NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 Beta Release Notes

The NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 Beta software includes a plugin for the Portlet Container 2.0 Beta software bundled with the Java Application Platform SDK Update 3 Beta release and for the Portlet Container 1.0.2 software bundled with Java Application Platform SDK Update 4.

Note: Also see the NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 Beta Installation Instructions for Java Application Platform SDK Update 3 Beta and Java Application Platform SDK Update 4 and read Developing JSR 168 Portlets with NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 Beta.

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

The NetBeans IDE 6.0 software runs on operating systems that support the Java VM. The NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 Beta software has been tested on these platforms:

• Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) 7/05 (SPARC® and x86/x64 Platform Edition)
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or later
• Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later
• Red Hat Fedora Core 3
  

The NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 Beta software also runs on the following platforms:

• Solaris 8 OS (SPARC and x86/x64 Platform Edition) and Solaris 9 OS (SPARC and x86/x64 Platform Edition)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4
• Various other Linux distributions

Required Software

• The NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 Beta software runs on NetBeans IDE 6.0 or later.

Configuration Information

• The NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 software has the same configuration requirements as the NetBeans IDE 6.0 software.

Known Issues

• When a portlet java file is removed from a portlet application, the corresponding portlet entry in portlet.xml does not get removed.
  Workaround : Delete the portlet entry manually from the portlet.xml a portlet java file is deleted from the portlet application.
• The SDK server and plugin should be installed as root or a local user for the NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 Beta software to work.