Introduction
The GridSphere User's Guide describes how to install and configure GridSphere. For more information on developing and packaging portlets, please consult the GridSphere PortletReference Guide and the GridSphere Tutorials. The current implementation is based upon the GridSphere Technical Design Document. The GridSphere portal framework comes in both source and binary forms. Binaries can be created from the source code and in both cases, the build environment is generally the same. The GridSphere source code comes with a README file explaining how to build the binary distribution. Both source and binaries come packaged with all the necessary third party libraries and requires a GridSphere compatible servlet container, Tomcat 5.x is supported.
Required Tools and Applications
Jakarta Tomcat Servlet Tomcat 5.0.25+, is required. (Currently, only Tomcat fully supports the Manager web application that allows for dynamic portlet management.) (Make sure you get the full Tomcat version and not the Light Edition (LE))
