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Liferay Portal Systems Development

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Liferay Portal Systems Development

Overview of this book

Liferay portal is one of the most mature portal frameworks in the market, offering many key business benefits that involve personalization, customization, content management systems, web content management, collaboration, social networking and workflow. If you are a Java developer who wants to build custom web sites and WAP sites using Liferay portal, this book is all you need. Liferay Portal Systems Development shows Java developers how to use Liferay kernel 6.1 and above as a framework to develop custom web and WAP systems which will help you to maximize your productivity gains. Get ready for a rich, friendly, intuitive, and collaborative end-user experience! The clear, practical examples in the sample application that runs throughout this book will enable professional Java developers to build custom web sites, portals, and mobile applications using Liferay portal as a framework. You will learn how to make all of your organization's data and web content easily accessible by customizing Liferay into a single point of access. The book will also show you how to improve your inter-company communication by enhancing your web and WAP sites to easily share content with colleagues.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Liferay Portal Systems Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Basic MVC portlet


First of all, let's use the knowledge base admin portlet as an example that requires portlet development in the Plugins SDK. This section will use the knowledge base project, as mentioned in the previous section.

Project structure

As mentioned earlier, we will first create the folder, either by executing the Ant target or by manually using knowledge-base-portlet under the folder $PLUGINS-SDK-HOME/portlets. Under the folder, you will see the docroot folder and the build.xml file. For fast development, you can add the XML file knowledge-base-portlet.xml with the following lines.

<Context path="knowledge-base" docBase="$PLUGINS_SDK_HOME/portlets/knowledge-base-portlet/docroot"
/>

Under the folder docroot, you will see the subfolders css, js, and WEB-INF. In addition to the default folders and files generated by the default template, we're going to create a folder named icons and a file under the folder icons named kb-admin.png for the knowledge base admin portlet icon...