Welcome to the third article in these series about Liferay usage, maintenance and development. In this post I will show you how to set up your Liferay development enviroment using Apaches Maven2 build tool. We will develop a really simple JSR-168 portlet which can be deployed into Liferay. I assume you have read my previous articles and that you are using Liferay 5.2.3 on JBoss 5.1. I hope you like this post as much as the previous ones, if you have any feedback feel free to contact me or post a response.

The next version of Liferay, release date end Q1 begin Q2, will have complete support for maven including custom archetypes. Some of the steps described in this article will be obsolete then, but lets get started. Read the rest of this entry »