Failure deploying Simplest portlet in jetspeed

Question

I am referring to following webpage to build my portlet on Jetspeed 2. Everything is fine, but after deployment, It says- Failed to retrieve Portlet Definition for simplest::Simplest

Following is the jetspeed-deployment.log contents- 03.11.2011 18:21:51 ERROR [org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.impl.StandardDeploymentManager.fireDeploymentEvent():240] Failure deploying E:\Jetspeed-2.2.2\webapps\jetspeed\WEB-INF\deploy\simplest.war 04.11.2011 09:41:33 ERROR [org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.impl.StandardDeploymentManager.dispatch():273] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: WEB-INF/portlet.xml org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.DeploymentException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: WEB-INF/portlet.xml at org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.impl.DeployPortletAppEventListener.deployPortletApplication(DeployPortletAppEventListener.java:224) at org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.impl.DeployPortletAppEventListener.invokeDeploy(DeployPortletAppEventListener.java:207) at org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.impl.StandardDeploymentManager.dispatch(StandardDeploymentManager.java:264) at org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.impl.StandardDeploymentManager.deploy(StandardDeploymentManager.java:178) at org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.impl.StandardDeploymentManager.fireDeploymentEvent(StandardDeploymentManager.java:209) at org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.impl.StandardDeploymentManager$FileSystemScanner.run(StandardDeploymentManager.java:357) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: WEB-INF/portlet.xml at org.apache.jetspeed.tools.deploy.JetspeedDeploy.(JetspeedDeploy.java:182) at org.apache.jetspeed.tools.deploy.JetspeedDeploy.(JetspeedDeploy.java:96) at org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.impl.DeployPortletAppEventListener.deployPortletApplication(DeployPortletAppEventListener.java:219) ... 5 more

Please any reply will be helpful.

Thank You

Answer 1

Are you sure that the configuration in the psml file related to your application has correct portlet name?

- First create new psml, change in it page id name, change title, short title, fragment id of portlet, its name
- In the deployed project, in web.xml change the name to be similar to the folder name in web apps folder

Also in portlet xml file change the portlet name to be similar to the one written in the psml file

Answer 2

After I saw the exception as follows, I saw the file of org.apache.jetspeed.deployment.impl.StandardDeploymentManager.java, at head you will see a method of start(), you can debug this method to find the details. If there is no exception in it, the best way is to check whether the simplest.war project is right or not.