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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

Remote staging and publishing


The portal provides remote staging and publishing capabilities through which the users can select subsets of pages and data, and transfer them to the live site of the remote portal instance. By this feature, we can export the selected data to the group of a remote portal instance or to another group in the same portal instance. The LAR export and import features are used for remote staging and publishing. These features are implemented in the PortletDataHandler API. As mentioned earlier, the intent of this API is to import and export application content to and from the portal in a database-agnostic fashion for the portal core assets and custom assets.

The following diagram depicts an overview of remote staging and remote publishing. The staging has a set of portal core assets, custom assets, and groups of users. First, the portal will export related portal core assets and custom assets based on the current user's permission as a LAR ZIP file. Then, the portal...