The Liferay Difference

• Portal history
• Introduction
• Portal structure
• User interface overview
• Designing a site

Getting Started with the Liferay Development Platform

• Installing Liferay and the Plugins SDK
• Server administration considerations
• Setting up the Plugins SDK
• Developing a portlet plugin
• Deploying and testing a portlet

A Data-Driven Portlet Made Easy

• Introducing a case study
• Designing the Product Registration portlet
• Generating DB code with Service Builder
• Creating a buffer to the persistence layer
• Using Service Builder

MVC the Liferay Way

• Using Model-View-Controller
• Configuring the portlet project
• Creating a form with AlloyUI taglibs
• Generating different field types with AlloyUI taglibs
• Using MVC makes portlet development simpler

Designing a Site with Themes and Layout Templates

• Understanding themes and their structure
• Understanding theme markup, CSS, and JavaScript
• The benefits of Alloy UI
• The liferay-look-and-feel.xml file
• Understanding theme conventions
• Designing a page with layout templates
• Case study implementation

Making a Site Social

• Why social networking is important
• Installing social networking portlets
• Understanding social features
• Using profile pages
• Making social relations
• Implementing social activities in portlets

Enabling User Collaboration

• Building a collaborative app
• Adding assets to the applications
• Running the data through a workflow
• Tagging and categorizing content
• Adding discussions and ratings
• Creating custom queries using SQL

Hooks

• What is a hook?
• What hooks can customize
• Working with Hooks

Extending Liferay Effectively

• Introducing Ext plugins
• Using Ext
• Delivering a page
• Understanding the development best practices

A Tour of Liferay APIs

• Making URLs friendly
• Organizing larger applications
• Filtering content at the view level
• Accessing other databases
• Sending messages over the message bus
• Scheduling jobs
• Indexing and search