Liferay Development Guide

Liferay Portal 6.1 - Development Guide

1. Preface
   • Publisher Notes
2. Introduction
   • Developing applications for Liferay 
   • Extending and customizing Liferay 
   • Choosing the best tool for the job
3. The Plugins SDK
   • Installing the SDK 
   • Structure of the SDK 
   • Best Practices 
   • Maven alternative
4. Portlet Development
   • Creating a Portlet 
   • Anatomy of a Portlet 
   • Writing the My Greeting Portlet 
   • Understanding the Two phases of Portlet Execution
   • Passing Information from the Action Phase to the Render Phase 
   • Developing a Portlet with Multiple Actions 
   • Adding Friendly URL Mapping to the Portlet
5. Creating Liferay Themes
   • Introduction 
   • Creating a Theme 
   • Anatomy of a Theme 
   • Thumbnails 
   • JavaScript 
   • Settings 
   • Color Schemes 
   • Portal Predefined Settings 
   • Theme inheritance
6. Hooks
   • Creating a Hook 
   • Overriding a JSP 
   • Customizing JSPs without overriding the original 
   • Performing a Custom Action 
   • Extending and Overriding portal.properties 
   • Overriding a Portal Service 
   • Overriding a Language.properties File 
   • Other hooks 
   • Conclusion
7. Ext plugins
   • Creating an Ext plugin 
   • Developing an Ext plugin 
   • Deploying in production 
   • Migrating old extension environments 
   • Conclusions
8. Liferay IDE
   • Installation 
   • Set up 
   • Testing/Launching Liferay Tomcat Server 
   • Creating New Liferay Projects 
   • Deploying New Liferay Projects to Liferay Server 
   • Importing Existing Projects into Liferay IDE 
   • Conclusion
9. Liferay APIs
   • Invoking the API locally 
   • Invoking the API remotely 
   • Service Security Layers 
   • SOAP Web Services 
   • JSON Web Services 
   • Service Context 
   • Conclusion
10. Liferay Frameworks
    • Service Builder 
    • Security and Permissions 
    • Asset Framework 
    • File Storage Framework 
    • Other frameworks
11. Resources for Liferay Developers
12. Conclusions