Basic training on Liferay

1. LifeRay
Mayur Sand

2.  Introducing Liferay
 Terminologies
 Liferay Use Cases
 Liferay Features
 Liferay Application
Development
 Liferay CI and Automation
 Why Liferay

3. Introducing Liferay
Liferay Portal is the open source leader for enterprise portal technology.

4. What is a Portal?
Software platform for building websites & web
applications.

5. How does a Portal Work?
 Portals build websites by assembling portlets (small
web applications) or gadgets onto a portal page.

6. What is Liferay?
It's a WebSite...
It's a Portal...
It's a CMS...
It is Liferay !

7. Liferay Framework

8. Liferay Use Cases
Popular use cases include:
 Web publishing & content management
 Intranet / Extranet
 Collaboration platform
 Social network

9. Liferay Features
Content Management
Web Content
• Full Web Publishing
• Asset Library
• Documents
• Images
• Videos
• Office Integration
• Structures and Templates
Document Management
• Users can change their views of repository
folders
• Inline preview of documents
• Document metadata is easy to find
• Versions are easy to review
• Key Messages:
• Liferay makes collaborating on
documents easy
• Liferay can be the only CMS users need
Collaboration Suite
Enterprise-Class Collaboration Tools
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Message Boards
• Enterprise Chat
• Ratings and Comments
• Tagging and Categorization
• Social Equity

10.  Extend existing Liferay behavior/features/classes..
 Create something brand new..
 Developing against third party interfaces, web
services, and other APIs..

11. Plugins
 Plugins are separate hot deployable war files.
 Currently there are six types of plugins:
 Portlets
 Themes
 Layout Templates
 Hooks
 EXT
 Web Modules
 Plugins SDK: Simple environment for development
of Liferay plugins.

13. Portlet Plugins
 Portlets are small web
applications that run
in a portion of a web
page.
 Choose from existing
Liferay portlets
(https://github.com/life
ray/liferay-
plugins/tree/master/po
rtlets)
 Define a custom
portlet application to
suit your business
need.

14. Theme Plugins
 Customize the
overall look and feel
of Liferay.
 Written using
templating
languages Velocity
and Freemarker.
 Integrate nicely with
the web
technologies you
already know:
HTML, Cascading
Style Sheets
(CSS), and
JavaScript.

16. Default Liferay Theme

17. What you can achieve?

18. Layout Templates- How your portlets will be
arranged on a page?

19. Hooks
 Allow you as a developer to override parts of core
Liferay with your own implementation.
 Lightweight customizable archive.
 Allow customization of 4 main features:
 Portal properties
 E.g. Disable default “Terms and Conditions” page for a new
user
 Language properties : Per country and per key.
 JSP files
 Change the look and feel of existing portlets
 Services

20. Liferay Hooks

21. EXT Plugins
 An EXT plugin can
modify the portal's core
classes and behavior in
ways that are not
possible with a Hook.
 E.g. Removing sections
from user profile
 Not Recommended:
 Not hot deployable
 Complicated
redeployment process

22. Web Plugins
 Integrate with 3rd party web applications.
 Search engine integration plugins : E.g. Solr-web
 Enterprise Service Bus integration plugins
 Workflow plugins

23. Liferay CI and Automation
Jenkin
s
TFSAutomation
Scripts
Ant
Dev LifeRay
Portal
 QA
LifeRay
Portal
Remote
Publish
LAR
LAR files
back to
Jenkins

24. Why Liferay??

26. Why Liferay?
 Open Source
 Zero License Fees
 Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
 Rich out-of-the-box functionality
 Open architecture
 High Compatibility
 Immediate ROI
 Choice of application servers, databases, and
operating systems