Diffrence between Liferay Portal v6.2 and Liferay Portal v6.1

 Liferay Portal v6.2 and  Liferay Portal v6.1

Ans-In the Liferay 6.2 CE Version you will see all the things are very much organized or Categorize form then the previous version. 

 

·                     1>Look & Feel :- When I downloaded the latest tomcat bundle of liferay 6.2 CE, the first thing I noticed is there is a change in the Default Liferay theme. Liferay is now upgraded to Alloy 2.0.

2>Dockbar :- The Second thing

In Liferay 6.2 they have made it more Categorize form. They have Categorize Admin(Control Panel)and MySites which all comes together in GOTO Section in liferay 6.1 version.

 

3>Control Panel :- There was a Major Change in the Control Panel Section. It was divided into Four Sections

Users - It contains User, UserGroup, Password Policies, Roles, Organization etc in this section.

Sites - It contains Sites,Sites Template,Page Template,Blogs,Wiki, Document and Media etc in this section.

Apps - It contains Market Place,Plugins Configuration, Plugins Installation etc in this section.

Configuration - It contains Portal Settings,Custom Fields,Server Administration and Portal Instances in this section.   

4>Sites

There are couple of changes and also new portlets are added at site level.

Recycle Bin :- The name itself speaks a lot. You all knows what the Recycle Bin do in Windows or Trash in Mac. The same feature liferay has implemented here.

5>New Template Script Editor with Auto complete :- Good to have this. It was hectic to write scripts in previous versions. It will make life easier.

Q2-How to install liferay with eclipse?

Ans-

1.      Install JDK and setting required environment variables (JAVA_HOME, path)

2.      Download MySQL server and Start MySQL server

3.      Download and unzip the Tomcat Bundle Liferay Portal :

4.      Install the Liferay IDE extension in Eclipse
> Help > Install New Software > Add
Name: Liferay IDE Stable
URL: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/latest/stable/

5.      Add in Eclipse the Liferay Plugin SDK instance previously installed:
> Windows > Preferences > Liferay > Installed Plugins SDKs > Add >

6.      Add in Eclipse a Tomcat Runntime Environment based on the Liferay Portal previously installed:
> Windows > Preferences > Server > Runtime Environment > Add > Liferay,Inc > Liferay v6.2 CE (Tomcat 7)

7.      Configure database setting in portal-ext.properties file and place properties file in Liferay Home(bundles) directory.

8.      Configure Liferay Tomcat sever information in Plugins SDK properties file.

9.      Start Eclipse and configure liferay prospective

10. Configure Plugins SDK in Eclipse

11. Configure Liferay Tomcat Server in Eclipse

12. Start Tomcat from Eclipse and access liferay portal

13. Complete required basic configurations for liferay portal (This is only for first time)

14. Start Liferay Application Development

Q-How to connect mysql with liferay eclipse?

Ans-Follow the below steps->

1.    Create a new liferay server (Point it to the liferay portal).

2.    Start the server.

3.    When the server will start hit the localhost:8080.

4.    A page will be displayed for the database configuration and user configuration.

5.    provide the db name and usename and password.

6.    Once you provide that, liferay will use that database.(Obviously that DB should be in your database)

Else you can create a portal-setup-wizard.properties file in \liferay-portal-6.2.0-ce-ga1 directory. Then add the following entries.

admin.email.from.name=Test Test

jdbc.default.password=root

liferay.home=D:/5555555/liferay-portal-6.2.0-ce-ga1

admin.email.from.address=test@liferay.com

jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

jdbc.default.username=root

jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/project_monitor_liferay?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false

setup.wizard.enabled=false

Q diffrence between hot deployment and deployment?
ans-hot deployment means direct deployment
ex- Hook
deployment means restart the server
ex- EXT