Gregory Amerson

Remote IDE Connector 1.0.1

2013-03-29T06:26:20Z

Serveral weeks ago we updated the Remote IDE Connector application to version 1.0.1. This new update fixed the issues that we found with the 1.0.0 version of the Remote IDE Connector. Namely, it works correctly now :) **Update** I forgot to say thanks to the Marketplace team. They did a ton of work to improve Marketplace infrastructure to be able to roll out changes to apps that had bug-fixes such as this. Thanks for everything you do guys!

So Liferay IDE users can now install (or update) this application into their remote portal instances and then setup a new Remote Liferay Portal Server adapter in Liferay IDE to connect to it and use it as a development and deployment target just like they would a local instance of Liferay Portal running on your machine.

To help out new users we've created a special wiki page for now to demostrate how to configurate it. I hope to get this information moved over to official documentation for Liferay IDE in the near future. For now if you have any problems with either the Remote IDE Connector or the Liferay Remote Server Adapter be sure to create a new thread in the Liferay IDE Forums.

Liferay IDE 1.6.2 released - required version for Eclipse Juno SR2 (4.2.2)

2013-03-15T09:26:42Z

Today, the Liferay IDE team has released Liferay IDE 1.6.2. This release is minor release that only fixes a couple of issues found with Eclipse Juno SR compatibility. So if you are using Eclipse Juno SR2 or want to upgrade, you will need to upgrade or install Liferay IDE 1.6.2 first from the normal updatesite URL:

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/juno/stable

Stay tuned to this blog for more updates related to Liferay IDE, namely Remote IDE connector update and also some news about upcoming 2.0-Milestone-1 version of Liferay IDE that will have Liferay Portal 6.2 milestone server adapter support and also support for projects built with the Liferay Maven Plugin SDK. :)

If you run into any issues, please let us know on our forums. Thanks!

Liferay Developer Studio and Liferay IDE 1.6.1 released

2012-12-24T04:45:18Z

Just before the holidays I'd like to let everyone know about the two most recent releases of Liferay developer tooling. Back in November, we released a bug-fix release of Liferay IDE version 1.6.1. Now today we are releasing a new release of Liferay Developer Studio v1.6.1. This release is primarily for bringing Developer Studio up-to-date with the latest Liferay IDE release along with some additional bug fixes from the previous Studio 1.6.0 release. This new version of Developer Studio also includes all of the latest fix-packs for the bundled Liferay Portal and Plugins SDK as well.

Just to recap the previous Liferay Developer Studio release, the most notable feature was the new Kaleo Designer for Java that you can see a demo of here.

http://vimeo.com/48315976

Thanks again and Happy Holidays!

Liferay Developer Studio 1.6.0 with Kaleo Designer for Java released

2012-09-05T09:13:01Z

Today we are pleased to announce the latest release of Liferay Developer Studio version 1.6.0. Here on my blog I usually just cover Liferay IDE releases, so just to bring everyone up to speed, Liferay Developer Studio is our own branded Eclipse-based product that is built on top of Liferay IDE along with some additional enterprise features (e.g. WebSphere server adapter). It also contains the latest versions of Liferay Portal EE and Plugins SDK bundled and pre-configured to work out of the box.

The most notable features for this latest 1.6.0 release are:

Kaleo Designer for Java - Eclipse-based visual designer for Kaleo workflows that is specifically geared for Java developers (see more details below).
Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA2 support - Bundled latest versions of Liferay Portal 6.1 EE GA2 along with Plugins SDK and sample projects.
Liferay IDE 1.6.x - bug fixes from community editon release

If you're ready to give it a try, you can download a trial version here.

