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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

WYSIWYG editor


The WYSIWYG editor will be helpful in building content on top of the portal, for example, blog entries, forum topics, articles, journal articles, and so on. The portal is integrated with the WYSIWYG editors. Thus, content creation and publishing in the portal is simple and straightforward.

The WYSIWYG editor of the portal is highly configurable. In general, you can configure individual JSP pages to use a specific implementation of the available WYSIWYG editors: liferay, CKEditor, FCKeditor, simple, tinymce, or tinymcesimple. Moreover, you can include the WYSIWYG editor in the edit page of blog entries, web content, wiki pages, mail configuration, and custom assets such as Knowledge Base articles.

The following table shows WYSIWYG editor system files, runtime files and folders, and integration connections. You will be able to find the system files in the folder $PORTAL_SRC_HOME/portal-web/third-party and the runtime files in the folder $PORTAL_SRC_HOME/portal-web/docroot...