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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

Records management


Records management (RM) is the practice of maintaining the records of an organization from the time they are created up to their eventual disposal, including scanning, classifying, storing, securing, capturing, and tracking records, and automatic data extraction using the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) component to convert TIFF and other unsearchable files to text. A record can be either a tangible object or digital information, for example, birth certificates, medical x-rays, office documents, databases, application data, fax, and e-mail.

The United States Department of Defense standard DoD 5015.02-STD defines records management as

The planning, controlling, directing, organizing, training, promoting, and other managerial activities involving the life cycle of information, including creation, maintenance (usage, storage, retrieval), and disposal, regardless of media.

OCR is an electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten, or printed text...