3. Manual Installation

This chapter will explain the contents of the Gentics Portal.Node SDK CD. You can then use the installation guide in the Reference Documentation for the server installation to get your development environment up and running manually. See Chapter 1, Introduction for an overview over all documentation resources.

Table 2.2. Installation CD - Directory structure

documentation/All documentation to suit your developer needs. Includes the Gentics Portal.Node SDK Guide itself,the reference docs and the API.
licenses/3rd party licenses distributed with Gentics Portal.Node SDK.
src/3rd party sources distributed with Gentics Portal.Node SDK.
sdk/

Files you need for manual installation are placed here.

  • Portal.Node.war: The Gentics Portal.Node SDK Portal webapp.

  • gentics-portalnode-3-sharedlibs.zip: libraries for your applicationserver.

  • SamplePortletapplication.jar: a sample portletapplication with sources. Simply import into your IDE as web application and deploy it.

  • MyPortletapplication.jar: put your own new developments here.

  • gentics-portalconnector-3-example.zip: Simple Gentics .Node PortalConnector Examples. (See README.txt in this zip file for more information)

  • gentics/: configuration files for the Gentics Portal.Node SDK Portal (should be put into the path represented by com.gentics.portalnode.confpath - usually in tomcat/conf/gentics.

setup.exeWindows Installer, which leaves you with a full-blown IDE for Gentics Portal.Node consisting of Java, Eclipse, Tomcat and the SDK sample files - ready to use!
LICENSE.txt, .rtfThe Gentics license disclaimer.
README.txtThe first thing to read when installing Gentics Portal.Node SDK. It refers you to this document.