[PB-69] Groovy Portlet Bridge for rapid dev: Parse, instantiate, invoke and auto-refresh a groovy script portlet

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.3
• Component/s: groovy
• Assignee: Ate Douma
• Reporter: Woonsan Ko
• Created: 13/Jun/07 04:54
• Updated: 22/Jun/07 10:05
• Resolved: 14/Jun/07 08:53

Description

A new bridge for groovy scripting support for rapid development.

The GroovyPortlet is expected to do the followings:

• It parses groovy script source of portlet and instantiate the script portlet.
• The groovy script source can implement anything just like Java based portlets.
• GroovyPortlet delegates all methods of Portlet interface to the groovy script portlet.
• If it is set to auto-refresh mode, GroovyPortlet detects and refresh the script source automatically.

A groovy script portlet can be implemented like Java-based portlets, and so developers can use any techniques used in Java.
For example, a groovy script portlet can extend org.apache.portals.bridges.common.GenericServletPortlet to simplify implementation.
Therefore, GroovyPortlet is very simple, but it will be very useful for developers.