Plugin portlet project

Liferay plugins SDK provides a set of default templates such as EAR, Ext, hook, layout template, portlet, theme, and so on. Using these templates, you can build your own plugin projects easily. This section is going to introduce the portlet project's default template.

Naming conventions and filter mappings

Liferay has standardized file naming conventions and filter mappings for plugins. The following are the standardized rules for naming conventions and filter mappings:

• All stylesheet assets are placed in a css subfolder, including stylesheets written in JSP. The main stylesheet asset is named main.css. When any stylesheet is written with the jsp functionality, a css_init.jsp is included in the docroot directory. If no stylesheets require the jsp functionality, then css_init.jsp is not included.

• Portlets are wrapped with a CSS class that will be injected into the DIV that wraps the viewable content. This class name will be based on the name of the plugin package. For...