How to create JSF2 Portlet in Liferay

The purpose of this post is to provide an entry level tutorial on how to create JSF2 portlet in Liferay Portal.

Required software / tools:
1. Eclipse (Juno)
2. Liferay Portal 6.1.1 with tomcat bundled
3. Liferay IDE 6.1.1
4. Liferay Plugin sdk 6.1.1

Prerequisites:
1. make sure Liferay development environment is properly setup

How to create first JSF2 application

The purpose of this post is to guide newbies to create a Hello application with JSF2.

Below are some of the required tools/software before we start the tutorial.
1. Eclipse
2. JBoss Tool 4.0
3. Tomcat 7 or JBoss 7.1
4. JSF2 api and impl library

After all the prerequisites are installed and ready, we can start creating our Hello JSF2 application.