The Liferay core engineering team and the Sun engineering team are collaborating to implement more monitoring features and capabilities into Liferay Portal . We would like to invite the community to provide feedback on the new features and let us know your thoughts.

The following wiki articles describe the features:

• Liferay Monitoring Proposal
• Liferay MBean Object Names Proposal
  

You can see the announcement with respect to this here on the Liferay community.

The WSRP 2.0 FCS binary is now available for download from the OpenPortal WSRP project download page and has implemented all the WSRP 2.0 mandatory and most of the optional features. This project binary is being shipped into the below release vehicles apart from the above standalone install which the project provides as a wsrp-configurator.jar

There has been quite a few queries on Liferay OpenPortal WSRP integration, Here are some notes in addition to the below blog entries.

• Setting up a WSRP Producer in Liferay
• OpenPortal WSRP Consumer in Liferay
  

1. OpenPortal WSRP is now moved to liferay plugins under wsrp-portlet directory - Yes this is the case even in Liferay 5.2 and in all future versions.
2. The WSRP Administrative interface ( Producer and Consumer admin  portlets ) will appear in the "Control Panel" if the WSRP Portlet plugin is deployed successfully.
3. The OpenPortal WSRP has dependency on the Metro stack, Hence deploying it on application servers other than glassfish or tomcat may conflict with the applications servers webservices stack. The above plugin is tested and recommended to be deployed over glassfish or tomcat liferay distribution.
4. Make sure that you set portlet.container.impl=sun in portal-ext.properties as mentioned in the above blog.
   

Here is a note on how to setup a WSRP Producer on Liferay or Websynergy instance. The OpenPortal WSRP Producer version 2.0 is integrated into the liferay trunk, the next major release of Liferay i.e version 5.2 will have both the OpenPortal WSRP Producer and Consumer integrated into it.

If you are looking for some notes on how to use the OpenPortal WSRP Consumer in liferay. Please refer to this earlier blog "Liferay consumes OpenPortal WSRP".

A. Setting the portal properties :

If you are using a liferay build/binary, before we start make sure that your portal-ext.properties has portlet container set to Sun Container.

Here is the snippet.

portlet.container.impl=sun

Note : The above configuration is not required on the websynergy binary/setup, Websynergy bundle by default sets the container to Sun.

Make sure you restart the server after this configuration.

B. Deploy a Portlet:

Now deploy any portlet, say a simple sample portlet like the the "Bookmark Portlet" binary readily available for download from the Portlet repository project.

Make sure this portlet works fine by adding to the user page before we proceed.

Note : You can deploy the above portlet either using the "Plugin Installer" or by copying to the hot deploy directory.

C. WSRP Producer administrative portlet:

The administrative functionality for the WSRP Producer are provided by a portlet called the "WSRP Producer", The same portlet is available or integrated into the "Control Panel" of the Liferay Portal.

Login as administrator and choose to use this portlet or choose the control panel --> WSRP Producer option to get the administrative GUI.

D. Creating a WSRP Producer :

Follow instructions below to create a WSRP Producer using the above GUI.

1. Click on "Add Producer" button.
   
2. Enter a name for the Producer.
3. Choose your options
1. Say 2.0 (To create a 2.0 WSRP Producer).
2. Registration Required and Inband supported.
3. More details on these options here.
4. The newly created producer is disabled by default.
   
5. To enable this producer, edit the producer by clicking on newly created producer.
6. The "Bookmark Portlet" which we deployed should be available in "Unpublished" portlets list.
7. Move this portlet from "Unpublished" to "Published" list.
8. Save the configuration, by clicking on "save" button.
9. The producer would still be disabled.
10. Edit the producer again and change the status to "Enabled"
11. Save the configuration.

The WSDL URL for this producer is automatically generated, You can get the URL in the edit screen of the producer, share this WSDL URL with the consumers who wish to use this portlet on their portal.

You can create any number of producer instances on the the same portal and export different list of portlets for each producer. As you can see setting up a WSRP 2.0 producer in Liferay is just a matter of few clicks without any need for programming effort.

Stay tuned on the OpenPortal WSRP Project mailing list for more information w.r.t to this integration.

The OpenPortal WSRP 2.0 beta is now available part of Java Application Platform SDK Update 6. Its also available as a separate download from the project download page. Its recommended to use OpenPortal PortletContainer version 2.0_01 with this.

Also checkout the WSRP 2.0 Beta Article available as the part of Java Application Platform SDK Update 6.

Please uninstall previous versions before installing this release.

Note : If you are using a build from the OpenPortal WSRP trunk i.e you checkout, build and install a OpenPortal WSRP version, its recommended to continue so. Since this WSRP 2.0 beta release is from branch that was created a while back for the Java Application Platform SDK U6 release.

