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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

Plugin portlet project


Liferay plugins SDK provides a set of default templates such as EAR, Ext, hook, layout template, portlet, theme, and so on. Using these templates, you can build your own plugin projects easily. This section is going to introduce the portlet project's default template.

Naming conventions and filter mappings

Liferay has standardized file naming conventions and filter mappings for plugins. The following are the standardized rules for naming conventions and filter mappings:

  • All stylesheet assets are placed in a css subfolder, including stylesheets written in JSP. The main stylesheet asset is named main.css. When any stylesheet is written with the jsp functionality, a css_init.jsp is included in the docroot directory. If no stylesheets require the jsp functionality, then css_init.jsp is not included.

  • Portlets are wrapped with a CSS class that will be injected into the DIV that wraps the viewable content. This class name will be based on the name of the plugin package. For...