What’s Liferay ?

Liferay Portal is a free and open source enterprise portal software product. Declared “Best Open Source Portal” by InfoWorld in 2007, it allows you to create web portal adopting a flexible architecture. It divides a webpage into a theme, a layout, and portlets. It is primarily used to power corporate intranets and extranets.

I will devote some posts to learn how to work with Liferay Portal.

Setting up the working environment

Below posts concerning the set up of the working environment

Database configuration

Set up your Liferay portal to work with one of the following SGBD:

Working with Portlets

Creating Liferay portlet

Create and deploy Liferay Portlet

Liferay Portlet configuration files

Understand the Liferay Portlet files

IPC (Inter Portlet Communication) for MVCPortlet

IPC using portlet session
IPC using public render parameters
IPC using event
IPC client side using Ajax

IPC (Inter Portlet Communication) for JSF Portlet

IPC using portlet session
IPC using public render parameters
IPC using event
IPC client side using Ajax

Ajax in MVCPortlet using AlloyUI or JQuery

Ajax in Liferay Portlet

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