Equinox to deploy the Struts and JSF versions as portlets.
I didn't get equinox-struts or equinox-jsf fully functioning in Jetspeed, but I did get them to deploy and bring up the first page. I expect to do some more work in the next month to get these apps fully functional. In the meantime, I've put together the following tutorials.