Radio Liferay Episode 51: Ray Auge - Modularization I - Motivation

   Another Devcon "private" session - I missed his presentations, but got the summary right when he was done: Ray Augé took the time to answer all sorts of questions about the Modularization in Liferay 7. In fact, he answered so many questions that we made it a 2-episode recording. This week it's about the motivation for modularization: What problem does it solve? Next week will be more technical, telling you about the implications of the updated architecture to your code.

As we recorded this on site at Devcon, you'll hear more background noise than usual - As usual, Auphonic did their best to clean the recording, and they did a great job.

Here are some of the topics that we talked about:

  • OSGi in Liferay 6.2 vs Liferay 7.0
  • Modularization of Liferay 7.0
  • Surprisingly (not!), modularization is not yet fully done, but it came a lot further than expected initially
  • How much do you have to re-learn to build plugins for Liferay 7
  • James: Community Roadmap Talk from Devcon (note: Ray also had several presentations at Devcon, you'll find his recordings there as well)
  • Now everybody should be able to work the same way: Internally in Liferay's core as well as externally, in the plugins.
  • Ant vs Maven vs others? What's the story with Liferay's supported Build environments? More energy will go into build tools other than the SDK
  • Of course we cover a release date :) I'm getting a very rough one from Ray :)

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