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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

Theme plugins


We have discussed the layout template plugins in the previous section. This section is going to address theme plugins.

Theme default template

Liferay Plugins SDK provides theme project's default template. This default template has the following structure. The theme project folder name is represented as @theme.name@-theme. For example, @theme.name@ has value so for social office theme. Under the folder @theme.name@-theme, there is a folder named docroot and an XML file called build.xml. As you can see, build.xml contains the following code:

<project name="@theme.name@-theme" basedir="." default="deploy">
<import file="../build-common-theme.xml" />
<property name="theme.parent" value="_styled" />
</project>

This means that when your newly created theme is built, it will copy all the files from the _styled folder in the ${PORTAL_SRC_HOME}/html/themes/ directory, to the docroot folder of your theme. The default _styled folder doesn't have enough files to...