Dev Studio provides a Module Project Wizard for users to create a variety of different module projects. You can create a new Liferay module project by navigating to File → New → Liferay Module Project.
Figure 1: When selecting *New* → *Liferay Module Project*, a Module Project Wizard appears.
You’re given options for project name, location, build type, and template type. You can build your project using Gradle or Maven. If you’re unsure for which template type to choose, see the Project Templates reference section. Click Next and you’re given additional configuration options based on the project template you selected. For example, if you selected a template that requires a component class, you must configure it in the wizard.
Figure 2: Specify your component class's details in the Portlet Component Class Wizard.
You can specify your component class’s name, package name, and its properties.
The properties you assign are the ones found in the @Component annotation’s
property = {...} assignment. See more about creating a component class in
Liferay Dev Studio in the Creating Component Classes
section.
Once you’ve configured your module, click Finish to create your project.
Now that you’ve created your module project, you can configure your project’s
presentation in the Dev Studio’s Project Explorer. To change the project’s
presentation, select the default Hierarchical or Flat views. To do this,
navigate to the Project Explorer’s View Menu
(), select Projects
Presentation and then select the presentation mode you’d like to display. The
Hierarchical view displays subfolders and subprojects under the project, whereas
the Flat view displays the modules separately from their project.
Figure 3: The Hierarchical project presentation mode is set, by default.
You now have the knowledge to create a Liferay module project from Liferay Dev Studio.
Creating Component Classes
You can also create a new component class for a pre-existing module project.
Navigate to File → New → Liferay Component Class. This is a
similar wizard to the previous component class wizard, except you can select a
component class template. There are many templates in the Component Class Template list:
- Auth Failures: processes a verify login failure
- Auth Max Failure: processes maximum number of login failures
- Authenticator: authenticates processing
- Friendly URL Mapper: processes Friendly URLs
- GOGO Command: creates a custom Gogo command
- Indexer Post Processor: creates a new Indexer Post Processor
- Login Pre Action: creates a login pre action
- MVC Portlet: creates a new MVC portlet
- Model Listener: sets a model listener
- Poller Processor: creates a new poller processor
- Portlet: creates a new portlet class file
- Portlet Action Command: creates a new portlet action command
- Portlet Filter: creates a new portlet filter
- Rest: calls and wraps inner service in the way of Rest
- Service Wrapper: creates a new service wrapper
- Struts in Action: creates a new struts action
- Struts Portlet Action: creates a new struts portlet action
Next you’ll learn how to import existing projects into Dev Studio.
Importing Existing Module Projects
Dev Studio also provides a method to import existing module projects. You can import a module project by navigating to File → Import → Liferay → Liferay Module Project(s). Then point to the project location and click Finish.
Figure 4: Select the *Liferay Module Project(s)* to import a module project.
You’re now equipped to import module projects into Liferay Dev Studio. Now go out there and get stuff done!