The Liferay course is designed to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of Liferay Portal, a leading open-source enterprise portal framework used to create dynamic websites and web applications.  In this Liferay training Experience the real-time implementation of different features of general familiarization to Liferay tools and their applications, Problem formulation and how to handle very complex tasks, Difference between internet and intranet and etc. This Training is the quickest way to learn best practices for developing Liferay plugins, successful deployment, administration, or tuning of Liferay Portal. Get hands-on experience on Liferay's built-in web content management system allowing users to build websites and portals as an assembly of themes, pages, portlets, and a common navigation.

Course Objectives:

In this course, you will learn to:

• Understanding web content in portal applications
• Learn about Liferay portlet plugins development
• Installation of plugins SDK and eclipse Liferay ide
• Setting up the plugin environment.
• Developing a layout and a portlet.
• Liferay tools and their applications
• Liferay plugins
• Administration
• Problem formulation
• Tuning of Liferay portal
• Portlets

Course content

Intro About Liferay

• What is portal and example of portals
• What is website
• Difference between website and portal
• What is Liferay
• What is portlet
• Difference between portlet and servlet
• Portlet specifications JSR 168 and 286

Liferay Setup

• Prerequisites to do Liferay setupLiferay setup
• Portal configuration with a little bit of internals

OSGI Concepts

• What is OSGI, why it is
• OSGI features
• What is modularity
• OSGI declarative services
• What is bundle
• What is bnd.bnd

Hello World Portlet

• Recap of portlet
• How to create a module-based portlet
• Info about module files
• Drop module on page
• One test ( create new jsp page and onclick navigate to that page)

Portlet Life Cycle

• What is life cycle
• JSR 168 life cycle methods
• JSR 286 life cycle methods
• A sample project explaing all liferay cycle methods and urls
• Test

Portlet and Liferay Tag Libs in init.jsp

• Liferay-theme & implicit objects given it
• Liferay-UI
• Liferay-portlet & implicit objects given it
• Test project

Backend Introduction with MVC

• What is a service builder
• Service module creation with payroll entity entities
• Overview of generated classes
• Business login in XXXLocalServiceImpl
• Finder methods & finder methods with filter
• Custom SQL queries
• Dynamic quires
• Test

Integrating Backend with Web Module

• Integrating backend
• Intro to the payrool application
• Service builder for payrool application to generate Model layer

Liferay Fundamentals

Getting Started With Liferay

• Installing Liferay Portal
• Familiarizing Yourself with Liferay’s User Interface
• Get started with Portal Configuration

Fundamental Liferay Concepts

• Grouping and Displaying Content Using Sites
• Sharing Content through Site Hierarchy
• How to manage Users using Organizations and User Groups

Managing Permission Through Roles

• What are Permissions?
• What are Roles?
• Creating and using Roles effectively
• Delegating Permissions using Teams

Basic Page Management

• Site Navigation
• Creating and Managing Pages
• Setting Page Permissions
• Site and Page Templates

Introduction To Liferay’s Asset Framework

• What is an Asset?
• Assets available in Liferay out of the box
• Adding Metadata using Tags and Categories

Basic Web Content

• Basic Web Content Creation
• Placing and Displaying Content
• Organizing Content with Content folders
• Using the Recycle Bin

Managing Documents and Media

• Creating Documents in Liferay
• Storing Files and Folders
• Adding metadata to documents

Encouraging Collaboration in Liferay

• Understanding the Tools used for Collaboration
• Managing the Tools used for Collaboration

Enhancing Networking and Collaboration

• Measuring User Participation
• Enabling Users to connect with one another
• Integrating Liferay with other Social Networks

Connecting to External Services

• Embedding Web Sites
• Publishing RSS Feeds
• Placing Remote Portlets

A Deeper look into Liferay’s Asset Framework

• Relating Content through the Asset Framework
• Learning how to enhance Content through the Asset Framework
• Monitoring Content

Liferay Application Developer

Development Environment

• Installing Developer Studio
• Liferay Development Environment

Module Lifecycle

• Developing Applications in the Module Framework
• What are Modules?
• What are Components?
• Application Lifecycle

Building Modules

Building Services

• Service Architecture
• Creating a Basic Service
• Implementing Your Service

The JSR-286 Portlet Specification

• A JSR-286 Portlet Specification
• What are Portlets?
• The Portlet Lifecycle
• What is IPC?

