Liferay Portal 7 - Getting Started Guide Series

I had written step by step post for LiferayPortal 6.2 - Getting Started Guide - Development Setup using Eclipse Kepler in past. Today, I thought to write series of posts for getting started with recently released Liferay Portal 7 CE, which has major changes with respect to introducing modular architecture and related development strategy.

If you are new to portal, then read what is portal? If you are new to Liferay, then read what is Liferay Portal (now broadly known as Liferay Digital Experience Platform)? But most of time, we don't understand all theoretical fundamentals until we have environment to try something practically. So first attempt can be to setup latest Liferay portal to try its few out-of-box features and functionalities. Then, further attempts can be setup Liferay IDE for creating hello world project and deploying to Liferay Portal.

Following series of posts may help you to get started with Liferay Portal 7 quickly, if you already have experience with Java development using Eclipse.

1. Step by step guide to setup Liferay Portal
2. Understanding Liferay Development Tooling options
3. Basic setup of Liferay IDE
4. Using Liferay IDE for Hello World Liferay MVC Portlet development and deployment

For now, enjoy these posts. I may add few more to the above list in future!

Also Refer

• Liferay Portal 7.0 CE Release Announcement
• What's changed and what hasn't in Liferay 7

• Liferay 7 Modular Source Code

• Liferay 7 Features from Developer Perspective
• OSGi Support
• Bootstrap 3.0 Look and Feel
• Java 8 Support
• Alloy Editor
• Elastic Search
• Support Integration Testing through Arquillian
• Application Display Templates Support for Login, Language and Breadcrumb portlets.
• Improvements in Web content management
• Singe Page Application Development
• Document Management storages extracted as modules      
• Service Builder code now uses Declarative Services instead of Spring for dependency injection