Liferay 6.2 User Interface Development

Liferay 6.2 User Interface Development, 9781782162346 (1782162348), Packt Publishing, 2013

Breathe new life into the look and responsiveness of your website with Liferay Portal. With this tutorial you'll learn everything you need to know about this versatile technology. Experience with Java would be a big help.

Overview

Create eye-catching themes, develop responsive layouts, and write portlets with various technologies that ensure efficiency and performance
Showcase the latest features in the user interface of Liferay 6.2 and provide solutions to real problems on recent projects
Implement Alloy User Interface to achieve the best page appearance and generate reports
This comprehensive guide is packed with screenshots for illustration and a lot of code examples that are ready to run

In Detail

Liferay employs a specialized theming system that allows you to change the look and feel of the user interfaces. Liferay Portal provides layout templates in order to describe how various columns and rows are arranged to display portlets. It also provides themes that can be used to customize the overall look and feel of web sites and web pages. As a developer, by using the right tools to create and manipulate themes with Liferay Portal 6.2, you can get your site to look any way you want it to; however the Liferay theming system can be difficult to get started with. This practical guide is a well organized manual to help you get started with Liferay as a programmer.

"Liferay 6.2 User Interface Development" will show you the efficient ways to develop custom user interface components for a Liferay Portal website. You will learn how to create themes, write page layouts, develop portlets, and use Alloy User Interface widgets. This book will prepare you with a full set of tools and skills for the development of Liferay user interfaces.

"Liferay 6.2 User Interface Development" guides you through the components of the Liferay Portal user interface step-by-step.The Liferay tags, analysis of the Alloy UI widgets, and the anatomy of a theme are explained in detail. Explanations are accompanied with screenshots and code that executes smoothly. This book explains how the components are rendered one after another into a complete HTML file.

You will learn how to create and upgrade a theme, how to write a responsive page layout and how to develop generic-style portlets, Spring MVC portlets, and Vaadin portlets. The book will help you in using Alloy UI, jQuery, Ext JS, and Dojo Toolkit in Liferay.

By the end of this book, you will have gained experience in developing all the user interface components for the Liferay Portal and know the latest ways of using tags, composing widgets, and writing Ajax calls and developing portlets, page layouts, and themes efficiently.

What you will learn from this book

Set up Liferay IDE for rapid development of plugins
Use Compass to write Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
Develop a responsive theme
Integrate Google Analytics in a theme
Create a page layout that responds to the change in width of the browser screen
Write generic-style portlets, Spring MVC portlets, and Vaadin portlets
Use jQuery, Ext JS, and Dojo Toolkit in a portlet
Develop a portlet using tools like OpenXava
Create an image gallery with Alloy UI
Construct an Alloy UI video player
Use Liferay tags for rich page rendering
Develop a mobile user interface, create reports, and enable searching

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