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- SourceForge holds latest development build (use subversion to retrieve), BUT
- Latest stable version should be obtained by following these directions: http://content.liferay.com/4.0.0/docs/quickstart/ch04s01.html#d0e815
- App is authored using Eclipse (although it's not mandatory and some developers use other IDEs)
- Compilation, bundling, and deployment are done using an extensive set of Ant scripts
- JIRA is at http://support.liferay.com
Key Technologies #
These technologies are used in Liferay (the more you know about these, the easier Liferay is):
- JSR 168 (Java Portlet Specification) http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr168/index.html
- J2EE (Servlets and .JSPs, optionally EJBs if transactions needed)
- Tomcat or JBoss (or numerous other application servers) http://tomcat.apache.org/
- Any SQL database (mySQL or numerous other SQL databases)
- Struts + Tiles http://struts.apache.org/
- Velocity http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
- EasyConf http://easyconf.sourceforge.net/
- Hibernate http://www.hibernate.org/
- Spring http://www.springframework.org/
Resources #
- http://www.developer.com/java/web/article.php/3366111
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSRP
- Free on-line book on portlets: http://www.manning.com/hepper/
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