Interacting with the Shell

• Overview of the Shell
• Bundle Installation
• Deployment Status

Building Portlet Modules

• Portlet Components
• Configuring Portlet Attributes
• Presentation Layer
• Controller Layer

Debugging Module Deployment

• Dependency Resolution
• Troubleshooting Deployment
• Discovering Services

Bringing Everything Together In a Real World Application

• Project Overview
• Creating the Portlet
• Model & Persistence Layer
• Service Layer
• View Layer

Bringing Everything Together in a Real World Application (Continued)

• Liferay Utilities
• Validation and Feedback
• Implementing Permissions
• Liferay Services
• Integrating with Liferay Frameworks

Upgrade Strategy

• Upgrading from Liferay 6.2 to DXP

Liferay Platform Developer

Liferay Platform Architecture and Toolsets

• Development Environment
• Platform Architecture

Developing on the Liferay Platform

• Introducing OSGi
• Customizing with Modules
• Module Lifecycle
• Implementing Features with Components
• Deploying Customizations with the Shell

Customization via Configuration

• Configuration Framework
• Customizing Default Settings

Customizing the View

• Developing Custom Application UIs through the GUI
• Overriding Application JSPs
• Overriding Kernel JSPs
• Using JavaScript Extension Points to Change Core Behavior
• Customizing Product Navigation Menus

Localization

• Overriding Resource Bundles
• Adding Locales

Customizing the Controller

• Using MVC Commands to Override the Controller
• Render Commands
• Action Commands
• Overriding the Controller in the Kernel

Customizing the Service Layer

• Overriding Services
• Extending Services with Service Wrappers

Publishing Services

• Simplifying Communication with REST Services
• Publishing Web Services

Customizing the Persistence Layer

• Intercepting Events with Model Listeners
• Extending the Liferay Schema

Messaging

• Message Bus: Liferay’s Lightweight Framework
• Sending Messages Across the Network

Authentication

• Customizing the Authentication Pipeline
• Using LDAP Sync to Map Users
• Automatically Logging In Users
• Securing Remote Access with AuthVerifiers

Search

Liferay Front-End Developer

The New UI Landscape

• Lexicon: Liferay’s Design Language
• Modern JavaScript Design with ES2015
• Creating UI Components with Metal.js
• Maintaining Alloy UI

Developing Themes

• Building and Generating Themes
• Customizing Lexicon and Bootstrap Components
• Styling Applications
• Creating and Using Reusable Themelets
• Packaging Content in Themes
• Embedding Applications

Customizing the Page Layout

• Creating Layout Templates
• Embedding Applications into Templates

Styling in Liferay with Display Templates

• Liferay’s Templating Options

Delivering Consistent Content Experiences

• Styling Web Content with Templates
• Creating and Previewing Content Templates

Customizing Email Notifications

• Creating Notifications with FreeMarker Templates
• Using Tag Libraries in Templates

Customizing Application UIs

• Controlling Application Presentation

Advanced Templates

• Using Google Closure Templates with Metal.js

Liferay System Administrator

Installation

• Installing a Liferay Bundle
• Connecting to external databases and mail servers
• Installing Liferay Manually on an Existing Application Server

Configuring Liferay

• Server Administration through the Control Panel
• Plugin Management
• Liferay Marketplace
• Configuring Liferay Services Oriented Architecture

Clustering

• Introduction to Cluster Design
• Creating a Liferay Cluster
• Principles of Liferay Clustering
• Configuring Quartz for Job Scheduling
• Syncing the Database Cache across your Cluster
• Clustering Documents and Media
• Syncing Search Indexes
• Setting up a Solr Server
• Session Replication
• Load Balancing using Apache
• Deploying Plugins across a Cluster

External Services

• Using External Services for Document Previews
• Setting up ImageMagick Higher Quality Image Previews
• Setting up LibreOffice for Document Conversion
• Configuring Xuggler for Audio/Video Previews
• Setting up Liferay as a WSRP Producer and Consumer

Performance Tuning Overview

• Load Testing
• Profiling
• Memory Management
• Garbage Collection
• Cache Optimization
• Optimizing Lucene
• Configuring a Content Delivery Network
• Database Sharding

Maintaining Liferay

• Liferay Monitoring
• Backing Up a Liferay Installation

Log Levels

• Upgrading Liferay
• Installing Fix Packs Using the Patching Tool

Liferay Content Management

Driving the Content Process in Liferay

• Content Management Concepts
• Solving Real-World Content Needs

Authoring Content

• Storing Content in Liferay
• Web Content Management
• Document Management
• Generating Customer Engagement with Blogs
• Providing Real-Time Updates on Team Projects

Organizing Content

• Using Folders to Organize Content
• Tagging and Categorizing Content to Make Searching Faster

Managing Content

• Changing Content Display Options
• Automating Content Updates with Asset Publisher

Managing Content (continued)

• Applying Consistent Design to Content with Structures
• Improving SEO Ranking with Metadata
• Incorporating Accessibility Practices

Syncing Content Between Teams

• Managing Documents with Liferay Sync
• Separating Team Projects Across Wiki Nodes

Delivering Content to the Right Audience

• Defining User Segments
• Targeting Content to Different User Segments
• Gathering User Analytics
• Integrating Google Analytics

Publishing Content to Live

• Reviewing Content Submissions
• Staging Content Before Publishing

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