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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

Chapter 10. Mobile Devices and Portlet Bridges

Websites or WAP sites are made up of many pages. Each page consists of a set of portlets with a specific look-and-feel, specified by themes. Moreover, all of the portlets in a page are arranged using layout templates. The websites could be viewed in Web or WAP browsers (mobile devices, such as Smartphones and tablets). The mobile device detectors provide mobile device support and detection within portal infrastructure.

Generally speaking, a theme is a user interface design that makes the portal more user-friendly and visually pleasing. The portal provides layout templates in order to describe how various columns and rows are arranged to display portlets. It also provides themes that can be used to customize the overall look-and-feel of websites, WAP sites, and pages. Basically, themes control the whole look-and-feel of the pages generated in the portal, using CSS, images, JavaScript, HTML tags, Velocity, and/or FreeMarker templates.

In addition...