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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

Deploy processes


In general, there are at least three deploying approaches: sandbox deploy, auto deploy, and hot deploy. The real deploy process could start from sandbox deploy or auto deploy first, then goes to the hot deploy. It could also start from hot deploy directly, like using the portlet Plugins Installation in the Control Panel.

In particular, there are two methods for deploying and redeploying Ext plugins in production: redeploying plugin WAR file and generating an aggregated WAR file.

The method redeploying plugin WAR file can be used in any application server that supports auto deploy such as Tomcat, JBoss, and so on. The only artifact that needs to be transferred to the production system is the .war file, produced using the Ant target deploy. To do so, you need to copy the Ext plugin .war into the auto deploy directory. Once the Ext plugin is detected and deployed, restart the portal server.

The method of generating an aggregated WAR file can be used for application servers...