In this chapter , we are going to build dynamic, content-rich, and ad-serving Internet web sites(www.bookpubstreet.com
and www.bookpubworkshop.com
) in the intranet web site bookpub.com
for "Palm Tree Publications" on top of the Liferay portal. Each web site is made up of a set of portlets, involving content management in the backend and public sites and/or My Street in the frontend. In the previous chapter, we discussed how to use ServiceBuilder and development environments, especially Ext. Now we are going to use Ext for customization and extension on portlets.
Why Struts portlets? Liferay portal provides a set of out of the box portlets, that is, Struts portlets. Thus, we need to know more about Struts portlets in Ext before customizing and extending them. Apache Struts is an elegant, extensible framework for building enterprise-ready Java web applications using Model-View-Controller(MVC) architecture. The Model represents the business or database...