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Overview of resources for portlet developers
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Standards #
- Portlet 1.0 (JSR-168)
- Portlet 2.0 (JSR-286): currently under development, Liferay is member of the Expert Group defining it:
Official documentation #
Here are direct links to the sections of Liferay's official documentation that deal with portlet development:
- PPT presentations on basic installation, development env. setup, JSP Portlets and Struts Portlets This is a good starting point
- Hot deploy portlet applications in Liferay
- Writting a simple JSPPortlet
It is also recommended that you check the example portlets when developing your own portlets for Liferay:
External resources #
Articles #
- Introduction to JSR 168 - The Portlet Specification
- Best Practices for Applying AJAX to JSR 168 Portlets
Blogs #
Books #
- Portlets and Apache Portals Free online 500 page book written by one of the original authors of JSR-168. It uses Apache Jetspeed and Pluto for code samples, but has great depth. Free registration is required for download.
Tools #
- Portlet bridges: Allow using regular web development frameworks such as Struts or JSF when developing portlets.
Wikis #
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