Reusable Liferay (6.0.6) service - liferay-6

Question

I am trying to implement resuable Custom Services without using ext and servicebuilder.
I referred this article: http://www.devatwork.nl/2010/04/implementing-a-reusable-liferay-service-without-ext-or-service-builder/ , but I am confused in how should I implement this using eclipse? Following are the steps that I followed to do this:
- Created liferay-plugin project within eclipse.
- Created package containing CustomServices (interface) and CustomServicesUtil.
- Created jar file of package in step 2.
- Placed that jar file in tomcat\lib\ext\
- Then created package (with in same liferay-plugin project), that includes CutomServicesImpl and CustomServicesBaseImpl
- Defined portlet-spring.xml, service.properties, and modified web.xml (as per the article), and finally deployed the project.
On deployment, project is deployed successfully, but when I am trying to use customMethods defined in CustomServicesImpl through CustomServicesUtil.getCustomMethod(), I am getting the following error:
"java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.demo.custom.services.CustomServicesUtil"
I configure build path to include customservices.jar file but its not working out, still showing the same error. I don’t know whether this is the correct way to implement resuable services or not. I tried this so that i can make use of custom method in one of my project.
Here is the code for custom services:
CustomServices.java
package com.demo.custom.services;
import com.liferay.portal.model.User;
public interface CustomServices {
String getCustomName(User user);
}
CustomServicesUtil.java
package com.demo.custom.services;
import com.liferay.portal.model.User;
public class CustomServicesUtil {
private static CustomServices services;
public static CustomServices getServices() {
if (services == null) {
throw new RuntimeException("Custom Services not set");
}
return services;
}
public void setServices(CustomServices pServices) {
services = pServices;
}
public static String getCustomName(User user){
return getServices().getCustomName(user);
}
}
CustomServicesBaseImpl.java
package com.demo.custom.services.impl;
import com.demo.custom.services.CustomServices;
import com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException;
import com.liferay.portal.service.base.PrincipalBean;
import com.liferay.portal.util.PortalUtil;
public abstract class CustomServicesBaseImpl extends PrincipalBean implements CustomServices {
protected CustomServices services;
public CustomServices getServices() {
return services;
}
public void setServices(CustomServices pServices) {
this.services = pServices;
}
protected void runSQL(String sql) throws SystemException {
try {
PortalUtil.runSQL(sql);
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new SystemException(e);
}
}
}
CustomServicesImpl.java
package com.demo.custom.services.impl;
import com.liferay.portal.model.User;
public class CustomServicesImpl extends CustomServicesBaseImpl {
#Override
public String getCustomName(User user) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if(user == null){
return null;
}else{
return new StringBuffer().append(user.getFirstName()).append(" ").append(user.getLastName()).toString();
}
}
}
Here is the code of controller class of my another portlet, where i am making use of this service.
HelloCustomName.java
package com.test;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.portlet.PortletException;
import javax.portlet.RenderRequest;
import javax.portlet.RenderResponse;
import com.demo.custom.services.CustomServicesUtil;
import com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.WebKeys;
import com.liferay.portal.model.User;
import com.liferay.portal.theme.ThemeDisplay;
import com.liferay.util.bridges.mvc.MVCPortlet;
public class HelloCustomName extends MVCPortlet {
#Override
public void doView(RenderRequest renderRequest,
RenderResponse renderResponse) throws IOException, PortletException {
System.out.println("--doview----");
ThemeDisplay themeDisplay = (ThemeDisplay)renderRequest.getAttribute(WebKeys.THEME_DISPLAY);
User user = themeDisplay.getUser();
String customName = CustomServicesUtil.getCustomName(user); //getting error here
System.out.println("customName:" + customName);
}
}
Please point me on how to implement resuable services? Any guidance will be really useful.
Thanks.

Answer 1

My mind, you don't need the complexity of services. Simply make utility classes and put this in to tomcat/lib/ext. Be sure that tomcat/lib/ext is correct configured in tomcat/conf/catalina.properties, something like this:
common.loader=${catalina.home}/lib/ext/*.jar