Spring MVC portlet template doesn't work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 6.2.10 EE GA1
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Dev Tools > Plugins SDK
• Labels: None

The Spring MVC portlet template ([liferay-plugins]/tools/templates/portlet_spring_mvc_tmpl/**) has the following issues:

1. Unresolved build time dependencies
2. Null portlet request dispatcher prevents the portlet from showing its content. Compare the foo-*no-content.png with foo-*with-content.png

ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-50][MVCPortlet:357] null is not a valid include

Steps:

1. In Liferay-Plugins-SDK/portlets, execute command create foo-spring-mvc "Foo Spring MVC" spring_mvc
2. ant compile
   ... resolve requirements (see suggested fix 1)
3. ant deploy
4. Add the portlet to a page

Actual Results:

• ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-50][MVCPortlet:357] null is not a valid include
• Content doesn't show in the portlet window

Expected Results:
Portlet shows content without error.

 Suggested fixes:

1. These required dependencies should be added to the liferay-plugin-package.properties file's portal-dependency-jars property:

• spring-asm.jar
• spring-web-portlet.jar
• spring-web-servlet.jar

2. The resulting portlet.xml file should specify the following portlet class instead of Liferay's MVCPortlet class:

<portlet>
...
<portlet-class>org.springframework.web.portlet.DispatcherPortlet</portlet-class>