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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 2. Service-Builder and Development Environment

Before moving on to develop JSR-286 portlets, we have to set up our development environment properly. Fortunately, Liferay provides a development environment, namely, the Plugins SDK environment (Plugins SDK) for developing Ext plugin, portlets, hooks, themes, layout templates, and webs. Liferay portal also provides Service-Builder as a tool to build Java services that can be accessed in a variety of ways. This chapter will first introduce how to set up Plugins SDK and how to build it. Then, it will address how to use Service-Builder and what happens when the portal starts from scratch.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to:

  • Set up a development environment

  • Navigate through the portal and plugins structure

  • Use Service-Builder

  • Populate database schema and default data

  • Use default project creation and templates

  • Develop portlets within Tomcat in a fast way

Plugins SDK development environment

Plugins SDK is a simple environment...