You can call XMLPortletFactory.jar from the command line with the following arguments. This can be helpful, if you want to start XMLPF from a skript and can't use the desktop mode.

• Argument 1: the XMLPF xml definition file
• Argument 2: The portlets plugin directory
• Argument 3: The Liferay SDK version. Possible values right now: 6.0.x | 6.1.x | 6.2.x

Example:

change to XMLPortletFactory Directory (within plugin directory)

"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_45\bin"\java.exe -jar XMLPortletFactory.jar C:\somewhere\xmlpfDefinition.xml C:\IDE\liferay-plugins-sdk-6.1.1\portlets 6.1.x

Note that XMLPortletFactory.jar must be called within the XMLPortletFactory directory, otherwise XMLPortletFactory.jar will not found dependend files.