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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

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank all team members at Liferay; especially Raymond Auge, Brian Chan, Jorge Ferrer, Michael Young, Bryan Cheung, Jerry Niu, Ed Shin, Craig Kaneko, Brian Kim, Bruno Farache, Thiago Moreira, Amos Fong, Scott Lee, David Truong, Alexander Chow, Mika Koivisto, Julio Camarero, Douglas Wong, Ryan Park, Eric Min, John Langkusch, Marco Abamonga, Ryan Park, Eric Min, John Langkusch, Marco Abamonga, Michael Han, Samuel Kong, Nate Cavanaugh, Arcko Duan, Richard Sezov, Joshua Asbury, Shuyang Zhou, Michael Saechang, Juan Fernández, James Falkner, Olaf Kock, Zsolt Berentey, Dennis Ju, Sergio Gonzalez, Zsolt Balogh, Jonathan Mak, Eduardo Lundgren, Iliyan Peychev, Bruno Basto, Jonathan Lee, Aaron Delani, and Angelo Jefferson of Liferay for providing all the support and valuable information. Much thanks to all my friends in the Liferay community.

I sincerely thank and appreciate Sarah Cullington and Hyacintha D'Souza, Acquisition Editor and Lead Technical Editor respectively at Packt Publishing for criticizing and fixing my writing style. Thanks to Joel Goveya, Sakina Kaydawala, Azharuddin Sheikh, Ankita Shashi, Manasi Poonthottam, and the entire team at Packt Publishing; it is really joyful to work with them.

Last but not least, I would like to thank my parents and my wife, Linda, for their love, understanding, and encouragement. My special thanks to my wonderful and understanding kid, Josua.