A.1. Installing GateIn Portal

To install GateIn Portal, all you need to do is download the bundle of your choice from the GateIn Portal web-site and unpackage it into an appropriate folder on your system. GateIn Portal comes prepackaged with JBoss AS and Tomcat. In this appendix, we’ll use the GateIn-Tomcat bundle to demonstrate how to deploy portlets on GateIn Portal.

Figure A.1 shows the top-level directories that you’ll see when you unpackage the GateIn-Tomcat bundle. In this figure, the bin directory contains batch files or shell scripts for starting GateIn Portal. The webapps directory is Tomcat’s hot deploy directory where you need to copy your WAR files containing portlets. The gatein directory contains the data that’s used internally by GateIn Portal.