Development Setup Overview

Liferay’s development tools help you get started fast. The basic steps for installing Liferay Dev Studio DXP are

  • Download a Liferay Dev Studio DXP bundle.

  • Unzip the downloaded package to a location on your system.

  • Start Dev Studio DXP.

You’ll follow these steps and then generate an environment for developing your first Liferay DXP application.

Installing a Liferay Dev Studio DXP Bundle

Follow these steps:

  1. Download and install the Java Development Kit (JDK). Liferay DXP runs on Java. The JDK is required because you’ll be developing Liferay DXP apps in Liferay Dev Studio DXP. The JDK is an enhanced version of the Java Environment used for developing new Java technology. Use JDK 8 or JDK 11.

  2. Download and install Liferay Dev Studio DXP Installing it is easy: unzip it to a convenient location on your system.

  3. To run Liferay Dev Studio DXP, run the LiferayDeveloperStudio executable.

The first time you start Liferay Dev Studio DXP, it prompts you to select an Eclipse workspace. If you specify an empty folder, Liferay Dev Studio DXP creates a new workspace in that folder. Follow these steps to create a new workspace:

  1. When prompted, indicate your workspace’s path. Name your new workspace guestbook-workspace and click OK.

  2. When Liferay Dev Studio DXP first launches, it presents a welcome page. Click the Workbench icon to continue.

Nice job! Your development environment is installed and your workspace is set up.

Creating a Liferay Workspace

Now you’ll create another kind of workspace—a Liferay Workspace. By holding and managing your Liferay DXP projects, a Liferay Workspace provides a simplified, straightforward way to develop Liferay DXP applications. In the background, a Liferay Workspace uses Blade CLI and Gradle to manage dependencies and organize your build environment. Note that to avoid configuration issues, you can only create one Liferay Workspace for each Eclipse Workspace.

Follow these steps to create a Liferay Workspace in Liferay Dev Studio DXP:

  1. Select FileNewLiferay Workspace Project. Note: you may have to select FileNewOther, then choose Liferay Workspace Project in the Liferay category.

    Figure 1: By selecting Liferay Workspace, you begin the process of creating a new workspace for your Liferay DXP projects.

    Figure 1: By selecting *Liferay Workspace*, you begin the process of creating a new workspace for your Liferay DXP projects.

    A New Liferay Workspace dialog appears, which presents several configuration options.

  2. Give your workspace the name com-liferay-docs-guestbook.

  3. Next, choose your workspace’s location. Leave the default setting checked. This places your Liferay Workspace inside your Eclipse workspace.

  4. For Liferay Version select 7.1.

  5. Check the Download Liferay bundle checkbox to download and unzip a Liferay DXP instance in your workspace automatically. When prompted, name the server liferay-tomcat-bundle.

  6. Click Finish to create your Liferay Workspace. This may take a while because Liferay Dev Studio DXP downloads the Liferay DXP bundle in the background.

    Figure 2: Liferay Dev Studio DXP provides an easy-to-follow menu to create your Liferay Workspace.

    Figure 2: Liferay Dev Studio DXP provides an easy-to-follow menu to create your Liferay Workspace.

A dialog appears prompting you to open the Liferay Workspace perspective. Click Yes, and your perspective switches to Liferay Workspace.

Congratulations! Your development environment is ready! Next, you’ll get started developing your first Liferay DXP application.

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