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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

Indexing and search


Search engine indexing collects, parses, and stores the data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. A search index could be considered as a searchable database of words that points to the documents containing that word. The popular engines focus on the full-text indexing of online, documents. Media types, such as, video, audio, and graphics are also searchable. The portal-integrated search engine Lucene, which indexes full-text of online, documents, records, and media types, such as, video, audio, and graphics. And the portal is framework-ready to integrate other search engines, such as, Apache Solr, FAST, GSA, Coveo, and so on.

Overview

As shown in the following diagram, the portal supports the following:

  • Autogeneration of database tables and indexes

  • Hibernate first-level cache and second-level cache settings

  • Ehcache settings

  • Portal cache and portal indexer

The service builder generates the database to create tables and indexes using SQL. A database...