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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

Asset, tagging, and categorization


An asset can be defined formally as a resource, controlled by the entity as a result of past events, and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the entity. The portal uses assets to present any kind of entities, either core entities, such as, DLFileEntry, JournalArticle, BookmarkEntry, MBMessage, BlogsEntry, and so on, or custom entities, such as, KBArticle, MicroblogsEntry, PMUserThread, and so on.

Folksonomies are a user-driven approach to organizing content through tags, co-operative classification, and communication through shared metadata. The portal implements folksonomies through tags. A tag may be associated with content. With tags, you can tag almost anything: bookmarks entries, blog entries, wiki articles, Document Library documents and images, journal articles, message board threads, custom entities such as Knowledge Base articles, and so on.

Taxonomies are a hierarchical structure used in scientific classification schemes...