3 Review(s)

What you will learn from this book Provide complete coverage of both the commercial and open source versions of Life ray Portal 6.1 within the real-world example Knowledge Base port let Build basic and advanced MVC port lets with the Service-Builder and RBAC permissions, helping you to build enterprise-ready Java web sites Use Ext plugins and Hooks, allowing you to perform custom actions on your portal Manage images, documents, videos, audio and records using the Document and Media Library and record management Build web content and web forms using the WYSIWYG editors, Custom Attributes, assets tagging and classification and Dynamic Data List Create a collaborative and social API complete with Ratings, Comments, Subscriptions, Collaboration, Social Equity and Asset Links Improve your portal with staging, scheduling, remote publishing, caching, clustering, indexing, search and workflow. Build WAP mobile-based applications and leverage diverse port let bridges like JSF, Struts and Spring MVCIn Detail Life ray 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 Life ray portal, this book is all you need. Life ray Portal Systems Development shows Java developers how to use Life ray 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 Life ray portal as a framework. You will learn how to make all of your organization's data and web content easily accessible by customizing Life ray 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. Approach 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. Who this book is for This book is for Java developers who don't need any prior experience with Life ray portal. Although Liferay portal makes heavy use of open source frameworks, no prior experience of using these is assumed.