this print for content only—size & color not accurate spine = 0.885" 384 page count Books for professionals By professionals ® Practical Liferay Java ™ -based Portal Applications Development Dear Reader, Congratulations! You are holding a comprehensive guide to the world’s most popular open source portal—Liferay. In spite of its growing popularity, Liferay does not come with very much documentation. With Practical Liferay, I aim to bridge the gap in understand- ing between Liferay and its potential users. The book describes, in detail, how to develop a practical portal using Liferay. It takes you through all the Liferay applications, from chat and messaging to blogs, calendars, wikis, and discussion forums. You will learn the purpose of each application; how to install, configure, and manage it; and how to put it to good practical use. There are also plenty of helpful tips on content management, user management, and security. Liferay application configuration is nontrivial for the first-time user, but this book gives you the answers you need. By following the step-by-step instructions provided for each application, you will quickly understand how to configure it to meet your needs. Once you have read the book and followed its detailed examples, you will have no difficulty setting up and managing an entire portal consisting of several Liferay applications. As you read on, each chapter will help you add features to your portal and tailor them to your own precise requirements. After the introductory chapters, you can read each chapter independently of the others. This can save you a lot of time in getting your portal up and running as quickly as possible. If you would like to evaluate the suitability of Liferay for your next portal development project, you will find Practical Liferay a valuable resource. If, on the other hand, you are already using Liferay, it will come in handy as a ready reference on the various Liferay commands and applications. And if you are developing a training course on Liferay, you will find it a wealth of useful information. Poornachandra Sarang Author of Pro Apache XML Business Process Execution Language for Web Services SOA Approach to Integration Shelve in Java Programming User level: Beginner–Intermediate Sarang Practical Liferay The eXperT’s Voice ® in open source Practical Liferay Java ™ -based Portal Applications Development cyan MaGenTa yelloW Black panTone 123 c Poornachandra Sarang, Ph.D. Companion eBook Available www.apress.com Companion eBook See last page for details on $10 eBook version A down-to-earth, practical approach to developing full-featured Java ™ -based web portals with blogs, wikis, and more ISBN 978-1-4302-1847-0 9 781430 218470 9 0 0 0 0 RELATED TITLES [...]... web portal In this chapter, you’ll first learn what a portal is You will then be introduced to Liferay, a popular open source framework for creating portals You’ll learn to install Liferay on your machine and create a portal of your own as you read through the book This chapter comprises the following sections: • What Is a Portal? • Kinds of Portals • Portal Advantages • Creating a Portal with Liferay. .. your portal • Chapter 11, “Enhancing Your Portal : As the other chapters have described, Liferay provides a number of applications that you can use to give your portal its core functionality But Liferay has become so popular that many Liferay users have developed useful tools that can help you enhance your portal even further You’ll learn to integrate these external tools into your portal, including applications. .. today’s portals Generally, these new types of portals give users tools and applications to create sites for social networking and collaboration I’ll describe one such portal, uPortal, later in this chapter The Liferay portal that we’ll explore also falls into this new category of portals Now that I’ve defined what a web portal is, I’ll discuss two real-life examples: Yahoo! and Google Example Portal: ... create a successful portal based on Liferay, you need a definitive guide that can take you through the various Liferay applications and teach you how to put together a portal quickly and easily Who This Book Is For You are probably reading this book because you are interested in creating your own portal based on Liferay, or because you want to maintain or enhance your existing Liferay portal Either way,... Liferay W eb portals have become commonplace in today’s online world While surfing the Internet, you often open web portals without even realizing it So what’s a portal, anyway? Why are portals so important? How do you create your own portal? Are there any frameworks and tools that are suitable for creating portals? What kind of management is required to maintain a portal? How do you administer a portal? ... Portal with Liferay • Liferay Features • Under the Hood • Installing Liferay • Testing the Liferay Installation What Is a Portal? You have already encountered a web portal if you’ve used Yahoo!—one of the world’s bestknown and most-used portals Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Movies, and Yahoo! Music each aggregate the contents provided by their partners This is exactly what a portal does: it provides... • Chapter 2, “Creating Portal Pages”: This chapter describes the basics for setting up a portal, using a case study that will serve as the example portal throughout the book You will learn to create a portal, define portal pages, set page layouts and themes, and download and install third-party plugins xxv xxvi ■INT ROD UC TION • Chapter 3, “Managing Portal Users”: A portal is used by a number... apps, wikis, discussion forums, and shared calendars Liferay lets you offer these kinds of features on your portal by providing a runtime environment for hosting Java™-based portal applications, also known as portlets It offers a container where you assemble the portlets, configure them, and set their look and feel In addition to the portlets offered by Liferay, you have access to third-party portlets... “Introducing and Installing Liferay : This chapter defines what a portal is, describes the various types of portals, explains their advantages, and gives a brief overview of the various tools available to create them Finally, it introduces Liferay itself You’ll get an introduction to Liferay s important features and its internal architecture, after which you’ll learn to install and test Liferay on your machine... way, this book meets your requirements by covering Liferay and its various applications in depth You’ll get a thorough introduction to the operation and function of a number of Life­ ray applications, including step-by-step instructions on how to install and use them on your own portal How This Book Is Structured This book is a comprehensive guide to Liferay It deals with every aspect of obtaining, installing, . x0 y45 w2 h16" alt="" Practical Liferay Java ™ -based Portal Applications Development Poornachandra Sarang, Ph.D. Practical Liferay: Java™-based Portal Applications Development Copyright ©. Programming User level: Beginner–Intermediate Sarang Practical Liferay The eXperT’s Voice ® in open source Practical Liferay Java ™ -based Portal Applications Development cyan MaGenTa yelloW Black . professionals ® Practical Liferay Java ™ -based Portal Applications Development Dear Reader, Congratulations! You are holding a comprehensive guide to the world’s most popular open source portal Liferay.