The OpenPortal WSRP Project consumer is now integrated into Liferay Portal. The next stable release of Liferay is expected to have both the OpenPortal WSRP producer and consumer integrated in it.

This is the first milestone integration called phase 1, where an usable OpenPortal WSRP consumer integrated into Liferay Portal. Here is the list of features that are supported in this phase 1 integration.

1. Ability to create multiple WSRP consumers.
2. Ability to create WSRP portlets and view them.
3. Integrated with Liferay channel URL rewriter
4. Integrated WSRP resource proxy
5. WSRP eventing
6. WSRP shared render parameters
7. WSRP leasing
8. WSRP resource serving
9. WSRP caching.

Here are some screen shots of this integration

A. Finding WSRP Consumer Admin Portlet:

    The WSRP consumer admin portlet is integrated into the Liferay as an admin portlet that enables management of multiple WSRP Consumers.

After successful login click -->Add Application --> choose Admin category ---> WSRP Consumer Admin Portlet

B. Rendered WSRP Consumer Admin Portlet:

The following screen shot shows the WSRP consumer admin portlet rendered on the Liferay portal desktop.

C. Finding WSRP channels:

The WSRP channels created using the WSRP Consumer Admin Portlet appear under the WSRP category in the "Add Application" drop down.

D. Rendered WSRP Channel:

The following screen shot shows a remote portlet rendered on the Liferay Portal desktop.

Stay tuned on the OpenPortal WSRP Project mailing list for more information w.r.t to this integration.  

The OpenPortal WSRP v2 milestone 4  is now available for download, milestone 4 is the last feature preview binary from the OpenPortal WSRP v2 project. The OpenPortal WSRP is feature complete from the WSRP 2.0 spec perspective by implementing all the mandatory and most of the optional features.

This milestone previews the following optional WSRP v2 features

1. WSRP 2.0 CC/PP Capability
2. WSRP 2.0 Leasing
   1. Registration Leasing
3. Interoperability Fixes

 

Here are the links to the binary and documents associated with this milestone.

A. Binary download

1. WSRP version 2.0 milestone 4 binary  requires
2. Portlet Container 2.0  16 April 2008 binary
   

B. OpenPortal WSRP documents:

1. Whats new in Milestone 4
   
2. Glassfish Install Instructions
3. Tomcat Install Instructions
   
4. User Guide
5. WSRP v2 milestone 4 samples
6. Sample Portlets

 

The WSRP version 1.0 FCS is the latest stable binary from the WSRP v1 project. This is expected to be the last binary release from the WSRP v1 Project and this project will remain in maintenance mode, only serious issues reported will be fixed from now on. This same binary is integrated into the following releases.

1. Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 release and
2. Java Application Platform SDK Update 5.

From now on all future developments and feature integration will happen only on the WSRP version 2.0 project. 

A. Binary download

1. WSRP version 1.0 FCS bits  requires
2. Portlet Container 2.0 RC2
   

B. WSRP documents:

1. Install Instructions
2. User Guide
3. FAQ

C. Portlet Container documents:

1. Install Instructions

D. See Also:

1. Portlet Repository binary

 

We just completed the WSRP version 2.0 interoperability test cases with OpenPortal WSRP Project Consumer and IBM Producer.  Here are some screenshots and details about this interoperability test cases.

A. WSRP 2.0 Eventing Interoperability:

IBM interoperability server exports the following 2 portlets that communicate with each other using events:

1. FlightBookingPortlet
2. HotelBookingPortlet
   

Using the FlightBookingPortlet and booking a flight results in an event that is caught by the HotelBookingPortlet and blocks a hotel in the same city. Here is a screenshot of these portlets on the OpenPortal WSRP driver.

 

 

B. WSRP 2.0 Shared Render Interoperability:

IBM interoperability server exports the following 3 portlets that communicate with each other using shared or public render paramters:

1. PublicParamCityInfo
2. PublicParamCitySelect
3. PublicParamCityWeather
   

Using the PublicParamCitySelect and selecting a city results in setting of a shared render parameter that is received by the PublicParamCityInfo and PublicParamCityWeather which display the city information and weather respectively. Here is a screenshot of these portlets on the OpenPortal WSRP driver.

 

 

C. WSRP 2.0 Resource Serving:

There is not special portlets for this, if you observe the above eventing and shared render parameter portlet, you could see the image that is being displayed by these portlets are fetched inband or using the getResource() method call on the portlet, which validates the getResource WSRP version 2.0 implementation on the OpenPortal WSRP Project

This interoperability tests all the major WSRP version 2.0 features, stay tuned for more information on the OpenPortal WSRP Project mailing lists.

 

Checkout the following announcements on the release of a new milestone binary from OpenPortal WSRP Project.

