Liferay Training

1. 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

2. Liferay Setup

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

3. OSGI Concepts

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

4. 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)

5. 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

6. Portlet and Liferay Tag Libs in init.jsp

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

7. 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

8. Integrating Backend with Web Module

Integrating backend
Intro to the payrool application
Service builder for payrool application to generate Model layer
Write neccessary business logic in XXXLocalServiceImpl for CURD operations
Write controller methods regarding initial operations of payroll project
Building pages to perform minimum payroll oprations

9. MVCCommand Classes

What are MVCCommand classes
Types of MVCCommand classes
Reimplement all functionalities developed in 9 sections with MVCCommand classes

10. Content Management

What is content management
What is a web content article
What is Structure
What are template and FTL
Basic web content
Create new web content with custom structure and template
Test

11. Organisation & Users

What is organisation, why organisation
How to create orgnisation
Users, create users

12. Roles and Permissions

What is role and permission
Importance of role and permission in websites
Create role and permissions
Sample demo how roles and permissions works
Use roles and permissions in payrool project with real case
Test

13. Site, Site Template, Layout, Groups

What is site template and how to create site template
what is site and how to create site
What is layout
What is group
How to create layout and group
What is team, how to create team in Liferay

14. Themes

What is a theme?
Why theme?
How to create a theme
How to edit theme
How to apply a theme to an organization

15. Fragments

What is fragments
Fragment creation with a real example
Test

16. Final Project

Payrool website design
Payrool website creation
Payrool stake holders creation
Payrook roles and permissions
Complete website design
Payrool web module with required command classes
Payrool service builder with minimum business logic
Controler with minimum mediator logic
Building functionality views, roles and permissions
Checking entire flow

17. Customizations

What is customization and why we need customization
What we can customize ( controller, jsps, service builder,js)
How to override controller code
How to override js
Create user with role ( default role of payroll application) and permissions
Test

Recap of Entire Training Concepts

1. Development Environment

Installing Developer Studio
Liferay Development Environment

2. Module Lifecycle

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

3. Building Modules

4. Building Services

Service Architecture
Creating a Basic Service
Implementing Your Service

5. The JSR-286 Portlet Specification

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

6. Interacting with the Shell

Overview of the Shell
Bundle Installation
Deployment Status

7. Building Portlet Modules

Portlet Components
Configuring Portlet Attributes
Presentation Layer
Controller Layer

8. Debugging Module Deployment

Dependency Resolution
Troubleshooting Deployment
Discovering Services

9. Bringing Everything Together In a Real World Application

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

10. Bringing Everything Together in a Real World Application (Continued)

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

11. Upgrade Strategy

Upgrading from Liferay 6.2 to DXP

1. Liferay Platform Architecture and Toolsets

Development Environment
Platform Architecture

2. Developing on the Liferay Platform

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

3. Customization via Configuration

Configuration Framework
Customizing Default Settings

4. 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

5. Localization

Overriding Resource Bundles
Adding Locales

6. Customizing the Controller

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

7. Customizing the Service Layer

Overriding Services
Extending Services with Service Wrappers

8. Publishing Services

Simplifying Communication with REST Services
Publishing Web Services

9. Customizing the Persistence Layer

Intercepting Events with Model Listeners
Extending the Liferay Schema

10. Messaging

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

11. Authentication

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

12. Search

Customizing the Search Index
Tailoring Search Queries
Filtering Search Results Using Facets

13. Lifecycle Events

Injecting Custom Logic in the Request
Implementing Servlet / Portlet Filters
Customizing Server Startup
Participating in Shutdown Events