Liferay IDE Getting Started Tutorial

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Installation #

If you have not already installed Liferay IDE view Liferay IDE Installation Guide for a detailed walk-through of installation.

Requirements before getting started #

1. Liferay Portal 6.0 (RC2 or greater) downloaded and installed (or download in the IDE itself)
2. Liferay Plug-ins SDK 6.0 (RC2 or greater) downloaded and installed (or download in the IDE itself)
3. Eclipse Helios/Galileo Java EE for developers package -
see the Liferay IDE Installation Guide for more information.

Note: earlier versions of Liferay, e.g. 5.x, are not supported yet by the Liferay IDE



Liferay Plug-ins SDK Setup #

Before you can begin creating new Liferay plug-in projects, a Liferay Plug-ins SDK and Liferay Portal must be installed and configured in the IDE.

1. Open Eclipse with Liferay IDE installed.
2. Open Preference page for Liferay > Installed SDKs ( Go to Window > Preferences > Liferay > Installed SDKs )


3. If you have not already downloaded the Liferay Plug-ins SDK for your portal version you can download it from the sourceforge.net Liferay downloads page. Liferay plugin sdk is located available in the "portal" folder. In the "portal" folder, select the Liferay version matching the Liferay version. Within this folder, look for liferay-plugins-sdk-x.x.x.zip (usually the last file).
4. Add your SDK using the Add button which brings up the Add SDK Dialog:

5. Browse to the location of your Plug-ins SDK installation.
6. The default name is the name of the directory but you can change it if you wish.
7. Select OK and you should see your SDK in the list of Installed SDKs.

Note: multiple SDKs can be added to the preferences but you will need to select at least one SDK to be the default which is represented by the SDK that has the checkbox selected.

Note: if you have version 6.0.4 of Liferay Portal and the Plugin SDK, you will need to change your build.properties file. The SDK plugin assumes you have installed the SDK at the same level (same directory) as the portal directory. In the line

app.server.dir=${project.dir}/../bundles/app_server_name of build.properties you have to change bundles with the name of the Liferay portal installation directory e.g. liferay-portal-6.0.4.
Otherwise, portlets created with the SDK plugin will not be deployed by Ant.

Note: multiple SDKs can be added to the preferences but you will need to select at least one SDK to be the default which is represented by the SDK that has the checkbox selected.

Note: if you have version 6.0.4 of Liferay Portal and the Plugin SDK, you will need to change your build.properties file. The SDK plugin assumes you have installed the SDK at the same level (same directory) as the portal directory. In the line

app.server.dir=${project.dir}/../bundles/app_server_name of build.properties you have to change bundles with the name of the Liferay portal installation directory e.g. liferay-portal-6.0.4.
Otherwise, portlets created with the SDK plugin will not be deployed by Ant.

To Continue see: Liferay Portal Tomcat Runtime / Server Setup

Cheers..!!
Gaurav

Download and Install liferay

First download the community version with tomcat server from the liferay website
or Click Here


Unzip the contents to a suitable location.

Open the bin directory

And click on the startup.bat file to start and shutdown.bat file to shutdown.



To change the server standard time.

Open the setenv.bat in an editor and change the –Duser.timezone

-Duser.timezone=Asia/Delhi

Restart the Server .




For Database Settings

log into the MySql command line editor.

mysql> create database `lportal` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

create a portal-ext.properties file in \liferay-portal-6.0.6

Add the following Lines to connect to MySql Database.

#
# MySQL
#
jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEn
coding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false
jdbc.default.username=root
jdbc.default.password=root

save and restart.

Check installation success in MySql

mysql>use lportal ;
mysql>show tables ;


A total of 185 rows indicating 185 tables must be shown.


Thats it, You are done and now you can start development on Liferay !!!



Cheers..!!

Gaurav