Create Liferay OSGi Module with BLADE CLI

Liferay Provided BLADE CLI tool to create Liferay OSGi modules. BLADE CLI provided many commands and one of the commands is create command. Liferay 7/DXP is providing many OSGi module templates and it will create project skeleton with required configuration files.

As a Developer we simply focus on actual development instead of project configurations. BLADE is also provided way to create modules with two build types Gradle and Maven.

Prerequisite

Install BLADE CLI

https://portal.liferay.dev/docs/7-2/reference/-/knowledge_base/r/installing-blade-cli

http://www.liferaysavvy.com/2017/10/liferay-dxp7-blade-cli-introduction-and.html

BLADE CREATE

The following is BLADE create command with minimum required options.

blade create -t <project-template> -p <package> -c <component-class-name> -v <liferay-version> -b <build-tool> <project-name>

Example Command to create Liferay MVC Portlet OSGi Module

Gradle

blade create -t mvc-portlet -p com.liferaysavvy.sample -c LiferaySamplePortlet -v 7.2 -b gradle sample-gradle-mvc-portlet

Default build type is gradle. You can ignore -b when you are targeting build type is Gradle.

Maven

blade create -t mvc-portlet -p com.liferaysavvy.sample -c LiferaySamplePortlet -v 7.2 -b maven sample-maven-mvc-portlet

Locate to your workspace directory and try above create commands it will create maven and gradle 

Liferay MVC Portlet module.

Maven Liferay Module Project

Gradle Liferay Module Project

Project template list

Use following command to find all available project templates

blade create -l

template list

activator                       api                               content-targeting-report          content-targeting-tracking-action  control-menu-entry                 form-field                        fragment                         freemarker-portlet               layout-template                   modules-ext                        mvc-portlet                         npm-angular-portlet              npm-react-portlet                npm-vuejs-portlet                  panel-app                          portlet-configuration-icon       portlet-provider                  portlet-toolbar-contributor        rest service                       service-builder                service-wrapper               simulation-panel-entry           social-bookmark                 spring-mvc-portlet               template-context-contributor       theme                             theme-contributor                  war-core-ext                   war-hook                           war-mvc-portlet

Author

Meera Prince

Liferay Contributor of the Year 2016
Liferay Top Contributor Award Winner 2015

Liferay Contributor of the Year 2014

Liferay Top Contributor Award Winner 2013

http://www.liferaysavvy.com