Portal Explorations: siddesh kamath

Project Websynergy is Sun's next generation portal using Liferay Portal Server, GlassFish v3, and MySQL

Steps to checkout the websynergy code base :

1. Download the svn utility from http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/41686/svn-1.4.6-setup.exe

2. Edit the servers file to add your respective proxy server which is  under the location C:\Documents and Settings\<windows user>\Application Data\Subversion . A Sample "servers" file is available at the following location. Just replace the tag "<Add your proxy name here>" with your proxy.

http://blogs.sun.com/siddeshkamath/resource/synergy checkout/servers

3. Note, sometimes the Subversion directory wont be present under C:\Documents and Settings\<windows user>\Application Data until you restart the machine

4. Download and install ant from the location : http://apache.cs.utah.edu/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.7.0-bin.zip

5. Download and install JDK 1.6

6. Add a system variable JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0

7. Add a system variable SVN = C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin\svn

8. Add the jdk path (C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\bin) to the path variable

9. svn co http://mercurial.sfbay.sun.com/svn/repos/e2demo/synergy synergy

10. cd to the synergy directory and run ant

11. Once the ant is successful, cd to the directory synergy\install\image\glassfish\bin and run asadmin.bat start-domain

12. Wait for 1 or 2 mintues for the jsps to compile and run the websynergy portal by accessing http://localhost:8585  (user : paul@example.com password : paul)