Liferay Portal Development with Eclipse
Prerequisite Following software required to develop liferay portals 1. make sure JDK 6 or above installed in your machine 2. get the Eclipse kepler version from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php?release=kepler 3. following liferay archives download from below link i) bundle with tomcat v6.2 ii) plugin SDK v6.2 https://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/available-releases NOTE : liferay plugin SDK has it own way of development environment which uses ANT as build tool. hence i would recommend not to use maven for liferay development. Development Environment Setup 1.Launch eclipse and create eclipse workspace 2.Install liferay plugin for eclipse using http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/latest/milestone/ 3.Extract liferay bundle and plugin SDK archives into same directory make sure folder shouldn’t have any spaces C:/liferay/liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2 C:/liferay/lif