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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 3. Generic MVC Portlets

We discussed the Service-Builder and the development environment in the previous chapter. It is time to develop JSR-286 portlets for the intranet or Internet website, or WAP site. First of all, let's have a closer look at generic portlets with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. The Model represents the business or database code, the View represents the page design code, and the Controller represents the navigational code. Normally, JSP files are used to build the view for portlets.

This chapter first introduces how to develop a portlet project with the default templates, focusing on the view part and the portlet structure. It then addresses how to construct basic MVC portlets by viewing the title and adding an action, as well as how to build advanced MVC portlets. Finally, it discusses how to build and re-build services, to bring portlets into the Control Panel, to set security and permissions, use dynamic queries, to use custom queries, and...