Jonas X Yuan, "Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development"
Packt Publishing | 2009 | ISBN: 1847194702 | 420 pages | PDF | 7 MB

Build Java-based custom intranet systems on top of Liferay portal
Learn to use Liferay tools to create your own applications as a Java developer, with hands-on examples
Customize Liferay portal using the JSR-286 portlet, extension environment, and Struts framework
Build your own Social Office with portlets, hooks, and themes and manage your own community
The only Liferay book aimed at Java developers

In Detail

Liferay portal is one of the most mature portal frameworks in the market, offering many key business benefits that involve personalization, customization, and workflow. If you are a Java developer who wants to build custom web sites and intranet applications using Liferay portal, this is where your search ends.

This book shows how Java developers can use Liferay as a framework to develop custom intranet systems, based on Liferay portal platform thus helping you to maximize your productivity gains. Get ready for a rich, friendly, intuitive and collaborative end-user experience!

The author's experience customizing Liferay using Java enables him to explain in a clear and precise manner how to build custom systems on top of Liferay portal.

Using this book you can customize Liferay into a single point of access to all an organization's data, content, web content, and other information from both existing in-house applications (HR, CRM) and external sources (such as Alfresco, FatWire, Magnolia, Vignette).

What you will learn from this book? This book will give you plenty of hands-on examples to customize and extend Liferay portal. You will learn how to:
Work with the JSR-286 portlets and Extension environment, helping you to build larger applications and reuse portlets in different scenarios
Build basic and advanced Struts portlets with permissions and a set of actions helping you to build enterprise-ready Java web applications
Manage communities and pages with locale and tracking features to employ layout templates dynamically
Customize WYSIWYG editor FCKEditor - Making images, links, videos, games, video queues, video lists, and play lists as part of web content
Empower CMS and WCM providing you with one central place to aggregate and manage all content
Build My Community - Share web sites, pages, and portlets with friends allowing you to introduce control panel and inter-portlet communication
Develop layout templates and themes in the Plugins SDK environment so that you can customize the overall look and feel of web sites and pages
Build your Social Office with portlets, hooks, and themes enabling you to be a part of the team without sacrificing your preferences
Stage, schedule, and publish web content with workflow capability allowing you to alter and manage what you have created
Build custom attributes, OpenSearch, Spring services, and web services thus helping you to build dynamic web sites smoothly
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