How do we setup Liferay 7 CE on Glassfish 4.1.1?
So far I've come across this guide but it's for Liferay 6.2 and assumes that you want to use the .war file instead of starting with the sources and dependencies from the additional files on the liferay downloads page.
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Actually i am not able to configure tomcat8 server in eclipse or liferay studio as liferay plugin is showing only 6.2 with tomcat7 option not 6.2 with tomcat8.
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Looking at Liferay's 6.2 Compatibility Matrix, it looks like Tomcat 8 is a supported EE configuration when patched to SP15+.
I'd imagine that using a Tomcat 8 server with Liferay would be simpler in their studio than with basic Eclipse, and could probably be accomplished by:
Setting up a manual installation on an existing Tomcat 8 server
(that you've configured) using the Liferay .war (detailed steps can
be found here)
Creating a new Liferay Workspace in Dev
Studio, but deselect the "Download Liferay bundle" checkbox when
creating the workspace, and configure the workspace’s
gradle.properties file to point to the pre-existing bundle by
setting the liferay.workspace.home.dir property.
Alternatively, you could set up Liferay's Plugins SDK to be used with your Liferay version/application server of choice.
If you already have existing projects in Eclipse, though, you could probably modify the steps in this article to use a 6.2 Liferay .war with Tomcat 8 in Eclipse.
I am creating a Java EE 6 application with the help of Netbeans 8.0 and TomEE 1.6. I have successfully added the server to netbeans and even generated some entity classes. I am currenlty trying to generate some JSF pages using the Netbeans wizard. However I get the following message
Cannot be generated for Java EE 6 sources wihtout server with complete Java EE 6 Web profile support (at least EJB Lite support).
I am using TomEE 1.6.0.2 plus
The problem is Netbeans 8 has a bug in which it fails to find the tomee-common-[version].jar in the [TomEE]/lib directory.
The solution is to simply rename the jar file to an older version.
For example, you have [TomEE]/lib/tomee-common-1.6.0.2.jar or [TomEE]/lib/tomee-common-1.7.1.jar. Rename these files to [TomEE]/lib/tomee-common-1.6.0.jar
This should sort you out :)
you can use tomcatEE 1.7.2 with a few small changes
you find here:
http://zarnisfd.blogspot.com/
I think this also applies to TomEE 1.6
According to the following sites:
http://forums.netbeans.org/ntopic48005.html
https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210835
Tomcat does not support EJB's therefor you would need to use an enterprise server that at least supports EJB Lite. One such server would be GlassFish
I am trying to create a new Portlet project (basically a portlet for Liferay) in Eclipse (Helios with Liferay SDK installed). I use JBoss AS 6.10.final and Liferay 6.05.
The problem is that everytime I try to create new portlet, it asks me for Runtime Enviroment. I want this enviroment to be JBoss AS, but Eclipse only suggests different Tomcat distributions. I dont have Tomcat bundle installed and I am not going to since it will run on JBoss AS.
Liferay is already installed on JBoss and running (when I start the JBoss AS, I can access the liferay portal page - it has all jars and wars on correct places in AS).
I havent found any tutorial how to make this work. Could someone perhaps provide some step by step guide or direct me to any existing one? Thank you!
PS: I hope that my question is not too confusing, if so, I will try to edit it and make myself clearer...
I have finally figured it out:
I changed the build.username.properties file
app.server.portal.dir=c:\\Programs\\jboss-6.1.0.Final-ESB-4.12\\server\\default\\deploy\\liferay-portal-6.0.5.war
app.server.lib.global.dir=c:\\Programs\\jboss-6.1.0.Final-ESB-4.12\\common\\lib
app.server.deploy.dir=c:\\Programs\\jboss-6.1.0.Final-ESB-4.12\\server\\default\\deploy
app.server.type=jboss
app.server.dir=c:\\Programs\\jboss-6.1.0.Final-ESB-4.12
so it points to the directory with liferay war files. Then I had to check in Eclipse that I do not want this file to be overwritten again and it works just fine. I can deploy all projects to JBoss using Liferay SDK!
Currently I have set up liferay 6.1 to weblogic server 10.3.5.
Now I can use liferay portal from weblogic server.
After that, I am trying to deploy the other sample portlet to liferay on weblogic server.
I would like to know how to deploy that sample portlet?
Another problem is that I want to develop portlet applicatin that use JSF 2.0 for view and EJB 3.0 for business layer. Can I deploy that portlet applicatin on liferay with weblogic server. Is that possible. If possible, Please guide me.
