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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

Image management


Document imaging is a process to capture, store, scale, and reprint images. The Document and Media Library provides a centralized repository to store images used throughout the portal, and it assigns a unique URL to each image. Image is one of the default document types (Basic Document, Image, and Video) in the Document and Media Library (DL). This section will show the kernel of image management.

Models and services

The following diagram depicts an overview of image management conceptually. An image (special document) called DL Image has a set of folders (called DLFolder) associated with them. Each folder may have many sub folders associated with them. Thus the folders and their sub folders form a hierarchy structure. Each folder (or sub folder) may have a set of file entries called DLFileEntry. Each DL Image has a unique URL that is to be referred to. More interestingly, each DL Image can have a thumbnail and, optionally, two custom thumbnails. In a real world scenario...