Chapter 1, Liferay Enterprise Portal, addresses what Liferay can offer your intranets and Internets. Liferay delivers enterprise solutions for portals, publishing content, social and collaboration. Dynamic, content-rich, and social systems will be built fast and easily on top of Liferay portal.

Chapter 2, Service-Builder and Development Environment, discusses how to set up, build, and deploy portal core and plugins in the Eclipse IDE. Then it discusses how to use service builder to generate services and models, and how to add new features on service builder. It also addresses how to populate default data, how to use default project creation and templates, and how to set up fast development of plugins with Tomcat.

Chapter 3, Generic MVC Portlets, first introduces how to develop a portlet project with default templates. Then it addresses how to construct basic MVC portlets by viewing the title and adding an action, and how to build advanced MVC portlets. Finally, it discusses how to build and re-build services, how to bring portlets into Control Panel, how to set security and permissions, dynamic query, and custom SQL.

Chapter 4, Ext Plugin and Hooks, addresses Ext plugin and project default templates, upgrading a legacy Ext environment, deploying processes and what it does, class loader proxy and how it works, hooks and project default templates, portal properties hooks, language properties hooks and multiple languages support, custom JSP hooks, indexer post processors, service wrappers hooks, servlet filters and servlet mappings hooks, and struts actions hooks.

Chapter 5, Enterprise Content Management, introduces video, audio, and image management. It also discusses document and media library and document management, WebDAV implementation, multiple repositories integration, CMIS consumers and producers, web scanning, OCR and record management, content relationship, content authoring, and content archiving.

Chapter 6, DDL and WCM, addresses how to customize web content models and services, to build web content structure and template, to publish web content via asset publisher, to integrate CKEditor and its plugins, to use Expando custom attributes, to leverage DDL (Dynamic Data Lists) and DDM (Dynamic Data Mapping), to manage assets, asset links, tags and categories and to publish assets with asset query.

Chapter 7, Collaborative and Social API, first introduces how to use collaborative tools— wiki, blogs, calendar event, message boards, polls, bookmarks. Then it addresses how to manage more collaborative assets— both core assets and custom assets, and how to collaborate assets— both core assets and custom assets. Afterwards, it introduces how to use social networking, social coding, and social office. Finally, it addresses social activity, social equity capabilities, and OpenSocial API.

Chapter 8, Staging, Scheduling, Publishing, and Cache Clustering, introduces in depth: the Portal-Group-Page-Content (PGPC) pattern, LAR exporting and importing, local staging and publishing, remote staging and publishing, scheduling and messaging, caching and clustering.

Chapter 9, Indexing, Search, and Workflow, addresses web plugins and WAI first. Then it shows how to build web plugins using cas-web and solr-web plugins as examples, how to index and search assets— both portal core assets and plugins custom assets, how to set up solr-web plugin, and how to apply workflow on assets and employ kaleo-web plugin.

Chapter 10, Mobile Devices and Portlet Bridges, introduces layout template plugins, theme plugins, and WAP mobile themes first. The mobile devices detectors and WURFL get addressed, too. Then it addresses the portlet bridges, Struts 2 portlets, JSF 2 portlets, and Spring 3 MVC portlets.

Chapter 11, Common API, addresses user management, password policy, authentication and authorization, LDAP and SSO, tracking and auditing, rules engine and reporting engine, scripting engine, polling, web services, WSRP producers and consumers, and OSGi framework.

Chapter 11 is not present in the book. You can download it from the Packt website at https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/5986_11.pdf.

This book uses Liferay portal version 6.1 with the following settings:

Although this book explores in depth the various technologies used in Liferay portal, it explains all the topics in an easy-to-understand way. This book is for any Java developers.

If you have some basic knowledge in web applications including servlets and portlets, you will understand better the discussions in this book.

Most importantly, if you like problem-solving and have an eye for perfection, this book is written for you.

We have opened our arms to welcome you to the Liferay world.

This book is for Java developers who don't need any prior experience with Liferay portal. Although Liferay portal makes heavy use of open source frameworks, no prior experience of using these is assumed.

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