Creating a Portal Service

Start the Portal Application Object wizard by right-clicking the portal application project and then selecting New  Create Portal Application Object.

Select the portal application project in which to add the portal service, and then click Next .

Select Portal Service , and then click Next .

In the Portal Service window, enter the following:

1. Name: The name of the portal service. This value is automatically added to the portalapp.xml file for the portal application.

2. Class Name: The name of the Java class created for this portal service. Generally, the portal name and the class are the same.

3. Package Name: The name of the package for the newly created Java class. This field is optional.

Click Finish . The following items are created automatically:

• A Java interface that extends IService is created in the src.api folder. The interface defines a constant for the service key.

  The name of the interface is the name of the service, preceded by an I .

• A Java class that extends the new Java interface is created in the src.core folder. The class contains default implementations for all the methods defined by IService .

• A <service> element for the new service is added to the portalapp.xml file of the portal application.

In the interface, set the service key constant ( KEY ) to the fully qualified name of the service, which is the name of the application, a period, and the name of the service.

For example, if you defined an portal application called myApp and a service called myService , the fully qualified name of the service would be myApp.myService .

Add custom methods for the service:

1. Define the methods in the interface.

2. Implement the methods in the implementation class.