[...]... the software that you need for the Liferay Beginners Guide book: ‹‹ ‹‹ JDK 1.6 Liferay Tomcat bundle – http://sourceforge.net/projects/ lportal/files /Liferay% 20Portal/6.0.6 /liferay- portaltomcat-6.0.6-20110225.zip/download ‹‹ Liferay JBoss bundle – http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files/ Liferay% 20Portal/6.0.6 /liferay- portal-jboss-6.0.6-20110225.zip/ download ‹‹ Liferay Glassfish bundle – http://sourceforge.net/projects/... http://sourceforge.net/projects/ lportal/files /Liferay% 20Portal/6.0.6 /liferay- portalglassfish-6.0.6-20110225.zip/download ‹‹ Liferay Portal WAR – http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files/ Liferay% 20Portal/6.0.6 /liferay- portal-6.0.6-20110225.war/ download ‹‹ Liferay Portal dependencies – http://sourceforge.net/projects/ lportal/files /Liferay% 20Portal/6.0.6 /liferay- portaldependencies-6.0.6-20110225.zip/download... Portal 7 What is Liferay Portal? Time for action – browsing sites based on Liferay Portal Definition of a portal Horizontal vs vertical portals Time for action – comparing Yahoo! and YouTube Open source vs commercial portals Time for action – finding the source code of Liferay Portal Liferay Portal architecture Web service provider Liferay is flexible Liferay is standard compliant Main Liferay Portal... 2: Installing a Liferay Portal Instance Getting started Liferay with Apache Tomcat Time for action – deploying on Tomcat Liferay with JBoss Application Server Time for action – deploying on JBoss AS Liferay with GlassFish Time for action – deploying in GlassFish Liferay with Oracle WebLogic Time for action – configuring Weblogic Configuring Oracle WebLogic Deploying Liferay on WebLogic Liferay on existing... functionalities of Liferay Liferay has a blog portlet A portal user can use it to post articles, which will be shared by the community members Its calendar portlet can be used to create events, which will show for all community members The wiki portlet allows a user to post his ideas Liferay' s message board portlet was used as a Liferay forum This chapter will delve deeper into Liferay organizations... By mid-2011, Liferay Portal had been deployed 250,000 times all around the world In this book, we will walk through Liferay' s functionalities by setting up a website using Liferay Portal You will learn how Liferay Portal works and how you can take advantage of its features In the following sections, we will do some preparation for that website We will talk about the following topics: • Liferay Portal... will talk about the following topics: • Liferay Portal concepts • Liferay architecture • Pre-requisites for Liferay Portal installation • Liferay Portal features Planning Your Portal Let us get familiar with our chessboard first and then place the king, queen, rooks, and other pieces, before we start the game What is Liferay Portal? Liferay Portal is a Java web application In a web application, a user... Optionally, Liferay Portal may also use other servers for additional functionalities Time for action – browsing sites based on Liferay Portal The Liferay Inc company site (http://www .liferay. com/) is based on Liferay Portal Go to the Liferay company site and notice the Liferay logo, and the blue hue of the page, as shown in the following screenshot: Now, go to the http://www.sesamestreet.org/ site of Sesame... Permissions in Liferay Chapter 7, Creating and Publishing Content, the content management system and the web content management functionality are two interesting features of Liferay Liferay's document library portlet allows users to upload documents in various formats User can set permissions on folders and documents Users can use the image gallery portlet to manage image files in the Liferay Portal... workflow Chapter 10, Liferay Server Administration, instructs reader on how to user liferay' s server administration features to maintain Liferay Portal server It talks about server resource management, logging configuration, virtual host configuration, and so on It also talks about how to configure staging environment Appendix A, PayPal Test Account Configuration, provides step-by-step guide to set up test . source code of Liferay Portal 12 Liferay Portal architecture 14 Web service provider 14 Liferay is exible 15 Liferay is standard compliant 15 Main Liferay Portal. Bha Samir Bha has been working on Liferay for more than two years and is a Liferay cered trainer. He is leading Liferay pracce at CIGNEX Datamacs.