Kaleo Designer for Java

Liferay Portal EE already contains a visual Kaleo workflow designer built-in to the Kaleo Forms application. However, we wanted to create a new tool directly targeted at back-end Java developers, so we decided to add this to our Eclipse-based dev environment, Liferay Developer Studio. The Kaleo Designer for Java is a multi-page editor that allows editing of Kaleo workflows either as a visual diagram or a XML source editor. There are also related tools, wizards, and property views, content-assist associated with this visual editor that most Eclipse Java developers have become accustomed to with other tooling. The biggest productivity enhancements for Java developers in this version is the integration of the Java/Groovy script editor for editing Kaleo workflow action and condition scripts and the Freemarker/Velocity template editor for creating notofication templates.

There will be more available articles and extended documentation about the Kaleo Designer for Java in the upcoming weeks, but for now, instead of posting a lot of screenshots, we decided to record a short demo video instead.
http://vimeo.com/48315976

If you are a Java developer and need to create a new or modiify an existing workflow process in Liferay, I hope you will give Kaleo Designer for Java a try.

Liferay IDE 1.6.0 Released

2012-07-19T08:58:14Z

The latest release of Liferay IDE version 1.6.0 has been made available today. Head over to the downloads page if you want to grab an archived updatesite or an "all-in-one" bundle of both Eclipse Juno and Liferay IDE. The new version brings compatibility with the most recent Eclipse Juno (4.2) release. Please use the following updatesite for Eclipse Juno:

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/juno/stable/

If you are using an older version of Eclipse (3.6, 3.7) this latest release is also available to you as an update. From your Eclipse installation that contains Liferay IDE just do Help > Check for updates... If you do not already have a Liferay IDE installation, here is the Eclipse update site URL for new installations:

Eclipse Indigo (3.7.x) : http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/indigo/stable/
Eclipse Helios (3.6.x): http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/helios/stable/

If you find any issues with this new version please head over to Liferay IDE forums and post the issue or create a ticket in JIRA.

In addition to being compatible with Eclipse Juno and several bug fixes, there were several minor enhancements that I'd like to mention from this release below. Also, special thanks to Kamesh Sampath for contributing an enhancement to enable non-default ROOT configurations for Tomcat bundles.

Automated source attachment for Liferay Portal classes

Having access to the Liferay source for debugging Liferay Portal applications is almost a must. This process of attaching source location to jars in Eclipse classpath containers is tedious and you have to do it again for each new project. Now this can be done only once in Liferay IDE and then all new Liferay jars that are added to projects will automatically have the proper source attachment. Simply go to the 2nd page of the Liferay Portal runtime wizard and specify a location (either a jar file or a exploded directory) of the Liferay Portal sources (portal sources are available for each release in portal downloads area).

Then once you create a project that has Liferay jars added (runtime or API classpath container) you will automatically have the sources attached and available when you open Liferay classes.

Added support for supported JSF Component Suites

Recently Neil Griffin added support to the Plugins SDK for additional JSF project templates that support all of the various JSF component suites that are supported on Liferay, e.g., Liferay Faces, ICEfaces, PrimeFaces, etc. In this release of Liferay IDE support** for these various templates has been made available on the 2nd page of the New Liferay Project wizard if you select JSF as your portlet framework.

Thanks Neil for the help with this feature!

Zoom, Print, Save as Image actions available for Service Builder Diagrams

You can now perform several useful actions on service builder diagrams like: zoom, print and save as an Image.

Now you can finally print off a relationship diagram of Liferay Portal services and try to understand it all. FYI, be sure to have several pages loaded in your printer first. :)

Whats next for Liferay IDE?

What up next for Liferay IDE project is version 2.0, which should bring remote portal structured content editing, the much-awaited Maven support along with some better theme development support. If you want to help with testing these new 2.0 features, just add the Juno nightly build URL below:

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/juno/nightly/

** requires nightly build of 6.1.1 portal and 6.1.1 SDK after Jun 21

Eclipse Juno (3.8/4.2) and Liferay IDE

2012-06-25T23:06:41Z

Hello everyone,

Eclipse Juno (3.8/4.2) is scheduled to be released today (June 27th). However, the current stable build of Liferay IDE (1.5.3) is not compatible with Eclipse Juno. It will be a few more days before I can create a new stable build of Liferay IDE (1.6.0) since there are a few remaining issues that need to be resolved.

