Convert Portlet to Liferay MVC portlet

[Hector Casalprim]

Hi Andrea,

I would like to convert the current project to an ordinary Liferay MVC project in order to be able to use some of Liferay's MVC portlet extended functionalities (changing main portlet's class from spring DispatcherPortlet to liferay MVCPortlet). Do you know if this could be easily accomplished? (any help will be welcome... and I don't use maven in my eclipse installation).

Best Regards,

Hector

[Andrea Caltroni]

Hi Hector! My objective was to write a general purpose portlet for Liferay that could be ported to other portlet containers. That's why I decided to use as less Liferay-specific features as possible.
Of course this means it can be made more Liferay specific too.
I can't help you here though because first I currently don't have the time and second I'm not working with Liferay anymore.
This doesn't mean things cannot change in the future.
On the other side, I don't think it should be a lot of work. If you read the documentation you should be able to make the necessary modifications.

Sorry that I can't help you!
Andrea

[Hector Casalprim]

Hi Andrea,

Thanks for the feedback. I was looking for a portlet I could use as a starting point, and I haven't decided yet which one I'll start from. Anyway, if I manage to make it work I'll come back to you and let you know.

Thanks,

Hector

[Andrea Caltroni]

All right! The installation is pretty raw but if you have problems with the documentation, please let me know.