Antwerkz, Inc.

This release is the migration to the web app. You can now create your application online without downloading anything. Other than your generated application code, of course. I also switched to velocity for templating for finer grained control. Click the “Build your project” link to the left, fill in a couple [...]

When I try to deploy any portlet war in Liferay I get a NullPointerException. Even using the samples they bundle. Has anyone see that and know how to fix it?
15:58:10,703 INFO [com.liferay.portal.deploy.AutoDeployPortletListener] Copying portlets for d:\dl\liferay\deploy\jsf-portlet.war
Deploying jsf-portlet.war
Expanding: d:\dl\liferay\deploy\jsf-portlet.war into d:\dl\liferay\tomcat\temp\20060720155811031
Modifying d:\dl\liferay\tomcat\temp\20060720155811031\WEB-INF\web.xml
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.liferay.util.FileUtil.listFiles(FileUtil.java:260)
at com.liferay.util.FileUtil.listFiles(FileUtil.java:252)
at com.liferay.portal.tools.BaseDeployer.deployDirectory(BaseDeployer.java:265)
at com.liferay.portal.tools.BaseDeployer.deployFile(BaseDeployer.java:308)
at com.liferay.portal.tools.BaseDeployer.deploy(BaseDeployer.java:216)
at com.liferay.portal.deploy.AutoPortletDeployer.deploy(AutoPortletDeployer.java:80)
at com.liferay.portal.deploy.AutoDeployPortletListener.deploy(AutoDeployPortletListener.java:79)
at com.liferay.portal.shared.deploy.AutoDeployDir.scanDirectory(AutoDeployDir.java:133)
at com.liferay.portal.shared.deploy.AutoDeployScanner.run(AutoDeployScanner.java:60)
15:58:11,953 INFO [...]

I pushed up 0.1 this weekend.  I failed to get a run script in the bundle, but it can be run using ant.  The default target is to run the builder.  This is the first and last release as a swing client.  Igor Vaynberg convinced me to write it as a web app.  I started [...]

It’s been on my list for a while, but I finally updated the main site design. I’ve been looking around for ideas and finally found one I liked over at OSWD. I was looking at several possibilities with landscapes of some sort but I really liked the mountains in this one. Since [...]

I love wicket but like most frameworks, starting a new project can be a real hassle. You’re either left to recode everything from scratch or, if you can, copying over an existing project and removing the vestiges of the old project and updating to the new one. This sort of works but tends [...]