Open Grid Computing Environments Portlets

The OGCE research project has been developing JSR 168 standards compliant portlets and is supporting uPortaland GridSphere portals.

The current distribution can be found here

The following installation instructions are provided in the README.txt file.

BUILDING AND RUNNING WITH GRIDSPHERE

0. To run in GridSphere, first download and install GridSphere. Youshould set your CATALINA_HOME and ANT_HOME environment variables.

1. GridSphere normally runs in Tomcat 5.0.2x. If you want to run inTomcat 5.5.x, you should a) install the java 1.4.2 compatibility packageas instructed above, and b) copy ant.jar and ant-launcher.jar fromTomcat 5.0.2x into 5.5.x's common/lib.

2. Edit ogce2/project.properties. You must have the following: - portal.container.provider=gridsphere - tomcat.home should be correct - user.home is inherited from Java system properties.

3. Run "maven gridSphereDeployAll".

4. Start Tomcat, login to GridSphere as the user "root" (no password). Youshould see the available portlets and can add them to your display.