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Build Java-based custom intranet systems on top of Liferay portal
- Learn to use Liferay tools to create your own applications as a Java developer, with hands-on examples
- Customize Liferay portal using the JSR-286 portlet, extension environment, and Struts framework
- Build your own Social Office with portlets, hooks, and themes and manage your own community
- The only Liferay book aimed at Java developers
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Sample Chapter 5 Managing Pages [1.0 MB]
Table of Contents
Language English
Paperback 552 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date
May 2009
ISBN 1847194702
ISBN 13 978-1-847194-70-1
Author(s)
Jonas X. Yuan
Topics and Technologies
Java
A Java developer's guide to developing custom intranet systems, based on Liferay's platform
Liferay portal is one of the most mature portal frameworks in the market, offering many key business benefits that involve personalization, customization, and workflow. If you are a Java developer who wants to build custom web sites and intranet applications using Liferay portal, this is where your search ends.
This book shows how Java developers can use Liferay as a framework to develop custom intranet systems, based on Liferay portal platform thus helping you to maximize your productivity gains. Get ready for a rich, friendly, intuitive and collaborative end-user experience!
The author's experience customizing Liferay using Java enables him to explain in a clear and precise manner how to build custom systems on top of Liferay portal.
Using this book you can customize Liferay into a single point of access to all an organization's data, content, web content, and other information from both existing in-house applications (HR, CRM) and external sources (such as Alfresco, FatWire, Magnolia, Vignette).
Read the full Table of Contents for Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development
This book will give you plenty of hands-on examples to customize and extend Liferay portal. You will learn how to:
- Work with the JSR-286 portlets and Extension environment, helping you to build larger applications and reuse portlets in different scenarios
- Build basic and advanced Struts portlets with permissions and a set of actions helping you to build enterprise-ready Java web applications
- Manage communities and pages with locale and tracking features to employ layout templates dynamically
- Customize WYSIWYG editor FCKEditor – Making images, links, videos, games, video queues, video lists, and play lists as part of web content
- Empower CMS and WCM providing you with one central place to aggregate and manage all content
- Build My Community – Share web sites, pages, and portlets with friends allowing you to introduce control panel and inter-portlet communication
- Develop layout templates and themes in the Plugins SDK environment so that you can customize the overall look and feel of web sites and pages
- Build your Social Office with portlets, hooks, and themes enabling you to be a part of the team without sacrificing your preferences
- Stage, schedule, and publish web content with workflow capability allowing you to alter and manage what you have created
- Build custom attributes, OpenSearch, Spring services, and web services thus helping you to build dynamic web sites smoothly
Chapter 1: Introducing Liferay portal framework and architecture
What is Liferay portal?
Why do you use Liferay portal?
What is the framework and architecture of Liferay portal?
Portlet development strategies
Chapter 2: Working with JSR-286 portlets
Experiencing Liferay portal and portlets
Using JSR-286 portlets
Employing Portlet actions
Extending JSR-286 portlets
Serving resources
Coordinating portlets
Chapter 3: Using extension environment
Setting up the Ext
Building the Ext
Deploying the Ext
Employing SVN for portal source and Ext
Browsing a sample portlet – Reports – in the Ext
Using the Ext efficiently
Chapter 4: Experiencing Struts portlets
Developing the JSP Portlet
Constructing a basic Struts portlet
Building advanced Struts portlet
Using Struts efficiently
Chapter 5: Managing pages
Extending the Communities Portlet
Customizing the Manage – Pages Portlet
Extending page management
Using the community and layout page efficiently
Chapter 6: Customizing the WYSIWYG editor
Configuring the WYSIWYG HTML text editors
Adding templates and styles in the FCKEditor
Inserting images and links from different services
Inserting content-rich flashes into journal articles
Using the WYSIWYG HTML text editor FCKEditor efficiently
Chapter 7: Empowering CMS and WCM
Managing Terms of Use dynamically
Constructing featured content
Extending the journal articles portlet
Customizing theasset publisher portlet
Building dynamic articles with both recently added content and related content
Building dynamic articles with polls and related content
Using CMS and WCM efficiently
Chapter 8: Building My Community
Sharing with friends
Setting up most popular journal articles
Personalizing user comments
Customizing my account
Building my street
Using My Community efficiently
Chapter 9: Developing layout templates and themes
Building many layout templates in the Extension environment
Experiencing the Plugins SDK
Developing layout templates in the Plugins SDK
Building themes in the Plugins SDK
Adding Velocity services in themes
Using the Plugins SDK efficiently
Chapter 10: Building my social office
Experiencing the control panel
Building inter-portlet communication
Developing a Social Office theme
Adding mail and chat portlets
Building Social Office with portlets
Hooking portal properties and custom JSP files into Social Office
Using hooks efficiently
Chapter 11: Staging and Publishing
Building dynamic navigation and site map
Customizing event handlers and model listeners
Undergoing local staging and publishing
Employing staging workflow and other workflows
Scheduling pages and assets before publishing
Experiencing remote staging and publishing
Chapter 12: Using common API
Adding custom attributes
Building OpenSearch
Overriding Spring services
Constructing web services
Enjoying best practice
This book focuses on teaching by example. Every chapter provides an overview, and then dives right into hands-on examples so you can see and play with the solution in your own environment. All code samples run on both the latest Enterprise and Community releases.
This book will be most useful to professional Java developers who want to build custom web sites, portals, and highly customized intranet applications using Liferay portal as a framework.
This book is for Java developers, and you will get most from the book if you already work with Java but you need not have prior experience on Liferay portal. Although Liferay portal makes heavy use of open source frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, Struts, and Lucene, no prior experience using these is assumed.
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.
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