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Liferay Portal Systems Development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515986
Length 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Liferay Portal Systems Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Liferay Enterprise Portal FREE CHAPTER 2. Service-Builder and Development Environment 3. Generic MVC Portlets 4. Ext Plugin and Hooks 5. Enterprise Content Management 6. DDL and WCM 7. Collaborative and Social API 8. Staging, Scheduling, Publishing, and Cache Clustering 9. Indexing, Search, and Workflow 10. Mobile Devices and Portlet Bridges

Fast development


What is fast development of plugins? Fast development allows developers to work with exploded plugin WARs instead of having to package them for deployment. For example, if you change JSP files in a plugin, these JSP files will be modified when you refresh the page in your browser. Furthermore, if you update other files (for example, JSF pages, Java beans, servlets, and so on) besides JSP files, these files will automatically be reloaded by the class loader of Tomcat. Obviously, this will save a lot of development time.

How do we make it happen? Firstly, you need to add a new Ant target deploy-exploded inside the file $PLUGINS_SDK_HOME/build-common-plugin.xml as follows:

// after <target name="deploy" depends="war">
// <copy file="${plugin.file}" todir="${auto.deploy.dir}" />
// </target>, add following lines:
<antelope:stringutil string="${basedir}/${plugin.name}.xml"
property="plugin.context.file">
<antelope:replace regex="\\" replacement="/" ...
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