Description
Book SynopsisExplore the development and customization of OSGi modules in Liferay DXP and choosing the right underlying technology for it. The book starts with the basic Liferay Architecture to understand how things work in Liferay DXP, as well as in OSGi.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: OSGi Basics
Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on explaining the core concept of OSGi, benefits and how it is being used in Liferay.
Subtopics:
1. Understanding OSGi
2. Introduction Bundles, Component and Services, Lifecycle
3. Liferay's OSGi Architecture
4. OSGi Benefits
Chapter 2: Liferay Development Basics
Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on initial development setup and underlying concept of Blade CLI, build tools, database connectivity and Liferay Modules creation.
Subtopics:
1. Liferay Workspace
2. Blade CLI
3. Build Tools
4. Database connectivity
5. Introduction to Liferay Modules
6. Introduction to Gogo shell
Chapter 3: Portlet Module Development
Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on basics and creation of portlet modules.
Subtopics:
1. Introduction to Portlet modules, Portlet specifications
2. Java Standard Portlets
3. Liferay Portlet Modules – LiferayMVC Portlets
4. Introduction to Other Portlet Modules
5. Gogo shell in action
Chapter 4: Advance Liferay Concepts
Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on advance concepts, such as message bus and Inter Portlet Communication (IPC).
Subtopics:
1. Inter Portlet Communication
2. Liferay Message Bus
3. Using service in Freemarker Templates
Chapter 5: Service Builder Concepts
Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on database connectivity and service builder and web services.
Subtopics:
1. Introduction to Service builder
2. Creation of services
3. Local services
4. Exposing and consuming web services
Chapter 6: Customization
Chapter Goal This chapter will focus on customization of default Liferay behavior
Subtopics:
1. Customizing User Interface with widget templates
2. Customizing MVC Action Commands
3. Customizing Services using wrappers
4. Customizing Models using ModelListners
5. Expando Attributes
6. Post and Pre-Actions
7. Customization of Search
