Spring Portlet MVC

A minimal Spring Portlet MVC project using Maven.

• Java 1.6
• Portlet 2.0
• Spring Framework 3.1.1
• Annotation-based controller configuration

Usage

$ git clone http://github.com/miamidade/spring-portlet-mvc.git
$ cd spring-portlet-mvc
$ mvn package

Deploy

Portlet deployment varies depending on which portal you're using.

If you're using Liferay Portal with Tomcat, just copy the war to the deploy directory.

$ cp target/spring-portlet-mvc.war $LIFERAY_HOME/deploy/

Configuration

Default settings are Java 1.6, Portlet 2.0, and Spring 3.1. All can be configured in pom.xml

<properties>
    <java-version>1.6</java-version>
    <portlet-api.version>2.0</portlet-api.version>
    <servlet-api.version>2.5</servlet-api.version>
    <jsp-api.version>2.1</jsp-api.version>
    <jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version>
    <org.springframework-version>3.1.0.RELEASE</org.springframework-version>
    <org.aspectj-version>1.6.9</org.aspectj-version>
    <org.slf4j-version>1.5.10</org.slf4j-version>
</properties>

Archetype

A Maven archetype, based on this project, is also available.

Add an entry for the archetype in: ~/.m2/archetype-catalog.xml

<archetype>
  <groupId>gov.miamidade</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-portlet-mvc-archetype</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
  <repository>https://raw.github.com/miamidade/maven-repo/master/releases</repository>
  <description>spring-portlet-mvc-archetype</description>
</archetype>

Then run the maven archetype generate command. Follow the prompts to specify the groupId, artifactId, and version for your project.

$ mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local

License

Copyright 2012 Miami-Dade County

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0