Blade Tools is a set of modular developer tools for building Liferay 7.0 plugins, aka modules built with OSGi. The idea is that instead of many of the tools that would normally be developed and released only as a part of Liferay IDE can now be built in a re-usable way (i.e. modular, just like Liferay 7.0 Core itself) and can be used outside or in conjunction with Liferay IDE, making these tools available for non-Liferay IDE or non-Eclipse users.

Right now the only installable tool is the blade CLI tool that provides a few commands. It can be installed using the following:

Install JPM (Mac, Linux)

$ curl http://www.jpm4j.org/install/script | sh

OR

Install JPM (Windows)

Visit the JPM4J [Windows installation](https://www.jpm4j.org/#!/md/windows) setup guide.

Clone this repo, and then from the command line execute following command:

$ gradle build export.blade.cli

$ jpm install -fl blade.cli/generated/distributions/executable/blade.cli.jar

Now you should have the blade executable in your path. Try it by running:

blade

Once you have the blade cli installed you can see the list of commands just type

blade

Or java -jar blade.cli.jar if not using JPM.

Current available commands

The Create command allows you to create new Liferay 7 module projects based on gradle or maven build.

$ blade create helloworld 

This will create a new helloworld portlet module project that contains an OSGi component built by a gradle script. To see all the options of the create command just run $blade create -h for all options.

First, start Liferay 7 Portal, once it is running you can build your Liferay 7 module and deploy it

helloworld $ gradle build
helloworld $ blade deploy build/libs/helloworld-1.0.jar

If you have Liferay 7 running the blade tool should connect to the Liferay Module Framework and install your newly built module jar file. You can check the OSGi shell of Liferay to verify

$ telnet localhost 11311

Then issue the command lb helloworld

All source to this project is available under Apache 2.0 License