Summary

This chapter discussed how to set up, build, and deploy the portal core and plugins in the Eclipse IDE. Then it discussed how to use Service-Builder to generate services and models, and how to add new features to the Service-Builder. It also addressed how to populate the default data, how to use the default project creation and templates, and how to set up fast development of plugins with Tomcat.

In the next chapter, we are going to use Plugins SDK for building generic MVC portlets.