However, in the meantime we are going to make a Juno compatible build of Liferay IDE available on the nightly build updatesite. Here is the new one that you can use for Juno (updatesite should be available by the 27th).

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/juno/nightly/

Please report any issues or regressions that you find in Liferay IDE features for Eclipse Juno either in JIRA under IDE project or in the Liferay IDE forums.

Thanks everyone!

Important Liferay IDE update for Eclipse 3.7.2

2012-06-08T03:26:25Z

All Liferay IDE users that also use Eclipse Indigo SR2 (3.7.2) are encouraged to apply the latest update to Liferay IDE.

Steps for existing Liferay IDE users..

Open Eclipse
Make sure that the Liferay IDE updatesite is enabled: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/indigo/stable/
Help > Check for Updates...
Apply the update for the new 1.5.3 release

For new Liferay IDE installations...

Download an Eclipse pre-bundled with Liferay IDE 1.5.3
Install new from updatesite: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/indigo/stable/

This release fixes a regression in the New Liferay Project wizard for Eclipse 3.7.2 users where the default output folder for the java web project would cause the classes to not be deployed to Liferay Tomat server when deployed through Add/Remove Modules... wizard.

Here is the full list of fixes for the 1.5.3 release:

http://issues.liferay.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+IDE+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%221.5.3%22+AND+status+%3D+Closed+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&mode=hide

Another important update in this release is an improvement to the Theme project development workflow. Here is how Theme project development worked previously(<= 1.5.2):

Create a new theme project
Deploy to Liferay Tomcat Server through Add/Remove Modules dialog...
Make a change in the _diffs folder under docroot/
Liferay IDE detected this change and would invoke a "ant compile" in the background for the theme
This would copy hundreds of files into the root of the docroot folder (to full compile the theme from the declared parent)
Liferay IDE would publish the delta changes to the docroot of the project out into the webapps/ folder in Tomcat
Tomcat would detect these changes and redeploy if it saw changes to descriptor files (web.xml)
View the theme in the Portal
Make another change to any _diffs resource
"ant compile" is re-invoked and all of the changed files are deployed to tomcat webapps/ folder once again.
Tomcat may redeploy and restart the context
Refresh the browser to see the change to the theme.

This recompiling and redeploying would happen automatically for every change in the _diffs folder no matter how small. The reason for this is that Liferay does not read the css files from the _diffs folder. It reads it from the compiled files in the root webapp (docroot). So to see the changes made in _diff you had to make sure the theme was re-compiled to copy the changes from _diffs out to the parent docroot. This caused lots of problems for tomcat as it had to constantly redeploying and restart the theme context if it saw changes to that many files, which led to instability in the development process.

Now lets look at what happens with Theme projects in latest version of Liferay IDE (1.5.3).

Create a new theme project
During the creation of the project the theme is pre-compiled so it doesn't wait on the auto-compile to happen from first change to _diffs
Deploy to Liferay Tomcat Server through Add/Remove Modules dialog...
View the theme in the Portal
Now when changes are made to _diffs/**/* resource, Liferay IDE detects this change and just copies the single small delta change into the docroot parent.
Auto-publish event is triggered for the Liferay Tomcat server and this same small delta update is made to the theme published in the webapps/ folder in tomcat. Tomcat does not redeploy or restart the context single only a small change (single css or tempalte file) was modified.
Refresh the page in the browser to see the update in the portal

This should be a much improved development experience for Theme developers with Liferay IDE (or Developer Studio). We have more improvements for Theme developers planned for the upcoming 1.6/2.0 release, so now is a good time to head over to the Liferay IDE forums to make a feature enhancement suggestion or report issues found with the latest 1.5.3 release.

Thanks everyone.

