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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

Portlet bridges


The Portlet Bridge is an implementation of the multiple-standard specification (for example, JSR-301) with added enhancements to support other web frameworks (such as, JSF, Struts, or Spring MVC), allowing any developer to get started quickly with their web application running in a portal environment. The good thing is that the developer no longer needs to worry about the underlying portlet development, portlet concepts, or the API.

This section is going to address a set of portlet bridges built into the portal. Spring 3 MVC, Struts 2, and JSF 2 will be addressed in the coming sections.

An overview of built-in portlet bridges

The portal supports multiple portlet bridges. The following table shows an overview of these portlet bridges:

Alloy portlet

The Alloy portlet defines an interface called AlloyController. It defines a set of methods, such as, afterProperties, execute, and setPageContext.

The Alloy portlet also specifies a friendly URL. The following table shows a summary...