What is Liferay IDE?
Liferay IDE is the official set of Eclipse plug-ins supporting development for the Liferay Portal application platform.
It is available as a set of Eclipse plug-ins installable from an update-site. The latest version supports developing all kinds of Liferay Workspace, Module and Fragment Projects for Liferay Portal 7.0 and Liferay DXP. Liferay IDE integrates Eclipse Java EE developer package using Oxygen versions.