Liferay IDE 1.5 Release

2012-01-16T08:04:52Z

Nimen Hao! (Hi Y'all!),

We just released version 1.5 of Liferay IDE (Eclipse plugins). From your Eclipse installation that contains Liferay IDE just do Help > Check for updates... If you do not already have a Liferay IDE installation, here is the Eclipse update site URL for new installations.

For Indigo (Eclipse 3.7.x) users: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/indigo/stable/

For Helios (Eclilpse 3.6.x) users: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/helios/stable/

(click here for detailed install instructions)

There is a new Liferay IDE 1.5 Release page where you can see some details and screenshots about the new release. Here are the most important new features available in this release:

Liferay Hook Configuration Editor
Support for importing Liferay binary plugins as new projects
JSP Debugging for projects deployed to Remote Liferay Servers
Support for Glassfish as a Remote Liferay Server (through server-manager-web Liferay plugin)

Here are a couple of screenshots of the new features in action:

I'll be checking the Liferay IDE forums if anyones has problems with upgrade or installation.

**Update**

Lastly I wanted to mention again a Liferay IDE contributor to this release of Kamesh Sampath. He wrote the new Binary Import wizards with very little help from my part, just knocked out that feature all on his own. Also, he wrote the first version of the liferay-hook.xml before it went through additional revisions leading up to the 1.5 release. Thanks again Kamesh for all your hard work!

New Liferay 6.1 Feature - Remote Development from Liferay IDE

2011-12-21T15:23:25Z

I'd like to mention one of the new features in the upcoming release of Liferay 6.1, which is the remote development and deployment support from Liferay IDE. The idea is that with this feature you can build Liferay projects in Liferay IDE like normal but instead of the Liferay server running locally it is running on a remote host. This is accomplished through two things, 1) new remote server adapter in Liferay IDE and 2) Server manager plugin (new in 6.1) deployed to the remote Liferay server

This feature will be officially available with the Liferay 6.1 CE release, but since it is only in beta, now is a good time to try it out and give feedback.

For those who wish to try this out here are the steps to setting it up.

1. Download the Liferay Portal 6.1 Beta4 Tomcat bundle (Only tomcat is supported in beta4, both JBoss and Glassfish will be supported by 6.1 GA release)

2. Start Tomcat bundle on remote host (or even localhost)

3. Download the Server Manager plugin for 6.1 Beta4 (This plugin provides the API needed by Liferay IDE to administer remote plugins)

4. Deploy Server Manager plugin into remote Tomcat server

5. Install the latest stable or nightly version of Liferay IDE (links are updatesite URLs to use in Eclipse install manager)

6. Create a new server in Liferay IDE, File > New > Server > Liferay > Remote Liferay Server

7. Specify a local tomcat bundle for the runtime stub (this is needed for libraries to compile project)

8. Specify the IP address of remote tomcat server along with Omni admin username/password

Once you have done this you should see the server console log messages printed in the normal Eclipse console view.

9. Create and deploy Liferay projects as usual then publish (deploy) them to the server, see Liferay IDE getting started guide for a walkthrough of this.

Now when you modify files in your project, every 15 seconds it will publish the delta of any changes to remote server. However, you can publish changes immediately using the "publish" action in the servers view. If you want to change the automatic publish rate you can do that in the server configuration editor (double click server in Servers view).

For anyone who decides to try this out and want to give feedback with suggestions or problems please either open a JIRA ticket for the IDE project or enter a new topic on the IDE forums.

Good luck and Happy Holidays!

Liferay IDE 1.4 Release

2011-10-02T16:15:09Z

Hi all,

We just released version 1.4 of Liferay IDE. Help > Check for updates... is the fastest way if you already have it installed. If not here is the URL update site:

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/indigo/stable/
(click here for detailed install instructions)

I hope to increase the speed at which we push out new versions of the IDE. I'd like to have a new release at least every 6-8 weeks. The next release 1.5 will probably land about mid-november.

