Announcements Portlet Installation

Step-By-Step Installation Guide

If you're feeling adventurous, download the bleeding-edge source from trunk:
```
git clone https://github.com/jasig/AnnouncementsPortlet announcements-portlet
```
If you aren't feeling adventurous, use the most stable tagged release, currently 1.1-M1:
```
git clone announcements-portlet

git checkout 1.1-M1
```
Make sure you have Maven2 installed and that you can run the following command from your command line:
```
mvn -version
```
Make sure the javascript.jQuery.include property in src/main/resources/configuration.properties is set to the correct value: true for uPortal 3.1 or later or any portal that does not provide jQuery in the global JavaScript namespace; false for uPortal 3.0.x or any portal that provides jQuery in the global JavaScript namespace. The default is true. This setting allows Ajax features in the portlet to function properly.
If you are only testing the portlet, skip this step; otherwise, edit the datasource.properties file to reflect your database settings and add your JDBC driver to the pom.xml.
In the announcements-portlet directory, run
```
mvn package
```
Once the project is built, you'll have a file called Announcements.war in the target directory.
Deploy the portlet by running
```
ant deployPortletApp -DportletApp=/path/to/Announcements.war
```
...in the uPortal source directory on your target server.
Add the two portlets to your portal:
- uPortal 2.5.x and 2.6.x format:
  - Announcements.AnnouncementsDisplay
  - Announcements.AnnouncementsAdmin
- uPortal 3 format:
  - Portlet Web Application Path: /Announcements
    Portlet Name: AnnouncementsDisplay
  - Portlet Web Application Path: /Announcements
    Portlet Name: AnnouncementsAdmin
Restart Tomcat if you get any fussiness from the portlet. If you have issues, ask us on the portlet-dev mailing list.

Optional Build Settings

You may want to take advantage of the following options, depending on your circumstances.

Disabling the JSPC Maven Plugin

The JSPC Maven Plugin provides support to precompile your JSPs and have them included into your WAR file. But while performing some customization of the Announcements Portlet, we have learned that the use of the JSPC plugin makes it difficult to alter JSPs via a maven overlay, so we provide the option to disable it.

Use the disableJspc maven profile to build the Announcements Portlet without the JSPC Maven Plugin

mvn clean package -P disableJspc

Use this option when you build the Announcements Portlet itself, then JSPs in your overlay project will properly override those in the original announcements WAR archive.