Preface

Liferay is one of the leading enterprise open source portals and has been named the leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals too. Liferay Portal is so flexible that it is in high demand when it comes to enterprise portal solutions.

To develop an intranet portal for an enterprise, Liferay is one of the best open source portal development platforms that has a large-scale graph for the developer to extend any component. Liferay also provides best-in-class support for integration with other applications.

In this book, we have explained easy steps to develop intranet and extranet portals for an organization. You may be a new, experienced, or advanced user of Liferay: this book is organized in such a way that you'll find useful information to take away and apply it in your day-to-day work to develop portals. If you are a Liferay Portal administrator, you will find this book useful to maintain the portal server and keep it running smoothly.

This book covers Liferay features in detail, including new features of Liferay, such as Liferay Sync, Liferay Marketplace, Recycle Bin, Liferay Connected Services, Audience Targeting, and so on. This will help you to integrate Liferay with other key applications, such as LDAP, SSO, and Alfresco 4.x and above. This book has numerous practical examples that will help you to develop an intranet portal on the fly. Most importantly, after going through each chapter, you will be able to understand and develop an intranet portal on your own.

Integration between different applications, such as LDAP, SSO, and Liferay Social Office, with numerous illustrations, diagrams, clear step-by-step instructions, and practical examples with screenshots are provided.

By reading this book, you will understand Liferay and its advance features. There are numerous Tips and Notes to help you understand the discussed ideas better.