Keep in mind that Weblogic only supports hot deploy for the admin server. There are 2 import settings that liferay needs for hot deployment on weblogic. You need a setting for the weblogic dest dir and a liferay home setting that refers to the root folder of the Weblogic domain. The env.DOMAIN_HOME doesn't work in WLS 10.3.6, that's why you need to set the home location with the full path.
Normally Liferay has a "deploy" folder that it monitors for .war files. You just copy your portlet .war file to that folder, and Liferay deploys it. You can change location of that folder by configuring "auto.deploy.dest.dir" setting in portal-ext.properties.
According to documentation, on WebLogic by default it has this value:
auto.deploy.weblogic.dest.dir=${env.DOMAIN_HOME}/autodeploy
Also another part of documentation mentions that on some containers portlets hot deployment may not work or be problematic. But I think this is not about WebLogic.
I am looking for a bit of Liferay/Glassfish assistance here.
I am currently using a Liferay 6.0.6 portal running on Glassfish 3.0.1 and developing in Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo). I have downloaded the Liferay IDE for Eclipse as well.
The trouble I am having is in actually developing in Eclipse against a Glassfish server. I cannot create an actual Liferay project in Eclipse because the wizard requires me to specify a Liferay-Tomcat runtime environment.
Now I realize that this is the only server that is supported for the Liferay IDE as it is clearly documented in multiple places on the Liferay website and various forums around the web. However, I seem to recall one site (which, of course, I didn't bookmark :/ ) that gave instructions on a workaround for using Glassfish within the Liferay IDE. I believe it had something to do with creating the initial project as a Tomcat project, then going behind the scenes and changing some configuration files' Tomcat references to point to my Glassfish server.
I have set up my Liferay SDK environment correctly, including the build.username.properties file. I have this file pointing to my Glassfish server.
#
# Specify the paths to an unzipped Glassfish bundle.
#
project.dir=C:\\DEV\\myworkspace
app.server.type=glassfish
app.server.dir=${project.dir}\\..\\bundles\\liferay-portal-6.0.6\\glassfish-3.0.1
app.server.deploy.dir=${app.server.dir}\\autodeploy
app.server.lib.global.dir=${app.server.dir}\\domains\\domain1\\lib
app.server.portal.dir=${app.server.dir}\\domains\\domain1\\applications\\liferay-portal
However, everytime I try to do a deploy through Eclipse...
...this build.username.properties file gets overwritten with Tomcat settings from the runtime environment.
app.server.type = tomcat
app.server.dir = C:\\DEV\\bundles\\liferay-tomcat-6.0.6\\tomcat-6.0.29
app.server.deploy.dir = C:\\DEV\\bundles\\liferay-tomcat-6.0.6\\tomcat-6.0.29\\webapps
app.server.lib.global.dir = C:\\DEV\\bundles\\liferay-tomcat-6.0.6\\tomcat-6.0.29\\lib\\ext
app.server.portal.dir = C:\\DEV\\bundles\\liferay-tomcat-6.0.6\\tomcat-6.0.29\\webapps\\ROOT
Is there somewhere else that I need to make a change in order to get Eclipse to recognize my Glassfish server?
Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.
It is not currently possible to use a Liferay+Glassfish bundle directly as a runtime or server adapter in Eclipse with the Liferay IDE plugins. As you pointed out the only runtime and server adapters for Liferay IDE are the tomcat bundles. However, you can still use Liferay IDE to develop with Glassfish by using the following receipe with version 6.0.6 and current version of Liferay IDE.
Download Liferay+tomcat bundle
Configure it as a Liferay runtime
Create the project pointing to Liferay runtime
Go to Window > Preferences > Liferay > Installed SDKs, switch "update build.properties" option to Never
Launch Glashfish externally using startup script
Modify the build.properties in your SDK to point to Glasshfish as runtime
For deployment use the SDK deploy action just as you showed and it should be deployed to glassfish.
This should work for now. In the future, we will be adding support for Glassfish server to our Server Manager plugin that can be using with Liferay IDE and Liferay 6.1 for remote deployment and development, so it will work just like a local tomcat instance except it will be remote Liferay running on glassfish or jboss, or whatever you like. But right now the Server manager plugin in 6.1 beta4 only supports Tomcat6/7 and Jboss7. We hope to add Glassfish very soon.