Can there be two ext plugins?

[Fakhruddin S Mushki, módosítva 10 év-val korábban]

Using Liferay 6.2 bundled with JBoss7 AS.

Can there be two ext plugins installed in a portal? If yes, wont there be any conflict between the common files? Like portlet-ext.xml etc..



Please guide.

[Mika Koivisto, módosítva 10 év-val korábban]

In theory there can be more than one but as you've pointed out many common files that are in the plugin will collide and only one of the them will be applied. Also using direct-deploy might overwrite files from other ext plugin.

[Fakhruddin S Mushki, módosítva 10 év-val korábban]

So is it recommended to keep only one ext plugin ?

[Jeffrey Handa, módosítva 10 év-val korábban]

Hi Fakhruddin,

Check out the Creating An Ext Plugin section in the Liferay Developer Guide.

There is a tip that suggests:

After creating an Ext plugin, remove the files you don’t need to customize from

Liferay keeps track of the files deployed by each Ext plugin and won’t let you deploy multiple Ext plugins that override the same file. If you remove unnecessary (uncustomized) files, you’ll avoid collisions with Ext plugins deployed alongside yours.

[Fakhruddin S Mushki, módosítva 10 év-val korábban]

Thanks Jeffery. That is exactly what I was searching for. Thanks once again.