Liferay Eclipse Setup

Liferay Folder Structure

1. create Liferay folder in C drive

2. unzip Liferay tomcat 6.0 bundle (liferay-portal-tomcat-6.0-5.2.3.zip) to Liferay folder

3. unzip Liferay plugin SDK (liferay-plugins-sdk-5.2.3.zip) to Liferay/plugins folder

4. unzip Liferay EXT (liferay-portal-ext-5.2.3.zip) to Liferay/EXT folder

5. unzip Liferay Portal Source (liferay-portal-src-5.2.3.zip) to Liferay/portal folder

After above steps folder structure will as bellow

      c:\Liferay

            - data

            - deploy

            - EXT

            - license

            - plugins

- portal

            - tomact-6.0.18

 

Eclipse Setup

 

1. Start Eclipse and create three JAVA projects (plugins, EXT, Portal) as follow:

 

2. Create plugins project

• Create New JAVA Project

• Goto > File > New > Java Project

• Project Name > plugins

• Select "Create Project from existing Source"

• Click on browse and select directory plugins (liferay-plugins-sdk-5.2.3)

• Click Finish

3. Create EXT project

• Create New JAVA Project

• Goto > File > New > Java Project

• Project Name > EXT

• Select "Create Project from existing Source"

• Click on browse and select directory EXT (liferay-portal-ext-5.2.3)

• Click Finish

4. Create Portal project

• Create New JAVA Project

• Goto > File > New > Java Project

• Project Name > portal

• Select "Create Project from existing Source"

• Click on browse and select directory Portal (liferay-portal-src-5.2.3)

• Click Finish

5. Run Configuration Settings

 

• Open "Run Configurations..." under the Run Menu

• Under Java Applications node in the tree, right click and "New"

• Click on New_Configuration and change Name: Liferay

• On Main tab, select the portal source code project or your Plgins project

• In the Main class put org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap, don't check any check boxes

• Go to Arguments tab, in the Program arguments type: start

• In VM arguments put like:

-Xmx512m
-XX:PermSize=32m
-XX:MaxPermSize=160m
-Dfile.encoding=UTF8
-Duser.timezone=GMT
-Dcatalina.base=-Xmx512m
-Djava.security.auth.login.config=C:/Liferay/tomcat-6.0.18/conf/jaas.config
-Dcatalina.base=C:/Liferay/tomcat-6.0.18
-Dcatalina.home=C:/Liferay/tomcat-6.0.18  
-Djava.io.tmpdir=C:/Liferay/tomcat-6.0.18/temp

• In Classpath tab, remove ALL User entries, do NOT remove the JRE System library

• Select User Entries and "Add External Jars", find the bootstrap.jar file from the ${tomcat-root-folder}/bin folder and add only that one

• In the Source tab, select any related Java project (EXT, Plugins, Portal), but also the main project. For example, if you want to also debug a plugin, add it's source path here

• Under Common tab check Run (if we want debugging then check Debug)

• Apply all changes

• Run Liferay from Run Icon (View output on console)

• Check Liferay server on http://localhost:8080