Flex within Portal--any fully functional demo codeavailable?

[EricHogberg]

Hi all:

I'm a technical architect trying to do a proof-of-concept of a Flex-based
front-end for a JSR-168 portlet. New to Flex, have worked through the tutorial.

I am unable to get my proof-of-concept working in Websphere 5.1 Portal Server
(our target runtime). This isn't a surprise, given my newbie status. What is
a bit of a surprise, and more than a bit frustrating, is my total inability to
find a working example of this that I could use as a learning aid. I'd really
appreciate war stories and guidance from anyone here who is able to use Flex as
a portlet front-end, since if my proof-of-concept ended right now, I'd have to
rule it out as a display technology and I'd like to give it a better evaluation
before doing so.

FYI, I have read both of Christophe's porlet-related articles already. The
problem with them is that he doesn't provide the web.xml descriptor for his
sample portlets, which renders them much less useful.

Thanks in advance,

-Eric-

[Dave Wolf]

EricHogberg wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I'm a technical architect trying to do a proof-of-concept of a Flex-based
> front-end for a JSR-168 portlet. New to Flex, have worked through the tutorial.
>
> I am unable to get my proof-of-concept working in Websphere 5.1 Portal Server
> (our target runtime). This isn't a surprise, given my newbie status. What is
> a bit of a surprise, and more than a bit frustrating, is my total inability to
> find a working example of this that I could use as a learning aid. I'd really
> appreciate war stories and guidance from anyone here who is able to use Flex as
> a portlet front-end, since if my proof-of-concept ended right now, I'd have to
> rule it out as a display technology and I'd like to give it a better evaluation
> before doing so.
>
> FYI, I have read both of Christophe's porlet-related articles already. The
> problem with them is that he doesn't provide the web.xml descriptor for his
> sample portlets, which renders them much less useful.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Eric-
>
>

Hey Eric,

Have you proven you can get the Flex UI to render in a plain old web app
(POWA. I just made a new one)?

What problems are you seeing?

We have a lot of experience in both Portals and Flex. Although we
havent had an engagement mixing the two I would like to see if we could
be of some help.

--
Dave Wolf
Cynergy Systems, Inc.
Macromedia Flex Alliance Partner
[url]http://www.cynergysystems.com[/url]

Email: [email]dave.wolf@cynergysystems.com[/email]
Office: 866-CYNERGY x85