How to modify or extend the default portlets shipped with EPP 5?

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Portal (EPP)
    • 5.x

Issue

  • We need to modify the default registration portlet and add some additional fields.
    How can we customize the existing portlets that ship with EPP 5?

Resolution

We recommend to create custom portlets using JSF or Seam with the JBoss Portlet Bridge, thereby using a fully supported stack.

Root Cause

Most of the built-in portlets are based on the WebUI framework from eXo. Unfortunately, this framework is not recommended to be used for custom development, as it lacks an up to date documentation and is not straightforward to use in all scenarios. If customers are willing to follow this path on their own, they could look at the WebUI wiki for additional information:

http://wiki.exoplatform.com/xwiki/bin/view/Portal/WebUI%20Tutorial

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