I've created a Liferay IDE 1.4 Release page where you can see some details and screenshots about the new release. Here are the most important new features available in this release:

Liferay 6.1 (nightly/trunk) recently switched to Tomcat 7 so we've now added support for launching Tomcat7 in Liferay IDE with a new server type.

Also in this new release there is a new portlet configuration editor available by default. Before showing off any screenshots of the editor, I would like to publically thank a Liferay community member, Kamesh Sampath for contributing the code for this editor. He volunteered many hours of his own personal time to build it and is committed to make it a first-class editor for Liferay and portlet developers. Personally it has been a pleasure for me to collaborate with Kamesh over last few weeks working on this editor. I look forward to seeing more excellent features from him on both Liferay IDE and Lifery Portal in the future. If you like the new editor, feel free to drop him a note on his profile page.

That is it for now. I'm actually just about to head to Hong Kong with my familiy this week since its October Holiday here in China and the office is shut down for the week. I'll be checking the Liferay IDE forums at least one a day to help any users with upgrade issues.

Liferay IDE 1.3 Released

2011-07-29T06:20:26Z

Liferay IDE 1.3 Now Available to Download

A new stable release of Liferay IDE, version 1.3, is now available now on the stable update-site URL for existing Helios users here:

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/helios/stable/

If you already have Liferay IDE installed in Eclipse Helios you can check for updates to pull down the new release. If you are has Eclipse Indigo installed, here is the stable update-site URL for Indigo:

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/indigo/stable/

The detailed installation guide for Liferay IDE can be found here. However, it has not been updated with the latest URLs for installing 1.3 but you can use either of the URLs above depending on your Eclipse version.

http://www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.0/development/-/ai/installation

Liferay IDE 1.3 New and Noteworthy

Here are some of the important features that have been released for this release:

Eclipse Indigo support
Remote Liferay Server support for deployment, debugging, etc.
New Service Builder Editor
Vaadin projects now supported for 6.0.x SDKs
Required deployment context support (More info in upcoming blog)
Alloy Taglib support
Better support for Liferay Plugins SDK in workspace

I will be blogging more about each one of these new features in more detail in the days to come. If you have any installation or upgrade issues please ask me over in the Liferay IDE forums.

Good luck!

Eclipse Indigo Update

2011-06-24T19:16:04Z

Just a quick note Liferay IDE users who are wanting to upgrade to Eclipse Indigo. At the moment the stable version of LIferay (1.2.3) does not support Eclipse Indigo. However, the next version of Liferay IDE (1.3) that is due to be out next month does support Indigo. If you want to upgrade to Eclipse Indigo now and continue to use Liferay IDE you will need to install the development build (nightly) of Liferay IDE built for Indigo which can be found here:

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/indigo/nightly/

Since this is a nightly build it will be subject to frequent changes over the next few weeks as the 1.3 release is completed but it should be ready for everyday use in its current state. If you run into issues be sure and either post a question on the Liferay IDE forums or create an issue on the Liferay IDE JIRA project.

Good luck with Eclipse Indigo!

Helios SR2 and Liferay IDE 1.2.1

2011-03-02T13:19:52Z

Hello everyone,

*See Update *

I just noticed that Eclipse has released Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2). Also last week we released a bug fix release for Liferay IDE 1.2.1. Unfortunately I have just verified that the latest Eclipse release (3.6.2 and WTP 3.2.3) is not compatible with Liferay IDE 1.2.1 (as well as previous versions). If you upgrade to Helios SR2 there will be a new blocking issue introduced during publishing of projects (deployment) that will cause it to fail. There is no workaround that I know of at this time other than to use Plugins SDK deployment via "ant deploy" build.

This issue can be fixed but it wont be available until next week, Monday at the earliest. Sorry for the inconveince.

*Update* Version 1.2.2 has been released that contains a fix for the previous incompatibility.. So just "Check for updates..." to get the latest version.

