Developing Portlets and Themes Using NetBeans Portal Pack 3.0 for Sun GlassFish Web Space Server

The Portal Pack 3.0 provides a set of plug-ins for NetBeans^TM IDE to support the portlet application development life-cycle of within NetBeans IDE. Using these set of plug-ins, developers can develop, package, deploy, and test portlets within the NetBeans IDE. By automatic code and Deployment Descriptor generation, the Portal Pack helps developers to develop portlets quickly. Portal Pack plug-ins provide a tight integration with portal servers such as the Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0, Liferay Portal Server, Sun Java System Portal Server 7.x, and OpenPortal Portlet Container on java.net to support deployment and undeployment of portlets on both the local and remote servers.

For more information on how to develop portlets using Portal Pack 3.0 on NetBeans IDE, see Using Portal Pack 3.0 Plug-ins to Create Portlets on NetBeans 6.5 IDE.

NetBeans Portal Pack also provides as alternative to ViewDesigner plug-ins for developing themes. For the information on developing themes using Portal Pack plug-ins, see http://www.netbeans.org/kb/65/web/portal-pack-themes.html or http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/portal-pack-themes.html.

For the information on developing themes using ViewDesigner plug-ins, see Developing Themes Using the ViewDesigner Plug-in in Sun GlassFish Web Space Server.