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I'm starting to learn some portlet development. I'm wondering if there are any good (preferably recent since many of the guides I saw date back a few years) Hello Portlet or beginners guides. I have eclipse set up but I'm not sure what plugins/libraries/etc I need to start developing portlets for a Tomcat server.

Any help would be appreciated!

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  • why dont you use liferay portal server if you want portlets? what are you going to host portlets on - you need a portlet container in addition to tomatc – shinynewbike Jun 02 '11 at 06:06
  • I did a little more research and you're right, I'm going to need a portlet container. Can I install liferay on top of my existing tomcat? – Otra Jun 02 '11 at 13:15
  • liferay runs with an inbuilt tomcat - so you essentially get the same. just dwonload and run the latest liferay portal – shinynewbike Jun 03 '11 at 08:37
  • The thing is I'm need to install liferay on top of an existing tomcat that we configured and customized. But I found instructions to do that. Thanks! – Otra Jun 03 '11 at 12:34

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Liferay Portal (open source portal) has a set of eclipse plugins called Liferay IDE. If you set it up and also setup a Liferay Plugin SDK (zip download), then use the New Liferay Project wizard after installing the Liferay IDE plugins you will have everything you need. You can see the Liferay IDE Getting Started guide for how to deploy your first portlet to Liferay.

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