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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 7. Collaborative and Social API

The portal is the best ECM for team collaboration, supporting industry standards such as Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI), CMIS, WebDAV, and JCR. Event data can be specific to a group within a company. In any organization, some data will be relevant at a team level and some other data will be relevant across the whole business. The portal supports such things very well. The portal's collaboration and social networking features take advantage of the benefits of today's virtualized work environment.

Social office gives us a social collaboration on top of the portal—a full virtual workspace that streamlines communication and builds up group cohesion. All components in social Office are tied together seamlessly, getting everyone on the same page by sharing the same look and feel. More importantly, dynamic activity tracking gives us a bird's eye view of who has been doing what and when within each individual site. Social equity can...