Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets

Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets Jonas X. Yuan   A practical guide to building a complete corporate intranet with Liferay   Install, set up, and use a corporate intranet with Liferay—a complete guide Discussions, document management, collaboration, blogs, and more Clear, step-by-step instructions, practical examples, and straightforward explanation In More Detail   Available Now Cover price   $59.99 Packt Special Offer   $53.99 save 10% Multi-buy Discount   $49.19 save 18% order two or more items Change Currency   UK £ US $ EU € what is this? Free shipping! US, UK, Europe & selected Asian countries Where else can I buy this book? Also available from: select a store

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Language English
Paperback 408 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date April 2008
ISBN 1847192726
ISBN 13 978-1-847192-72-1
Author(s) Jonas X. Yuan
Topics and Technologies Content Management, Open Source, Java

Learn, with the help of practical examples, how to implement a complete corporate intranet using the features of Liferay.

Liferay Portal is the world's leading open-source portal platform built on Java and Web 2.0 technologies. Corporations use it to provide a unified web interface to data and tools scattered across many sources.
Liferay Portal uses the latest in Java, J2EE, and Web 2.0 technologies to deliver solutions for enterprises across both public and private sectors. Liferay Portal's flexibility allows it to be deployed in a number of different scenarios to meet key business needs. Some of the key business benefits are:

• A rich, friendly, intuitive, and collaborative end-user experience
• A single point of access to all information
• High adaptability to the demands of fast changing markets
• Highest value
• Lowest costs

This book is a complete guide to building an intranet with Liferay (version 4.4)—assess your needs, install the software, start using it, deploy portlets, customize it per your requirements, and train users. The book focuses on leveraging the Liferay framework by configuring the XML files, without changing the underlying Java code. Each chapter gives practical guidance on how to install, use, and customize Liferay. There are many step-by-step examples for better understanding.

Read the full Table of Contents for Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets

• Installing and configuring Liferay Portal
• Setting up the navigation structure for the intranet
• Managing users, groups, and roles
• Enabling staff to communicate using discussion forums
• Marking content for easy retrieval using tags
• Creating Wikis, Web Forms, and Polls
• Managing Blogs and RSS
• Deploying calendar portlet, WSRP, and Workflow portlet
• Content management and publishing
• Configuring instant messaging server, mail server, mail portlet, and SMS text messenger portlet
• Providing help-desk assistance and customer support information on the website
• Administering communities; using community tools; setting up virtual hosting, staging, and publishing for communities.
• Plugin management
• Handling federated search and OpenSearch and deploying search-based portlets
• Managing Admin portlet and Enterprise Admin portlet
• Integrating with Alfresco, LDAP, and SSO
• Applying SSO authentication for both portal and portlets

This book is a practical guide with a very user-friendly approach. The author has taken a virtual enterprise as an example and has used the features of Liferay to build a corporate intranet for that enterprise.

This book is for System Administrators or experienced users (not necessarily programmers) who want to install and use Liferay in their teams or businesses without dealing with complex code. Pre-knowledge of Liferay is not expected for this book.

Jonas X. Yuan

Jonas X. Yuan is a senior technical analyst at CIGNEX. Jonas holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zurich, where he focused on Integrity Control in Federated Database Systems. He earned his M.S and B.S. degrees in China, where he conducted research on expert systems for predicting landslides. Jonas is experienced in Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Previously, he has worked as a Project Manager and a Technical Architect in Web GIS (Geographic Information System). He has deep, hands on, skills in J2EE technologies. In particular, he developed a BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Engine called BPELPower from scratch in NASA data center. He also has strong experience on content management within the context of medical-legal billing case management. Furthermore, he is an expert in Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Alfresco, and Portals such as Liferay.