Web portals often function as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web. Web portals, such as Yahoo!, present information from diverse sources in a unified way. Aside from the search engine standard, web portals offer other services such as email, news, stock prices, infotainment, and various other features. Portals provide a means for enterprises to supply a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications that otherwise would have been separate entities altogether.

So, how do developers bring existing applications, as well as integrate content management systems and search engines, into a portal? And how do developers get started with the Liferay Portal engine? In Practical Liferay: Javabased Portal Applications Development , Dr. Poornachandra Sarang answers these questions and more.

This book is for those who want to learn how to use Liferay to develop vertical or companyspecific web portals and beyond. The book will serve as a practical guide to learning Liferay and developing realworld web portals.

One of the first books on Liferay PENDING This book is endorsed by Liferay Founder and Lead Liferay is open source, best of breed Portal development and deployment tool in Java market The Author, Dr. Sarang, has over 20 years of experience and is an expert developer, author and more

Autorentext
Dr. Poornachandra Sarang has worked in various capacities in the IT industry during his tenure of more than 20 years. Dr. Sarang provides consulting and training in enterprise architecting, solution architecting, design and development to a large number of clients worldwide. He has been a consultant to Sun Microsystems for several years and his recent engagements include director of architecture for Kynetia (a Spanish origin MNC). He has been a recipient of Microsoft's "Most Valuable Professional" award for two consecutive years. He has spoken on Java/CORBA/XML/.NET at several international conferences organized by O'Reilly, SYS-CON, WROX, SUN and Microsoft in countries including India, U.S.A., U.K., Switzerland, and Singapore. He has been invited to deliver keynote speeches in highly-acclaimed Microsoft Architect Summits and several other prestigious events. He has several research papers, journal articles and books to his credit. Dr. Sarang has been a visiting professor of computer engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and currently holds a position of adjunct faculty at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Mumbai, India, where he teaches post-graduates courses, provides project guidance to post-graduate students and guides Ph.D. students. His current research interests include distributed systems, mobile computing and algorithm development. He may be reached at profsarang@gmail.com.

Inhalt
Introducing and Installing Liferay.- Creating Portal Pages.- Managing Portal Users.- Creating Discussion Forums.- Facilitating Collaboration.- Incorporating Blogs.- Establishing a Wiki.- Implementing a Shared Calendar.- Managing Content.- Publishing Dynamic Content.- Enhancing your Portal.- Doing Portal Administration.