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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

Class loader proxy


Class loader proxy would be useful to share plugins services among different plugins. For example, let's say you have two plugins, chat-portlet and knowledge-base-portlet. Each one has its own WAR file. One of them, let's say chat-portlet, has a service named StatusLocalService and the service layer StatusLocalServiceUtil. Moreover, the second portlet, let's say knowledge-base-portlet, needs to use the service StatusLocalServiceUtil.getStatuses in order to find out who is online or offline. The class loader proxy class can achieve these requirements easily.

Note

Note that the portal core and built-in portlets services were deployed on an application server global lib, while the plugin services were deployed on the plugin's lib by default. It is also possible that you can deploy the plugin services on an application server global lib, thus these services will be shared among other plugins, even the portal core and built-in portlets.

The class com.liferay.portal.kernel.util...