Liferay Customization

Question

Hi all,

I am new to Liferay portal development , just i run the chat portlet plugin from the bundle liferay 5.2.2 , thing i need to do further is .

• I need to run liferay bundle under eclipse , so that i should have the control to modify code , templates ....... (customizable)

  How can I do the above , please suggest me any link to do the development.

  I tried using ext (5.2.2), downloaded from liferay site ,build and deployed . but I am not able run that.

Note : If i run ext, whether it will have all the features of liferay portal say 5.2.2 . so that i can enhance from there.

Please suggest me any link or an example how to run ext in eclipse IDE.

regards Mahesh

Answer 1

Liferay Ext Environment is very powerful but might be an overkill. As you are beginner I would recommend you to look at Liferay Hooks. It's newer than Ext-mechanism, it's definitely easier to make it work and I find it sufficient for most of the customization use cases.

Some links:

• http://www.liferay.com/web/rauge/blog/-/blogs/portal-hook-plugins
• http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Portal+Hook+Plugins