Liferay Provided BLADE CLI tool to create Liferay OSGi modules. BLADE CLI provided many commands and one of the commands is create command. Liferay 7/DXP is providing many OSGi module templates and it will create project skeleton with required configuration files.
As a Developer we simply focus on actual development instead of project configurations. BLADE is also provided way to create modules with two build types Gradle and Maven.
Prerequisite
Install BLADE CLI
BLADE CREATE
The following is BLADE create command with minimum required options.
blade create -t <project-template> -p <package> -c <component-class-name> -v <liferay-version> -b <build-tool> <project-name> |
Example Command to create Liferay MVC Portlet OSGi Module
Gradle
blade create -t mvc-portlet -p com.liferaysavvy.sample -c LiferaySamplePortlet -v 7.2 -b gradle sample-gradle-mvc-portlet |
Default build type is gradle. You can ignore -b when you are targeting build type is Gradle.
Maven
blade create -t mvc-portlet -p com.liferaysavvy.sample -c LiferaySamplePortlet -v 7.2 -b maven sample-maven-mvc-portlet |
Locate to your workspace directory and try above create commands it will create maven and gradle
Liferay MVC Portlet module.
Maven Liferay Module Project
Gradle Liferay Module Project
Project template list
Use following command to find all available project templates
blade create -l |
template list
activator api content-targeting-report content-targeting-tracking-action control-menu-entry form-field fragment freemarker-portlet layout-template modules-ext mvc-portlet npm-angular-portlet npm-react-portlet npm-vuejs-portlet panel-app portlet-configuration-icon portlet-provider portlet-toolbar-contributor rest service service-builder service-wrapper simulation-panel-entry social-bookmark spring-mvc-portlet template-context-contributor theme theme-contributor war-core-ext war-hook war-mvc-portlet |
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