Become Liferay Developer

  1. Register via Liferay Sign In to join Liferay Community
  2. Source file:
    Goto Liferay on Sourceforge and download the source file zipped package. Don't download the whole repositary via subversion, which is huge and take many hours to download.
  3. Project file:
    Download the Liferay IDE Eclipse file from Liferay on Sourceforge -> Download. I've got liferay-ide-eclipse-1.0.2.jar
    Then follow the article Liferay Eclipse IDE to setup:
    1. Setup development environment. Reference Liferay Development Wiki. For development environment setup on Ubuntu, reference Liferay Development on Ubuntu. As of today, the document still talks about version 4.2, which is kinda outdated. Jikes is not needed anymore.