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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

Plugins SDK development environment


Plugins SDK is a simple environment for plugins development such as Ext (Ext stands for extension) plugins, themes, layout templates, portlets, hooks, and webs (web applications). It is completely different from the Liferay portal core services as it uses external services portal-service only if required.

In order to set up the development environment, Plugins SDK for development, customization, deployment, and debugging, we need to consider the following aspects: required tools, databases, application servers, IDE (Integrated Development Environment), portal runtime bundle, and portal source code. We will have a deeper look at these aspects.

Of course, you can use Liferay Developer Studio, where all aspects are packaged as one simple bundle or Liferay IDE. Liferay IDE is an extension of the Eclipse platform that supports development of plugins projects such as portlets, hooks, layout templates, themes, and Ext plugins—as you can see, webs...