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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

Scheduling and messaging


Scheduling refers to the way processes are assigned to run on the available CPUs. The portal uses the Quartz scheduler as the scheduling service, where you would see a set of tables in the database, such as QUARTZ_JOB_DETAILS, QUARTZ_JOB_LISTENERS, QUARTZ_TRIGGERS, and so on. Definitely, you can refer the entire quartz tables in the the SQL file $PORTAL_SRC_HOME/sql/quartz-tables.sql.

Quartz is a full-featured, open source job-scheduling service that can be integrated with the smallest standalone application to the largest e-commerce system. The Quartz scheduler includes many enterprise-class features, such as JTA transactions, clustering, and so on. Refer to http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/ for more details.

The portal uses JMSJava Message Service API a Java Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) API for sending messages between two or more clients. In general, the JMS API supports two models: point-to-point and publish and subscribe. In the point-to-point...