Sun Netbeans supports Groovy Portlets in Liferay Portal
Sun Netbeans is the first IDE to support the development of Groovy portlets for the Liferay portal server reports employee Satya Ranjan in his blog. And the best news of all: this is all open-source and free to use for you.
Since Sun decided to merge the best features of their own portal project 'Open Portal' with the leading open-source portal from Liferay into the 'WebSynergy' portal server, there are many signs of fruitful cooperation. Liferay portal supports Suns glassfish application server version 2 and 3 out of the box. Sun helped Liferay to comply to the new JSR 286 standard. And now Suns Netbeans IDE supports not only the developing of portlets in Java, but also in the non-java languages Ruby, PHP and Groovy. With the new eventing mechanism of JSR 286 they are capable of inter-portlet-communication. Therefore a Groovy portlet is no island solution but is able to communicate and interact with other portlets, may they be java-based or not. This is really great news.
For this to work you'll need the most recent Portal Pack 3.0 Milestone 1 for an up to date Netbeans install and the most recent version of Liferay Portal version 5.1/51.1. The next version of the Portal Pack will support Liferay on Tomcat 6.x amongst other nice features.
Frerk,
M2 is available try it out.
Manish
Posted by Manish on November 13, 2008 at 09:53 PM CET #