Preparing developemnt environment

Preparing Development Environment

(Based on Liferay Portal 6.2.0 & windows 8 environment )

Step1: Download necessary software

i) liferay-plugins-sdk-6.2.0-ce-ga1-20131101192857659.zip

ii) liferay-portal-tomcat-6.2.0-ce-ga1-20131101192857659.zip

iii) Eclipse Juno with Liferay IDE integrated

Liferay plugin sdk and liferay tomcat bundle can be downloaded from

And eclipse with Liferay IDE can be downloaded from

Step 2: Unzip the above i) and ii) in your preferred directory

Point eclipse workspace to this directory

Step 3: Configure Plugin SDK in your eclipse

In your eclipse navigate to Window->Preferences->Liferay->Installed Plugin SDKs and point to plugin SDK directory

Step 4: Configure Liferay tomcate bundle in your eclipse

In your eclipse navigate to Window->Preferences->Server->Runtime Environments

Step 5: Configure Database

To configure database Click here

Now you can launch your liferay from your eclipse.