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Vaadin 7 + OSGi + Liferay 6.2 CE GA4
Dear Vaadin + Liferay Experts,
I am experimenting with developing liferay portlets as vaadin based osgi bundles. With Eclipse Luna SR2 I created a plugin project named com.example.servlet.vaadin.osgi (see attached file simple_vaadin_osgi_servlet.zip) that is targeted to run with the Equinox OSGi framework.
Using the steps mentioned in OSGi and Vaadin - Part 1 (https://vaadin.com/blog/-/blogs/osgi-and-vaadin-part-1) and Vaadin & OSGi: managing the classloader (https://floriansblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/vaadin-osgi-managing-the-classloader/) I managed to created a working vaadin osgi project. Everything work fine. You may use the included launch configuration (Vaadin OSGi Servlet.launch) to run it in the OSGi environment. The output is visible at http://localhost:8082/
Next, I wanted to experiment whether I can run such a vaadin application in a non-osgi based environment. To do this I needed a war and so using the Eclipse Libra Tool - WAR Products (http://download.eclipse.org/libra/releases), I created a war file from the bundle. I created a warproduct file (vaadinosgi.warproduct) based on the launch configuration (Vaadin OSGi Servlet.launch) and exported all the required and optional bundles/plugins to a war file (com.example.servlet.vaadin.osgi.war). I deployed this to an Apache Tomcat 7 server. If you are using an Eclipse environment to start the Tomcat server, then you need to deploy the war to the <eclipse_workspace>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\webapps\ folder. Sometimes a restart maybe required for the deployment of the war file. The war get deployed and the vaadin application is working. The output is visible at http://localhost:8082/com.example.servlet.vaadin.osgi. So everything works fine here as well.
As the next step, I wanted to see if I could deploy it to the Liferay portal. I copied the war file to the deploy folder. It gets deployed and I am able to add it as portlet in the portal page. However, I am getting the following error:
Failed to load the bootstrap javascript: ./../../../../VAADIN/vaadinBootstrap.js
I tried the following steps to rectify the error with no effect
- I tried to manually update the vaadin version of liferay as described in https://vaadin.com/book/vaadin7/-/page/portal.liferay.html#portal.liferay.remove.
- Using the Vaadin Liferay Control Panel tool https://vaadin.com/directory#!addon/liferay-control-panel-plugin-for-vaadin. The tool/add-on installed properly, but the Vaadin upgrade failed.
- Using the Vaadin 7 Control Panel tool from Liferay (http://www.liferay.com/web/26526/blog/-/blogs/updating-vaadin-7-shared-environment). The tool upgraded the vaadin version successfully, but I keep receiving the same error
I tried to check whether the war is not deployed correctly. When I accessed http://localhost:8080/com.example.servlet.vaadin.osgi/ on the liferay server, I could see the Vaadin application.
Could someone kindly tell me what I am doing wrong?
Cheers
Arun
Honestly it's amazing that you could load it as a portlet because the attached zip file has none of the standard portlet deployment descriptor (xml) files.