Chapter 2. Getting started with the Liferay development platform
This chapter covers
- Installing a Liferay bundle and setting up a database
- Setting up the Plugins SDK
- Generating plugin projects
- Writing your first portlet
Liferay provides you with an extremely powerful development platform that allows you to do everything from provide your own portlet applications to customize the platform’s core functionality. You probably have all kinds of ideas of what you want to do with your web site: what your users’ first experience should be, how they will interact, and even mundane things like what the registration process will be like. You have the ability to define these features any way you want to with Liferay, but you need to understand where and how this is done before you begin implementing your site. This chapter will give you some direction as to where to start and how to proceed.
But first things first: you need to install Liferay and its development environment before you can begin developing anything on it. You’ll spend the first part of the chapter installing Liferay and the Plugins SDK, and then you’ll move on to your first projects.
Let’s get to it!