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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Kaleo Web Installation


The workflow engine called Kaleo is defined as a web plugin. Briefly, a web plugin is a normal web application, which also provides the ability to use the Liferay service layer that is built on Service Builder and other Liferay plugins, such as hooks, portlets, and so on. In general, it's a hybrid between a typical servlet application and Liferay-specific plugins.

Getting ready

To correctly install Liferay plugins, it's required to create an account on the official Liferay site. This account allows you to download plugins on the marketplace, discuss on a message board, creates blogs, and so on.

How to do it...

In the Liferay 6.1.1 GA2 version, Liferay provides a marketplace portlet to install all its available plugins. In Liferay 6.2 marketplace portlet is already installed, so the installation of the Kaleo plugin is really simple. In order to install the Kaleo workflow, go through the following set of steps:

  1. Log in as an administrator on the intranet.

  2. Navigate to Admin...