Converting Lifeproject to use Maven

[Florian K., modifié il y a 11 années.]

Hi,
first off all i use Eclipse juno and m2e /m2e-wtp to develop projects, since liferay uses Ant naturally i wanted to take a look at its new Maven support via Liferay IDE2.0 EA
I tried to use the new Liferay IDE 2.0 EA to convert an exsiting Liferay Project to use Maven (using Reference to get things going)

Now coming to the point I have to reimport my exsiting project things don't work, i tried to build a new simple project file (via "new Project -> Liferay ->LiferayProject->Portlet") and tried to reimport it as a maven file. I think there might be my mistake since i was not able to tell LiferayIDE 2.0 EA to use Maven.

What are the excact steps to get a portlet createt in liferay to use maven?


Thanks

[Gregory Amerson, modifié il y a 11 années.]

Hello Florian,

There is no "convert" support at the moment. You will want to follow this ticket for that support. However, you can create new projects or import existing maven/m2e projects that use the liferay-maven-plugin.

But if you don't have any liferay projects that are maven based and use the "liferay-maven-plugin". Then you can at least create your first one by creating a "File > New Maven Project" and select the "liferay-portlet-archetype" from the nexus catalog.

Once you have done that, when Liferay IDE 2.0 tries to configure the project it will fail because of the ${liferay.XXX} properties don't resolve to good directories. Once you satisfy that with either a parent pom or a profile (or directly in pom.xml with properties) then you can "update" it again "Right click > Maven > Update Project...". Then the Liferay configuration should succeed and you will see the project decorated with a "L" icon. Now they are full LiferayIDE EA2.0 projects.

Hope this helps!

[Florian K., modifié il y a 11 années.]

Hi Greg,

thanks a lot or your hints ^^, I didn't get it that there's no convert happening. Now I got a Maven based project and can experiment with it.