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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 9. Indexing, Search, and Workflow

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume of traffic to websites from search engines via natural search results. The portal is used to build public websites. It provides a wide range of features to help make SEO-friendly websites showing up at top of search results.

The portal provides indexing-search capabilities to search for web content in any websites, both organization's and site's. The portlets, such as, Search, OpenSearch, and Web Content Search, by default, are powered by the Apache Lucene search engine. As an alternative to Lucene, the portal supports pluggable search engines.

The portal framework is widely open to integrating third-party workflow engines. And the portal itself provides a workflow engine called the Kaleo workflow, allowing the users to define any number of simple to complex business processes, to deploy them, and to manage them through the portal interface. These business processes have...