How to develop Liferay portlet using Eclipse
I have written this blog because the portlet development environment of LifeRay is not easy to setup. I am hoping, this blog will help beginners to develop portlet using LifeRay SDK. Step by Step process: W e have to download 5 components, they are: Ant 1.7.x Eclipse Galileo 3.5.x LifeRay with Tomcat bundles LifeRay Plugin SDK LifeRay source LifeRay with Tomcat bundles: At first, we will create a directory as LifeRayPortal. Download LifeRay with Tomcat 6.x. Unzip it inside the LifeRayPortal. In this tutorial, we will unzip all LifeRay components in the LifeRayPortal directory Go to the webapps directory of tomcat. If you see sevencogs-hook and sevencogs-theme directories, please delete those directories. ANT 1.7.x Download ANT tool. The version should be avove 1.7, otherwise it will not work with LifeRay. Put your ANT directory file path in your "Environment Variable". Add ANT_HOME as variable name and your ant directory file path (e.g: c:\ant\) as variable value. LifeRay So...