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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

Struts 2 portlet


Apache Struts is a web application framework for developing Java EE web applications, and using and extending the Java Servlet API to encourage developers to adopt an MVC architecture. Apache Struts 2 is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications, designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building to deploying, to maintaining applications over time. Refer to http://struts.apache.org/.

Strut 2 especially leverages Object-Graph Navigation Language (OGNL). OGNL is an Expression Language (EL) for Java, allowing getting and setting properties through defined setProperty and getProperty methods, found in JavaBeans, and execution of methods of Java classes. Refer to http://incubator.apache.org/ognl/.

Struts 2 portlet-bridge

Struts 2 provides a JSR-168 portlet framework, using org.apache.struts2.portlet.dispatcher.Jsr168Dispatcher as the portlet class in the portlet.xml file. The Struts 2 JSR-286 portlet framework is...