SkinService

Platform skin is processed by the SkinService. It is used to discover and deploy skins into the portal.

Configure skins

In eXo Platform 3.5 has a file descriptor for skins (WEB-INF/gatein-resources.xml) which is to specify which portal, portlet and window decorators will be deployed into the skin service. Platform can automatically discover web archives containing this file gatein-resource.xml. The full schema can be found in the lib directory: exo.portal.component.portal.jar/gatein_resources_1_0.xsd.

Here is the gatein-resources.xml file of a sample skin (called "MySkin") which defines the portal skin with its CSS location, window style and its portlet skins:




<gatein-resources>

<!-- define the portal skin -->

<portal-skin>

    <skin-name>MySkin</skin-name>

    <css-path>/skin/myskin.css</css-path>

    <overwrite>false</overwrite>

</portal-skin>



<!-- define the portlet skin -->



<portlet-skin>

  <application-name>web</application-name>

  <portlet-name>HomePagePortlet</portlet-name>

  <skin-name>Default</skin-name>

  <css-path>/templates/skin/webui/component/UIHomePagePortlet/DefaultStylesheet.css</css-path>

    <overwrite>false</overwrite>

</portlet-skin>



  <!-- define the window style -->

<window-style>

    <style-name>MyThemeCategory</style-name>

    <style-theme>

      <theme-name>MyThemeBlue</theme-name>

    </style-theme>

    <style-theme>

      <theme-name>MyThemeRed</theme-name>

    </style-theme>

</window-style>

</gatein-resources>