Liferay IDE 1.2 Released

2011-02-11T16:08:28Z

Hello all,

Its been awhile since the last Liferay IDE release as I've been busy on some tooling for our EE customers, however, along the way I've been adding new features and improvements to IDE as well. So we've pushed out a new Liferay IDE v1.2 release today.

As with all previous releases it can be installed (or updated) via the update-site URL:

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/helios/stable

If you need more instructions for installation see the install guide here:

http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Liferay+IDE+Installation+Guide

Here are the highlights of the release:

Portlet UI Framework support
JSF and Vaadin framework support for portlet projects
Improved Ext plugin deploy/undeploy support
Liferay Server config more customizable

To see a longer list of new and improved features see the Liferay IDE 1.2 New and Noteworthy page.

Thanks everyone, hit me up on the Liferay IDE forums with any questions.

*Update*

If you want to try out the JSF or Vaadin support you first have to install a nightly build of Liferay 6.1 from here: http://releases.liferay.com/portal/nightly/ and also you will need to grab a copy of the Plugins SDK from SVN trunk here: http://svn.liferay.com/repos/public/plugins/trunk/

Once you have those two you will be able to use create both JSF and Vaadin portlets.

Importing or Sharing Projects with Liferay IDE

2010-09-21T10:35:25Z

Early this month I was able to visit with many in the Liferay community at the West Coast Symposium. I had a great time discussing some of the issues and hearing some concerns of our users with regards to their development environments and specifically their use of Liferay IDE in their daily work.

Then last week after the latest release of Liferay IDE, I realized that instead of immediately going back and working on new features there were a couple of common user stories that were mentioned at the symposium that needed to be better documented, e.g. 1) How do you import existing plugin projects into the IDE, 2) How do you properly share Liferay IDE projects with other developers through source control.

So the result is a couple of new user guides for Liferay IDE that cover these two topics in detail.

Specifically with the project sharing guide, there are actually a couple of different methods that are possible to properly share Liferay IDE projects in source control. However, both of those user guides are long and pretty detailed which could easily lead to errors, so along with the guides I recorded a couple of short video demonstrating each sharing method:

If you have any comments or questions please ask don't hesitate to ask me over on the Liferay IDE forums as I'll get notified by an email immediately. If you post a comment to the wiki page directly I may not see it as soon. Thanks!

Liferay IDE 1.1 Released

2010-09-15T21:31:36Z

The latest version of Liferay IDE version 1.1 has just been released to the update sites. To see a list of the new features and improvements take a look at the Liferay IDE 1.1 New and Noteworthy.

If you have previously installed Liferay IDE you can just use "Help > Check for Updates" and you should be offered the upgrade.

If you have not installed anything before you can add Liferay IDE to your Eclipse installation from one of the following update-sites:

Eclipse Helios (3.6) - http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/helios/stable/
Eclipse Galileo (3.5) - http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/galileo/stable/
For more details installation guide see wiki page - http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Liferay+IDE+Installation+Guide

If you have any trouble with upgrading or have any questions about the new features, feel free to ask a question over in the Liferay IDE forums. Also, I should be posting another update on the blog once I've had a chance to refresh the Liferay IDE wiki pages as well as add some additional documentation for some new and enhanced features.

Lastly check this wiki page for the Liferay IDE 1.5 Plan that will cover upcoming features in the next version of the Eclipse plug-ins.

Liferay IDE available in Eclipse Marketplace

2010-07-13T21:27:34Z

As as follow-up to the Helios compatible release of Liferay IDE (v1.0.1), I wanted to let everyone know that there is another installation method now available through the Eclipse marketplace. The cool thing is that installing from the marketplace is simple by using the new marketplace client in the Eclipse Helios release. The best part of the process is that you don't need to know the update-site only the name of what you are trying to install. Below are a couple of screenshots of the process:

Launch the new Eclipse Marketplace client:
If you haven't launched the client before, you will need to choose the "Eclipse Marketplace", then you will see this screen:
To install Liferay IDE simply search for "Liferay" and it should find the entry for the IDE and then just click the "Install" button to continue.
Lastly you should see a screen that just confirms you want to install the Liferay IDE plugins. Click "Finish" to continue the installation.
Installation of Liferay IDE should continue like normal.

