Liferay
Using service Builder
January 25, 2010 | 
Author Objectives:
Creating Report Portlet
Steps:
- Create Service XML
- Build the service
Create folder com/ext/porlet/reports at ext-impl/src
Create a file named service.xml under that folder
Drag ext-impl/build.xml and do build-service-portlet-report
Result:
ext-services/src : It will now generate model, service, service.persistance AND
ext-impl/src: Implementation of service above
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Installing Liferay
You can install liferay by following instructions at my friend’s blog: http://lazy-programmer.blogspot.com/2009/06/install-latest-version-of-liferay-522.html
IMPORTANT!
if you are using 5.2.3 or later , do not execute mysql queries. Follow these steps:
1. Create table lportal at mysql or other db
2. Clear up tomcat\tomcat\webapps\. LEAVE ONLY ROOT folder.
3. Start the tomcat server
USING EXT
Create 1 file called app.server.username.properties
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