Liferay IDE Datasheet

 

Liferay IDE Datasheet

OVERVIEW

Liferay IDE is a best-of-breed set of Eclipse plugins that expedites and simplifies plug-in development with the Liferay Portal

platform.

In June 2010, Liferay shipped the first release of Liferay IDE 1.0 Community Edition (CE), which is now freely available to Liferay’s

community of developers. It currently supports existing Eclipse Galileo and Helios releases.

The next version (1.1) is already in development and will include support for the remaining Liferay plug-in project types as well as

more advanced wizards and editors for the Liferay development platform.

An Enterprise Edition (EE) of the IDE is also in the planning stages and will include support for the Websphere, Weblogic, and

Maven environments.

AT A GLANCE

• 7 Liferay development wizards

• 4 Liferay plug-in project types

• Build, deploy, and debug projects on Liferay

Portal Tomcat bundle

• Validation and content assist for all Liferay

   deployment descriptors

• 3 specialized editors for Liferay content

• Supports Liferay Plug-ins SDK

• Eclipse Galileo/Helios Support

BENEFITS

• Quickly create Liferay artifacts using wizards

instead of by hand

• Automatic configuration of Liferay server

runtime inside Eclipse

• Compile time validation that prevents coding

errors

• Supports existing plug-ins SDK development

• Built on the Eclipse platform

LIFERAY IDE FEATURES

• Liferay Plug-ins SDK Support

• Liferay Portal Tomcat Bundle Support

• Liferay Plug-in project types

o Portlet

o Hooks

o EXT

o Layouttpl

o Theme (planned)

• Import/Convert existing SDK projects

• Server support for Liferay Portal Tomcat

• Auto/hot-swap deployment of plug-ins

• Custom servers view for Liferay plug-in projects

• Smart management of Liferay API classpath container

• New Liferay Portlet Wizard

• New Liferay Hook Wizard

• New Liferay Services Wizard

• New Liferay Template Wizard (planned)

• Liferay portlet deployment descriptor validation

• Service.xml visual editor

• Liferay-plugin-package visual editor

• Liferay-hook.xml visual editor (planned)

• Liferay-portlet.xml visual editor (planned)

• Liferay-display.xml visual editor (planned)

• Liferay Template Designer (in-progress)




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