Code Conventions in Liferay

We are proud and passionate about super clean code. Wrap lines at 80 spaces and use real tabs equivalent to 4spaces. Follow the Java Code Conventions and read


The Elements of Java Style. And ABOVE all else, follow thprecedence of the rest of the code.

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Liferay with Groovy

Liferay with ruby
Liferay with PHP
Liferay with Groovy

• We can create Groovy, Ruby or PHP portlets and use them with Liferay
• Liferay plugins repository has several examples of these
  

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Liferay supports Web Services

Title:  Web services in Liferay

• JSON

• Hessian

• Burlap

• REST

*RMI

• Spring HTTP

• WSRP

• WebDAV

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Performance in Liferay

• Multi-tier clustering at any combination of multiple tiers(presentation, service, business logic, and  database)
• Advanced Caching
• Page Caching
• Load Balancing
• Session Replication
• Distributed Cache
• Static Content Export
• Liferay Portal has been deployed to Amazon EC2 which uses virtualization and cloud computing technologies to scale dynamically to geographically specific areas of demand.

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Security in Liferay

• Liferay Portal uses industry standard, governmentgrade encryption technologies including advanced algorithms such as DES, MD5 and RSA. Liferay was benchmarked as among the most secure portal platforms using LogicLibrary's Logiscan suite.
• ·         Pluggable Authentication
   
• Email Verification
• Granular Permissioning
• LDAP Authentication
•  Session Management

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Liferay Examples

Title : Liferay Sample Examples

1. http://www.webjunction.org
2.  http://www.worldvision.org
3.  http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal/stories

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Service Builder in Liferay

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• ·         Liferay has very good service builder utility. We can specify our domain model in a service.xml file and run an ant task. The utility will create Java files, Hibernate files,and service classes

• Service Builder is a RAD tool, we may choose to use our own service framework and layer instead

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Creating an extension environment in Liferay

Title : How to Create a extension environment in Liferay 




*An extension environment can be created from Liferay portal source

• The ext environment gives us complete control over the way the system behaves with ways to reconfigure default Liferay behavior

• release.adave.properties

• app.server.adave.properties

• ant clean start build-ext (takes 7-8 mins)

• ant clean deploy (takes 1-2 mins)

• Configure root.xml on tomcat to connect to database

• Run the app …

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Using the plugins sdk in liferay

·         Plugins sdk can be used to create portlets and themes and deploy them to the Liferay portal

·         Easiest and fastest way to start building the enterprise portal application

·         Plugins  are hot deployed to tomcat

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·          Plugins are fully JSR compliant and plugins developed outside sdk can also be used

*ant -Dportlet.name="hello-world" -Dportlet.display.name="Hello World " create

•ant -Dtheme.name="sample-theme" -Dtheme.display.name="Sample Theame “ Create

*ant deploy

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Why use Liferay

•  Need a portal based application
• Need rapid development and / or prototyping (Well, most projects do !)
• Need collaboration e-commerce,  internationalization

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