Hi,

I had downloaded Tomcat 5.5 bundled with Liferay 5.1.2 an trying to develop portlet using ext environment. But after sometime i found out we can create a portlet using SDK and i don't know how to do use it. Which one is good for beginner?

I want to create a good website using Liferay Portal like<http://www.pantechusa.com/web/guest/ourpeople>.

Please prefer which is good to learn liferay for beginner?

Thx in advance.

Murugesan.

Hi,

as the EXT is going to be replaced by the SDK (hook plugin) I suggest that you use the SDK for development.

kind regards
Tobias

Hello,

If you want to learn portlet development in general and if you don't wan't to change or extend liferays portlets at all, then you shouldn't use either one of them.

Then, it would be best to create your portlets as a separate web application. You will be still able to access all liferay specific stuff through service classes inside the portal-service.jar.

Best regards

Tobias

Hi,

with the SDK you can create standalone portlets only. You cannot add portlets to Liferay-application with the SDK.

The SDK has the advantage that all Liferay-deployment descriptors are added to your portlets automatically. Of course there are also other environments that do that for you.
You can have a look at Eclipse/Lomboz. It's an IDE with built-in Liferay support.

kind regards
Tobias

Sorry, my fault. I 've never worked with the Plugin SDK before. I have just taken a look at the plugin sdk.
It will generate the portlets project structure and configures some ant task for compilation / deploy / war packing.

So, it might be quite helpfull to shorten the time needed to create the development environment.