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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

Assets collaboration


We have discussed collaboration capabilities with the portal core assets and custom assets to enable productive discussion around all your collective knowledge. This section will address assets collaboration.

In the previous chapter, we had introduced custom attributes, DDL and DDM to add custom document types and custom fields easily into any entities. It has also applied asset views, tags, and categories on any entities. Thus, most viewed and most related content could be identified in nature in the portal framework. In this section, we're going to introduce more asset collaborative capabilities, like rating, comment, flagging, subscribing, and so on. The following diagram depicts an overview on the viewpoint of modeling:

For example, the entities RatingsEntry and RattingsStats present asset ratings; the entity Subscription presents subscription capability. Other entities like Ticket, Website, Phone, Address, and EmailAddress can be applied on as many assets as you...