Part 4 in our video screencast demonstrates customizing the Sample JSP Portlet project established previously. The tutorial also includes information on how to modify Liferay specific configuration files as well as the standard Portlet deployment descriptor. Again, instead of relying on callouts, its my voice you’ll hear during this screencast. (Apologies if its not the siren’s call you’d imagined).

The video for this tutorial can be found by clicking here or by clicking the image above .  As usual, the video will start automatically — but click on the arrow at the bottom of the video to play/pause it.

This week we continue with our look at using the Liferay Plugin SDK to develop portlets. Now, I’ll take a look at how to integrate what the Plugin SDK offers with Eclipse, perhaps the most popular development environment for Java. Instead of using callouts, this time I decided to use audio (gasp!) and gave my best effort for a clear, discernible audio presentation. Apologies if in some places it comes across a little rough.

The video for this tutorial can be found here or by clicking the image above . As usual, the video will start automatically — but click on the arrow at the bottom of the video to play/pause it.

I’ve just completed a sample portlet using the new Struts 2 framework. Struts 2 is a really elegant, comprehensive framework that is much easier to use than Struts 1.x. What’s more is that Struts 2 works hand-in-hand with Spring so there’s a lot support built-in for it.

This sample portlet demonstrates using the new Struts form mechanism and shows how dependency injection comes naturally for Struts 2 actions. Take a look at the screencast to see what this new portlet does.