• Portlet Guide
  • Quick tutorial: deploying the portlet test suite
  • Deployment
    • What is a portlet preparation? Why do I need it?
    • Deploying through the administration user interface
    • Deploying directly through the file system
  • Using in a Jahia page
    • Portlet instances
    • Portlet roles and Jahia permissions
  • Hello world portlet
    • Requirements
    • Project structure
    • Maven project descriptor
    • Portlet Java code
    • Portlet descriptor
    • Web application descriptor
    • The Tomcat deployment descriptor
    • Building and deploying
    • Redeployment
    • Troubleshooting deployment
    • Learning more
  • Support for Bridges
  • How to share portlet objects?
    • Public Render Parameters
    • Portlet Events
    • Jahia Shared Map
      • How to share a simple object?
      • How to read a simple object?
      • How to share a bean?
  • Performance
  • Using portlets on other application servers
  • Additional resources

Portlet descriptor

The src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/portlet.xml file has the following content:

<portlet-app
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd"
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd">
<portlet>
<description>Hello World as a portlet app</description>
<portlet-name>HelloWorldPortlet</portlet-name>
<display-name>Hello World Portlet</display-name>
<portlet-class>com.mycompany.portlet.HelloWorldPortlet</portlet-class>
<supports>
<mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
<portlet-mode>VIEW</portlet-mode>
</supports>
<portlet-info>
<title>Hello World Portlet</title>
</portlet-info>
</portlet>
</portlet-app>