OpenCms vs LifeRay vs Alfresco

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Creating a webscript dashlet in Alfresco

To develop a custom dashlet in Alfresco we need 3 things:

- A Webscript.
- A Jsp.
- A Freemarker template.

1.- Firstly, create a webscript with the actions that you want to show in Alfresco Dashboard. WebScripts WikiPage.

For example:
\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\my_webscript.ftl

2.- Create a Jsp for the dashlet in: \tomcat\webapps\alfresco\jsp\extension\dashboards\dashlets\my_webscript.jsp with this content:

3.- Add to web-client-config-custom.xml the next config:

Finally restart Alfresco and configure the dashboard to show your new dashlet.

Changing the LifeRay context

In LifeRay we can found different types of urls, such as /c, /d, /theme, etc. It would be useful that all urls began by the same string, for example /portal. In that case we´ll have:

/portal/c../
/portal/d../
/portal/theme../

This allows Apache to handle easily the Liferay urls. To do that:

1.- Firstly, shutdown LifeRay.

2.- Edit portal-ext.properties, and add:

portal.ctx=/portal
portlet.virtual.path=/portal

3.- Rename the /ROOT folder to /portal in TOMCAT_HOME/webapps.

4.- Rename "tomcat-6.0.18/conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml"  to "tomcat-6.0.18/conf/Catalina/localhost/portal.xml".

5.- Delete the content of the folders /temp and /work in TOMCAT_HOME (delete the tomcat cache).

6.- Restart LifeRay.

Probably we must redo the Lucene Index in LifeRay control panel. Finally we can go to the LifeRay home page at:

http://localhost/portal