Liferay Portal
The objective of this 3-day course is to bring you up to speed on the functionality and development within Liferay Portal. This course will give you an extensive view on what Liferay is, what Liferay can('t) do for you out-of-the-box and how you can customize Liferay to your needs.
After this course you will be able to:
- Set up a portal website with pages and users
- Manage content inside the portal on a high level
- Create a look-and-feel for portal that reflects a corporate identity
- Develop custom portlets and other plugins
Contents
- What is a portal?
- Installation & Configuration
- Basic administration
- Content Management
- Advanced Content Management
- Setting up the Development Environment
- Theming
- Portlets
- Hooks
- Developing in the Extension Environment
- Advanced Customization
- Access Liferay's Web Services
For a detailed outline, click here.
Course Approach
You will start with an empty installation of the portal and elements will then be introduced one by one. These will evolve from simple customizations to more advanced aspects. Each topic of the course is concluded with hands-on exercises with an aggregation of all concepts at the end of each day. The course is designed to be very practical and interactive.
Requirements
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS and XML
- Basic knowledge of JSP and JSF (Java Server Faces)
- Some experience with Eclipse or a simular IDE is an advantage
- Knowledge of XSL or Velocity is an advantage but not required
- No prior knowledge of Liferay portal is required
Target Audience
- Developers who want to fully customize Liferay to their needs
- Portal / Site Administrators who want to manage content on a higher level
Period(s)
There are no public training classes scheduled.
Please contact us for possible private classes.
