The Plugins SDK

Java developers have a wide variety of tools and development environments. Liferay makes every effort to remain tool agnostic, so that you can choose the tools that works best for you. For that reason we provide a Plugins Software Development Kit (SDK) which is based on Apache Ant and may be used along with any editor or Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The chapters of this guide will use the Plugins SDK and a text editor, but you may use whatever tool you are comfortable with. In a later chapter we also introduce Liferay IDE, a plugin for eclipse that simplifies development for Liferay.

Tip: If you are an Eclipse user and prefer to start working with it from be very beginning, you can read that chapter first before reading the rest of the guide..