Liferay 7/DXP is latest portal release from Liferay
Inc. Liferay 7 / DXP came up with many promising features.
Liferay 7/DXP supported module development by using
OSGi framework and its major architectural change from its previous versions.
Before Liferay 7 / DXP, when we talk about Liferay Development,
we always talk about Plugins and now Liferay 7 standpoint, we have bundles.
Liferay 6.2 and before versions, Liferay Application
Development and Portal Customization through Plugins, we have different plugins
types and each one has its own significant in the portal.
Liferay 7 / Liferay DXP have introduced new type of
artifact called Bundle. Bundle is basic unit in the OSGi applications
development.
As we already know Liferay 7 / Liferay DXP is support modular
way of application development and Liferay 7 / DXP have used OSGi to achieve
that capability.
Therefore, in Liferay 7 / DXP each Liferay Application
we can call it as bundle. Liferay customization or adding new features to the
portal can be developed as bundles.
OSGi bundle or we can say Liferay Application bundles
are packaged jar file with set of java and configuration files and it has followed
the OSGi application development specifications. These bundles will be executed
in the OSGi containers.
Now Liferay 7 / DXP application development completely
based on bundles, it means customization and adding new features.
To develop these bundles Liferay has provided
different tools. We use these tools to build and deploy the bundles.
Liferay 7 Application bundles development primarily
using following tools
LIFERAY
IDE
BLADE
CLI
LIFERAY
WORKSPACE
Build
Tools
Maven
Gradle
LIFERAY
IDE
Liferay Inc. always develop its own IDE to develop
Liferay Applications. Now Liferay Inc. have developed Eclipse plugin to develop
Liferay 7 / DXP OSGi bundles.
Liferay IDE will provide GUI to create Liferay 7 / DXP
bundles with two types of build environments
MAVEN
BUILD:
Liferay IDE will create Liferay 7 bundles and it will
use MAVEN to build and deploy the bundles in the Liferay OSGi environment. We
have GUI option to select to build tool while creating Liferay OSGi bundles.
GRADLE
BUILD
Liferay IDE also support Gradle based build for
Liferay OSGi applications. People who
have good hands on Gradle they can choose Gradle build tool.
Liferay IDE plugins internally use the Bndtools framework
to create bundles and Bndtools are specially to develop OSGi bundles. Finally Liferay
IDE based in Bndtools framework.
Please follow the below article for more information
To know more about Liferay IDE follow the below link
BLADE
CLI
Liferay 7 have introduced new Command Line Interface
called BLADE CLI. It’s specially to develop Liferay 7 OSGi bundles and deployed
into the OSGi environment.
Bootstrap
Liferay Advanced Developer Environments shortly call it as BLADE.
BLADE CLI based on GRADLE build tool and it’s
internally use the Bndtools Gradle flavor.
BLADE CLI have set of predefined bundle templates to
generated different skeleton liferay bundles.
BLADE CLI have provided set of commands and options to
choose these templates and its options.
LIFERAY
WORKSPACE
LIFERAY WORKSPACE is managing Liferay applications at
one place. Its generated environment to hold set of liferay applications. LIFERAY
WORKSPACE is not a tool finally its use the BLADE CLI and GRADLE to build and
deploy the applications.
Its Independent environment we can easily move to one
place to other place. It means we can easily move from one platform to other platforms.
Liferay Workspace based on OSGi workspace, introduced
by enroute project to manage OSGi
bundles.
Liferay Workspace holding different Gradle environment
properties so that we can easy to deploy into different environments such as
DEV, UAT and PROD. These configuration has provided in properties file, while
building the application Gradle will pick the given environment properties.
Liferay Workspace have many advantages and follow the
below articles to get more information.
LIFERAY
SAMPLE MODULES
Liferay 7 have provided sample bundles to the
developers to understand Liferay 7 / DXP bundles development. We can BLADE CLI
to get those sample bundles then deploy into your portal OSGi environment
Author
Posts
I recently looked into Liferay 7DXP development choices, and it's been quite a process! The platform's adaptability and durability are genuinely outstanding.On a slightly unrelated note, I've been thinking about professional autobiography writing services. It's remarkable how these services may combine personal and professional autobiography writing service to create captivating stories.
ReplyDelete