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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

Dynamic data lists and dynamic data mapping


The portal provides capabilities to build Dynamic Data Lists (DDL) and Dynamic Data Mapping (DDM). Through DDL and DDM, users can define web form, document types, metadata set, and columns of various input styles, such as, free form, drop-down list, combo-box, date, number, text, and predefined list values (such as list of users, list of order types, and list of inventory types). Some columns can be drop-downs with predefined values that only allow you to choose one of the options defined. Other columns can be drop-downs with predefined values that are a collection of all previously entered values in that column and that allow you to enter a new value. The other columns may allow selecting more than one value. The DDL and DDM can be tied to a service to retrieve values.

Models and services

The following figure depicts DDL models, DDM models, and their relationships. The entity DDLRecordSet is associated with the entity DDMStructure. It may contain...