Better maven support in Liferay IDE 2.1.1                                                    

Quick resolution

Quick resolution has been added which is much more convenient for maven users to fix the maven project which has no properties.

 

There are two ways to fix the maven configuration problem after right click 'Failure to transfer com.liferay.maven.plugins:liferay-maven-plugin:pom${liferay.maven.plugin.version}...' > Quick Fix. Either way could fix the problem:

• Create a new maven profile based on a Liferay runtime and attach it to the project.
• Select existing maven profiles to attach the current project. ​​

1. Create a new maven profile based on a Liferay runtime and attach it to the project.

• After select this fix and click Finish button, 'Create New Maven Profile' dialog will pop up, and the profile has been generated automatically based on your runtime.
• The profile location is set to 'Project pom.xml' by default, also could change to the local settings.xml file if youu'd like to.
• Click 'OK' button to finish quick fix.

2. Select existing maven profiles to attach to the current project.

• After select this fix, 'Select Active profile' dialog will pop up, the profiles in 'Profile Id' column on the left are readed from your local settings file.
• Add one or more profiles to 'Profile Id' column on the right > OK.
• Once finished, the project would be no more errors.

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m2e-liferay added to m2e catalog

M2E provides a maven support in the Eclipse IDE, and m2e connectors are the plugins for m2e that contribute lifecycle mappings automatically. Now m2e-liferay has been added to catalog in liferay IDE so that maven users could use our m2e connectors to resolve the errors about lifecycle mappings for liferay maven plugins. 

1. Existing liferay maven project in IDE.

• Right click on the portlet project > Properties. 
• Click Maven > Lifecycle Mapping.
• Notice the configurator for liferay:build-css has been extended.

2. Import an existing maven project with liferay properties to Eclipse-jee.

• Go to File > Import > Existing Maven Projects > Next > Browse the valid liferay maven project that have liferay properties in pom file > Finish.
• It would prompt to setup maven plugin connectors for liferay automatically.
• Click 'Finish' to install it. 
• It may need some time for downloading, then 'Install' dialog would pop up with m2e-liferay checked.
• Click Next > Next > checked 'I accept the terms of the license agreements' > Finish.

3. Import an existing maven project without liferay properties to vanilla Eclipse-jee.

• Go to File > Import > Existing Maven Projects > Next > Browse the liferay maven project  > Finish.
• It would prompt to setup maven plugin connectors for liferay automatically, but it fails to resolve since no marketplace entries found to handle liferay-maven-plugin: ${liferay.maven.plugin.version}:build-css.
• Click 'Finish' to resolve later > OK for the incomplete maven goal execution.
• Go to Window > Preferences > Maven > Discovery > Open Catalog.
• Checked 'm2e connector for liferay-maven-plugin' then Finish.
• Install m2e-liferay according to the poped up 'Install' dialog then restart Eclipse.
• Once finished, the project would still have some errors due to no liferay properties, to resolve this, we can use the quick fix mentioned above. 

Remote projects

Maven projects could be deployed to remote server except for liferay service builder maven projects, which will be coming soon in the next release.