Liferay Spring Portlet MVC

A Liferay Spring Portlet MVC project template using Maven.

Liferay EE 6.2.10.4 (GA1, SP3)
Java 1.7
Portlet 2.0
Spring Framework 4.0.6
Annotation-based controller configuration

Usage

$ git clone http://github.com/psvehla/liferay-spring-mvc-portlet.git
$ cd liferay-spring-mvc-portlet
$ mvn package

Deploy

If you're using Liferay Portal with Tomcat, copy the war to the deploy directory.

$ cp target/liferay-spring-mvc-portlet.war $LIFERAY_HOME/deploy/

Configuration

Default settings are Liferay EE 6.2.10.4, Java 1.7, Portlet 2.0, and Spring 4.0. All can be configured in pom.xml

	<properties>
		<liferay.version>6.2.10.4</liferay.version>
		<liferay.auto.deploy.dir>F:\java\liferay-portal-6.1.20-ee-ga2\deploy</liferay.auto.deploy.dir>
		<java-version>1.7</java-version>
		<portlet-api.version>2.0</portlet-api.version>
		<servlet-api.version>2.5</servlet-api.version>
		<jsp-api.version>2.2</jsp-api.version>
		<jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version>
		<org.springframework-version>4.0.6.RELEASE</org.springframework-version>
		<org.aspectj-version>1.8.1</org.aspectj-version>
		<org.slf4j-version>1.7.7</org.slf4j-version>
	</properties>

Archetype

The main point of this project is to create a Maven archetype.

Add an entry for the archetype in: ~/.m2/archetype-catalog.xml

<archetype>
  <groupId>au.com.redbarn</groupId>
  <artifactId>liferay-spring-mvc-portlet-archetype</artifactId>
  <version>1.3-RELEASE</version>
  <repository>https://raw.github.com/psvehla/maven-repo/master/releases</repository>
  <description>liferay-spring-mvc-portlet-archetype</description>
</archetype>

Run the maven archetype generate command. Follow the prompts to specify the groupId, artifactId, and version for your project.

$ mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local

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