Manually Installing GridSphere Portlets

By popular demand, here is the way to do this the hard way. It works for GridSphere 2.0 and 2.1.

The basic steps to deploying a portlet in GridSphere by hand are the
following (which can also be a check list if things go wrong):
-1. Shutdown tomcat.
0. Edit Tomcat's conf/tomcat-users.xml file and add the line
< user username="gridsphere" password="gridsphere" roles="manager"/>
1. Make sure you have a portlet.xml file.
2. Modify your web.xml file to use GridSphere specific settings. The
Ant task should do this for you.
3. Make sure you have the file gridsphere-portlet.xml in your portlet's
WEB-INF directory. You never need to actually edit this, so you can
copy from one portlet to another.
4. Make sure you have gridsphere-ui-tags.jar in your portlet's
WEB-INF/lib directory.
5. Compile everything and create a war file. Your war file name is
important--it needs to match stuff in web.xml.
6. Copy this war file to tomcat's webapps directory.
7. Create an empty file (using unix's "touch" command) in tomcat's
webapps/gridsphere/WEB-INF/CustomPortal/portlets directory. This should
have the same name as your war file. If your portlet is myjunk.war,
then "touch /path/to/tomcat/webapps/WEB-INF/CustomPortal/portlets/myjunk".
8. Restart tomcat.