Note: The Eclipse marketplace is only available in Eclipse Helios release and previous versions like Galileo don't have that feature.

Eclipse Helios support with Liferay IDE 1.0.1 update

2010-07-09T22:02:33Z

The Eclipse Helios release has been available for a couple of weeks now so I wanted to let everyone know that we just released a new update to the Liferay IDE (v1.0.1) in order to support it . This release has a few minor bug fixes but the biggest feature is that it is compatible with Helios (as well as Galileo).

For Eclipse Helios

The new update-site is at the following URL:

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/helios/stable/

To help with how to install this into your Eclipse installation you can refer to my previous blog that mentioned the 1.0.0 release or you can go directly to the Wiki page, Liferay IDE Installation Guide and just substitute the above URL for the update-site location instead of the Galileo URL.

For Eclipse Galileo

If you have already installed Liferay IDE you can simple do a check for updates to get the new 1.0.1 release:

Go to Help > Check for updates...
Select Liferay IDE v1.0.1 update

If you have not already installed Liferay IDE for Galileo yet, you can continue to use the use the previous update-site URL as it contains the new 1.0.1 release, http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/galileo/stable/

If you have any upgrade or installation troubles please head over to the Liferay IDE forums and be sure to let us know: http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/category/4627757

Kudos to Brian Chan, everyone's hero, he was right in the middle of builds for Liferay 6 (coming up on final release) and helped me roll out this update for the IDE in his spare cycles, thanks Brian!

Liferay IDE 1.0.0 Released

2010-06-21T15:33:14Z

Now that Liferay 6.0 RC2 is available, we just released version 1.0 of the Liferay IDE. Thanks to everyone that has been waiting patiently. I know that I promised it last month so I hope it was worth your wait. Please note that the IDE only supports Liferay 6.0 RC2 and beyond at the moment.

For existing eclipse users here is the update site url for Eclipse Galileo SR2.

Update site URL

http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/galileo/stable/

Alternatively, you can download the archived update site for users that can't install from external URL:

liferay-ide-eclipse-updatesite-1.0.0.zip

Here is a screenshot that shows what the installation should look like if you have added the URL properly:

If you don't currently have eclipse, take a look at the detailed installation guide that will guide you in getting what you need to use Liferay IDE.

Going forward I will provide more resources for those interesting in using or contributing to Liferay IDE over on the main Liferay IDE wiki page.

http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Liferay+IDE

On that page you can find more details about Liferay IDE including:

Thanks to everyone on the Liferay team that took time to help the IDE become a reality and thanks to all the Liferay community members who have showed interest and given encouragement over the past few months. Please provide continue feedback on the IDE either here, in the forums, or in JIRA to help improve this tool for the whole community. Good luck!

Liferay IDE 1.0 Preview

2010-08-25T15:42:47Z

Hello everyone,

**Update: fixed video links, also you may want to check out the newest blogs related to the IDE, here and here **

Right now we are targeting the release of Liferay IDE 1.0 to be May 12. Hopefully next week I can make more details available for community members to actually get your hands on the preview build and help test. I know that several of you have offered and I will be taking you up on it, just not just yet. Until then I do have some videos I'd like to share with everyone so you can see where things stand currently. Below is an overview of some of the features that will be in 1.0.

1. Create new plug-in project

2. Portlet Project Deployment

3. New Portlet Wizard

4. New Hook Wizard

5. More Hook Wizard

6. Plug-in Package Editor

Be sure to check back next week and I hope to post more details later on how to help with testing the preview builds before 1.0 is released. Thanks for your patience!

Thanks, send me a note if you are interested in testing the preview builds.