Bootstrap Liferay Advanced Developer Environments(BLADE)

This small experiment aims to provide bootstrap project environments for all the major build tools in common use for Java projects so that Liferay development can start quickly and easily.

Software/Tools/Specifications	Version
OSGI Core	5.0
OSGI Compendium	5.0
OSGI Annotations	6.0
Liferay Portal	7.x(Development)
Bndtools	2.4.0.M2

Projects

The template projects are categorized based on the build tools,

• maven - these are set of Liferay projects that can be bootstrapped on to maven development environment
• bndtools - these are set of Liferay projects that can be bootstrapped on to bndtools based development environment
• gradle - these are set of Liferay projects that can be bootstrapped on to gradle based development environment

The projects also demonstrate how to use various frameworks like:

• Blueprint
• Declarative Services(DS)
• OSGI API

Maven

• /maven/sample-maven-blueprint

A maven project which uses Blueprint for registering a portlet.

• /maven/sample-maven-ds

A maven project which uses the DS (Declarative Services) for registering a portlet.

• /maven/sample-maven-osgiapi

A maven project which uses the raw OSGI APIs for registering a portlet.

Bndtools

• cnf

The Bndtools configuration project

• /bndtools/sample.bundle.bndtools.blueprint

A bndtools project which uses Blueprint for registering a portlet.

• /bndtools/sample.bundle.bndtools.ds

A bndtools project which uses the DS (Declarative Services) for registering a portlet.

• /bndtools/sample.bundle.bndtools.osgiapi

A bndtools project which uses the raw OSGI APIs for registering a portlet.

Integration Points

The following are the list of Liferay Integration points that are demonstrated as part of these projects,

• javax.portlet.Portlet

• com.liferay.portal.kernel.portlet.bridges.mvc.ActionCommand The project sample.bundle.bndtools.ip.actioncommand demonstrates this integation point. It integrates the action command named greet with portlet greeter.

  __NOTE:__ To see how this example works, a portlet plugin with a portlet named **greeter** (javax.portlet.name='greeter') is to be deployed.  The command adds a key `greeting_message` to Liferay SessionMessages, along with a session attribute `GREETER_MESSAGE`. You can independently deploy the bundle `sample.bundle.bndtools.ip.actioncommand` a.k.a refresh the bundle without the need to redeploy the Portlet plugin.
  

• java.util.ResourceBundle

License

License

Contribution

These templates can be copied freely and contributions are welcome.

References

OSGI R5

OSGI Compendium R5

Blueprint

Bndtools