Hi, first of all I'm sorry if this topic has been discussed already but I didn't find anything referring to the exact version of Liferay I need to work on.

I need/would like to write some code (portlets) for my portal, which runs on Liferay, version 5.2.3.
I can't find any useful information about some proper plugins for the IDEs (eclipse, netbeans, etc) or the Liferay 5.2.3 plugins. It's all fun and smiles when I search about version 6.0 but I can't find much for 5.2.3.

Is there any guide/manual to set up an environment (liferay + ide) from the scratch?

Sorry for my not very good engRish, I hope my issue is clear: I'm here for any further explanation you need to solve my problem.

Thank you all,

As long as you don't need any of the Liferay extensions, you can develop a portlet to the JSR specifications and it will work fine, even under 5.2.3.

We did our initial portlet development under 4, then 5.2.3, and developed a series of JSF/Spring/Hibernate portlets that did not have to leverage Liferay APIs and/or extensions, and they all work fine!

These were the days prior to the Liferay IDE and the nice 6.0 deployment stuff...

I have the same problem.
i have a project developed with liferay 5.2.3 bundled with tomcat 5.5.

i am very much new to liferay. i can't configured the project and deploy it.
please guide me so i can configured it and deploy

Hi Om,

Don't be panic !!

You will find proper guideline and response.

Please find url of Admin and Development pdf,

Admin Guide
Developer Guide

Hope this will help , Do let me know in case of more information require.

Thanks,
Sagar Vyas

Sorry, liferay.com didn't provide too much public information on Liferay 5.2.3. EE users got a book has been updated to liferay 6 and is now able online. Unfortunately, liferay 5.2.3 documentations are still not available freely. Furthermore, I think most liferay 6.x users are developing with liferay IDE. Unfortunately, current liferay IDE does not work with liferay 5.x.