Liferay in Action

HIGHLIGHT

Liferay Portal is the engine that powers some of the largest and most

successful web sites in the world. This book describes for developers

how to use this engine to power their own web sites.

 

DESCRIPTION

Liferay Portal is widely recognized as one of the premier portals on the

market today. It is an open source product that makes it very easy to

create a well-integrated, dynamic web site. Its functionality includes

many of the commonly used applications on web sites today: content

management, message boards, wikis, blogs, chat, and more.

Liferay in Action shows developers how to use Liferay Portal's

powerful development platform in order to jump-start the creation of

their own web site. They will learn how to use Liferay's Software

Development Kit to create portlets (web applications which run in a

portion of a page), themes, layout templates, and hooks, and how to

leverage its powerful APIs to implement and integrate their own

applications.

 

KEY POINTS

F • Complete coverage of Liferay Development SDKs

F • Author is Liferay’s documentation master

F • Tips for extending Liferay with custom functionality