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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

Asset management


The portal has a set of built-in assets, called portal core assets. And the portal also provides a framework in which custom assets can be plugged through plugins easily. We have introduced a set of core assets like polls, bookmarks, message boards, announcements, shared calendar, blogs, wiki, in the previous section. In this section, we are going to introduce more portal core assets and typical custom assets.

Software Catalog

The Software Catalog portlet allows building a catalog of software products and making them available to the visitors of the site. The software catalog covers a set of features like license management, framework management, ratings, tagging, screenshots, ability to specify a direct download link or a download page, allowing users to register their products, tracking of product versions, export of liferay-plugin-repository.xml for the whole repository, integration with permission system, and so on.

As shown in the following diagram, the software catalog...