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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

Local staging and publishing


The portal provides local staging and publishing capabilities. Users can stage their work—the ability to work on a working copy of the website. For example, as a content creator, you can manipulate this working copy and preview it as if it were the website. You should be able to preview a working copy at any time without disrupting the live pages. The purpose of the staging feature is to deploy a new version of the website in a fully-functional form, which can be tested and reviewed by the content producers or the content editors. The content producers or content editors, who are evaluating the web content changes, are able to navigate to the site without having to choose which version to see.

Similarly, it would be nice if the users can publish web content smoothly—to push one or more assets from a staging to a live (or called local production) environment. Generally speaking, publishing should include the capability to publish to both the local portal instances...