Deploying Modules with Liferay Developer Studio

Deploying modules in Liferay Developer Studio is a cinch. Before deploying your module, make sure you have a Liferay server configured in Developer Studio. To see how to do this, see the Installing a Server in Liferay Developer Studio

There are two ways to deploy a module to your Liferay server. You should start your Liferay server before attempting to deploy to it.

1. Select the module from the Package Explorer window and drag it to your Liferay server in the Servers window.

   

   Figure 1: You can use the drag-and-drop method to deploy your module to Liferay DXP.

2. Right-click the server from the Servers window and select Add and Remove…. Add the module(s) you’d like to deploy from the Available window to the Configured window. Then click Finish.

   

   Figure 2: Using the this deployment method is convenient when deploying multiple module projects.

Note: For a legacy Maven application, you were able to deploy it by right-clicking it in the Package Explorer and selecting Liferay → Maven → liferay:deploy. This is no longer possible because Liferay’s Maven archetypes no longer rely on the legacy liferay-maven-plugin. To deploy Maven projects in Developer Studio, make sure to follow the methods described above.

That’s it! Once your module is deployed to the Liferay server, you can verify its installation in Developer Studio’s Console window.