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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

Fast development


What is fast development of plugins? Fast development allows developers to work with exploded plugin WARs instead of having to package them for deployment. For example, if you change JSP files in a plugin, these JSP files will be modified when you refresh the page in your browser. Furthermore, if you update other files (for example, JSF pages, Java beans, servlets, and so on) besides JSP files, these files will automatically be reloaded by the class loader of Tomcat. Obviously, this will save a lot of development time.

How do we make it happen? Firstly, you need to add a new Ant target deploy-exploded inside the file $PLUGINS_SDK_HOME/build-common-plugin.xml as follows:

// after <target name="deploy" depends="war">
// <copy file="${plugin.file}" todir="${auto.deploy.dir}" />
// </target>, add following lines:
<antelope:stringutil string="${basedir}/${plugin.name}.xml"
property="plugin.context.file">
<antelope:replace regex="\\" replacement="/" ...