Eric Chow:
Hi Juan,
In development stage, I have to copy the whole war into the deploy folder for deployment each time I modify the portlet.
In the old IDE, it can auto deployment in the eClipse IDE.
You shouldn't have to copy the WAR into deploy folder. When creating/importing a Liferay portlet, you should have some options under project right click --> Liferay --> SDK.
How you created/imported your projects? Probably you should open a question in IDE category forum.
Eric Chow:
I am not concerning in the osgi style portlet, but as I see that almost all the plugins in Liferay portal 7.x are now in osgi mode. I wonder if my existed portlets need to change to osgi compliance.
Eric
No, it isn't mandatory to change all previous portlet to be OSGI based, they will still work as before. All portlets will be automatically transformed internally by Liferay, so no need to transform anything by your side.
Said this, you have a proof of concept JSF-OSGI interaction portlet here:
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-faces-portal/tree/master/demo/jsf-ds-applicant-portlet and here:
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-faces-portal/blob/master/demo/primefaces-users-portlet.
You have some additional information about JSF-OSGI packaging here:
https://dev.liferay.com/develop/tutorials/-/knowledge_base/7-0/packaging-a-jsf-application.
Hope it helps...
