BLADE CLI is Liferay DXP/7 Application
Development Tool to create and deploy Liferay 7 Modules.
As we know that Liferay 7 introduces
modularity to develop Liferay applications and BLADE is providing command line
interface to create and deploy the application modules into Liferay Portal
Module Framework.
BLADE have set of predefined commands to
create different types of module to customize or create new features in Liferay
Portal Environment.
It is really a different king of
experience to develop Liferay OSGi bundles than regular web application
development.
Please follow the below articles to know
more about BLADE CLI and its commands.
Liferay have provided Liferay Workspace Installer
to install BLADE CLI in our local machines. Installer is available for all
kinds of OS environments like Windows, Linux and Mac. BLADE CLI is available as
part of Liferay Workspace Installer. Liferay Workspace is manage
the Liferay Modules and It configuration. We will more details of Liferay Workspace in the future
articles.
Note:
Before Liferay Workspace Installer BLADE
CLI used the Java Package Manager (JPM)
to install BLADE CLI and we have other option as well that is directly download
BLADE CLI java JAR file then simply execute using Java JAR command. Liferay Workspace Installer is way to install BLADE CLI and it is recommended.
Java Package Manager(JPM)
Java Package Manager(JPM)
Step:
1
Go to following link to download Liferay
Workspace Installer.
We can also go to Liferay IDE Download page
and Select Liferay Workspace Installer in the Others Download dropdown.
Based on your Operating System download
appropriate Installer and run in your machine.
The following screen shows you the Liferay
Workspace Installer Download page.
Step:
2
In this example, I am showing for the
Windows Operating System. Once you downloaded the Liferay Workspace Installer,
double click in file then it open dialog. Click on Next
Step:
3
Here we have option to select directory
for initialize the Liferay Workspace. However, here we would like to install
only BLDE CLI so just select “Don’t Install
Liferay Workspace Directory” then click on next.
Note:
Sometimes you can see the option to select
Liferay portal Server. Either we can chose Liferay 7 Community Server bundle Or
Liferay DXP server bundle.Select “Liferay Community Server Bundle”
as we are using Liferay 7 Community Edition and it is free to use. If you
already have Liferay DXP license then select Liferay DXP bundle.
Step:
4
Once you click on Next it will show dialog
that “Setup is now to being install” then click on next.
Step:
5
Finally it installed all required thing
and it shows finish dialog then click on finish. Now BLADE CLI installation is
completed.
Step:
6
Once installation is completed then open
Windows Command Prompt and type “blade”
then you can list of commands. If you see all these commands, it means BLADE
CLI successfully installed otherwise you can see 'blade' is not recognized as an internal or external command.
Now you can play with BLADE CLI commands.
You can create and deploy the Liferay DXP/7 modules. Here you can find all
available commands.
Note:
In this installation, we only installed
BLADE CLI. It is recommended to initializing the Liferay Workspace through
installer option. Liferay Workspace has provided the way to manage modules and
deploy into different types of run time environment like DEV, UAT and PROD.
BLADE CLI also have command “blade init” to initialize the Liferay
Workspace. We can create multiple Liferay Workspace based on our needs.
The following are the list of BLADE CLI
commands.
blade convert
blade create
blade deploy
blade gw
blade help.
blade init
blade install
blade open
blade samples
blade server
blade sh
blade update.
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