1. Project Announcement : OpenPortal WSRP version 2.0 milestone 3 now available   or
2. Blog on PortalPost .

 

This new milestone 3 supports the following feature set

1. WSRP 2.0 getResource
2. WSRP 2.0 Caching
   1. Markup Caching
   1. Expiration Markup Caching
   2. Validation Markup Caching
      
   2. Resource Caching
   1. Expiration Resource Caching
   2. Validation Resource Caching
      
3. Tomcat 5.5 support
4. Migrated code to the latest WSRP 2.0 schema

 

Pls note that the previous milestones have already provided the following WSRP  version 2.0  feature sets.

1. WSRP 2.0 Eventing.
2. Shared/Public render parameters.

 

The above links also provides sample portlets and configuration instructions to try out these features. If you have questions on how to use the OpenPortal WSRP Project and other comments/suggestions/requests, consider joining the users@wsrp.dev.java.net alias.

Just a repost of the information on Portal Post w.r.t to WSRP version 2.0 milestone 2 binary. Here is the actual post  

The OpenPortal WSRP version 2.0 milestone 2 binary is now available for download. The binary along with install instruction is available on the Open Portal WSRP download page.  This is the second milestone release from the OpenPortal WSRP Project that implements the OASIS WSRP version 2.0 specification. The main intent of this release is to preview the following optional features defined in the WSRP version 2.0 of OASIS specification.

1. WSRP Eventing
2. Shared/Public render parameters
   

Pls follow the instructions in coordination preview document on how to test and use these features that'll help you to understand the implementation.

Here are the links to the complete set of documents for this milestone.

1. Install Instructions
2. User Guide
3. WSRP v2 Coordination samples

Stay tuned for more optional feature implementation in the future milestones of the OpenPortal WSRP version 2.0 project. If you would like to keep track of future announcements and additions to the OpenPortal WSRP Project, please subscribe to the announce@wsrp.dev.java.net alias.

If you have questions on how to use the OpenPortal WSRP Project and other comments/suggestions/requests, we urge you to join the users@wsrp.dev.java.net alias.

Please report any issues that you encounter while trying OpenPortal WSRP version 2.0 milestone 2 to issues@wsrp.dev.java.net.

Check the following thread for the manual instructions of installing and configuring OpenPortal WSRP on Tomcat. The above instructions is validated against the following binaries.

1. Tomcat version 5.5.25
2. Metro version 1.1
3. Portlet Container version 2.0 Beta 2 (2 Jan  2008 build)
4. WSRP latest trunk binary.

Stay tuned to the OpenPortal WSRP aliases for more news related to automatic configuration soon. 

The OpenPortal WSRP version 2.0 milestone 1 binary is now available for download, checkout the following announcement on the OpenPortal WSRP project. 

 
Here are the links to install and user guide.

• Install Instructions
• User Guide

 The above WSRP binary works over the latest OpenPortal Portlet Container 2.0 beta 2 binary, checkout the  following announcement with respect to OpenPortal Portlet Container binary. Here are some links to the Portlet Container documents

• Release Notes
• Installation Instructions
• Article: Understanding the Portlet Container 2.0 beta
• Screencast: How to deploy and test portlets using the Portlet Container

Stay tuned for future announcements on OpenPortal WSRP Project on other WSRP version 2.0 feature implementation, Please subscribe to  announce@wsrp.dev.java.net

The implementation of the WSRP version 2.0 is in full swing in the OpenPortal WSRP Project community. Here is the link to the project wiki page that tracks this project.

• WSRP version 2.0 Project Wiki Page

Apart form this the following documents are also available for review

1. WSRP v2 FSD
2. WSRP Consumer Admin Usecases
3. Eventing Usecases
4. Architecture changes for WSRP v2
5. Project Plan
   

If you have comments or questions, pls join the project and post your queries or comments. Stay tuned for the milestone 1 drop which is expected in the next few weeks also for more features in the future drops.

Here is how you uninstall OpenPortal WSRP and OpenPortal PortletContainer projects after successful installation without having to uninstall the whole glassfish application server. Recently I came across this issue since someone asked about it and this information was not available or documented anywhere.

 

Uninstall OpenPortal WSRP :

Upon successful install of OpenPortal WSRP, The installer would have created a 'wsrp' directory as <glassfish_install>/domains/domain1/wsrp. There is a setup.xml under this directory, invoking the 'uninstall-wsrp' ant target does the job. Here is the example

# ant -f setup.xml uninstall-wsrp.

Make sure you restart the glassfish application server after this.

 

Uninstall OpenPortal PortletContainer :

Similar instructions apply the OpenPortal PortletContainer uninstall procedure. Upon successful install of OpenPortal PortletContainer, the installer would have created a 'portlet-container' directory as <glassfish_install>/domains/domain1/portlet-container. There is a setup.xml under this directory, invoking the 'uninstall-pc' ant target does the job. Here is the example

 

# ant -f setup.xml uninstall-pc.

 Make sure you restart the glassfish application server after this.