The Liferay Documentation is currently undergoing an overhaul. Currently, these are the outlines we are working with to create the new guides.

Liferay Administration Guide #

I.Initial Setup

• 1.Obtaining Liferay
• 2.Installing a Bundle
• 3.Installing Liferay for a Developer
• 1.Debugging Liferay
• 2.Ext environment
• 4.Installing Liferay for an Enterprise
• 1.Database Setup
• 1.Minimal script
• 2.Complete Script
• 2.Turning a Bundle into an Enterprise Portal
• 3.Installing Liferay to an Existing Application Server
• 1.Tomcat
• 2.Jboss
• 3.Oracle
• 4.WebLogic
• 5.WebSphere
• 6.Glassfish
• 7.Geronimo
• 8.Others? (Contributions from the community)
• 4.Making Liferay Coexist with other JavaEE Applications
• 1.Deploying in non-root context

II.Configuration

• 1.Fitting Liferay into Your Environment
• 1.Enterprise Admin (Domain, mail domain, etc.)
• 2.Admin portlet
• 3.Plugin Installer portlet
• 4.Password Policies
• 2.Advanced Liferay Configuration
• 1.portal-ext.properties
• 2.ext-spring.xml
• 3.JCR (JSR-170) repositories
• 1.(Jackrabbit) Configuration
• 2.Plugging in another JCR (Alfresco? Magnolia?)
• 3.Alternatives (S3, File System, etc)
• 4.Plugin Management
• 1.Installing Plugins from Liferay's Community Repository and Liferay's Official Repository
• 1. Installing Plugins Manually
• 2. Plugin Troubleshooting
• 2.Creating Your Own Plugin Repository
• 5.Liferay SOA
• 1.Liferay Remoting
• 2.Webservices in Liferay (SOA)
• 3.JSON services in Liferay

III.Advanced Configuration

• 1.Clustering Liferay
• 1.Distributed caching
• 2.Clustering Jackrabbit
• 3.Single Sign-On - General Concepts
• 1.CAS
• 2.OpenID
• 3.Novell
• 4.SiteMinder
• 4.Integration with LDAP
• 5.Integration with Open Fire
• 6.Deploying a Customized Liferay (ext)
• 7.Performance tuning and testing
• 1.JVM Monitors
• 2.Performance Testing Tools

IV.Portal Administration

• 1.The Permissions System Explained: Power Users, Communities, Pages config, User groups, Roles, Organizations
• 2.Enterprise / Organization Admin
• 3.Administering communities and web pages
• 4.Using the Liferay CMS
• 1.Articles:
• 1.Structures
• 2.Templates
• 3.Article Types
• 4.Articles
• 2.Using the Document Library
• 3.Using the Image Gallery
• 4.Publishing Portlets (Asset Publisher, Journal Articles, Journal Content, etc.)
• 5.Bookmarks
• 5.Collaboration
• 1.Using the Calendar
• 2.Using the Mail Portlet
• 3.Using the Message Boards
• 4.Using the Blog (adding video content)
• 5.Using the Wiki
• 6.Commerce
• 1.Shopping Cart
• 2.Amazon
• 7.Reporting (future...)
• 1.Pentaho
• 2.JasperReports
• 8.Misc Portlets Google, Amazon, etc.

V.Maintaining a Liferay Portal

• 1.Monitoring
• 1.Utilization (session tracking may want to leave this out)
• 2.Traffic Analysis (google analytics)
• 3.User Audit Trails
• 2.How to Backup a Liferay Installation
• 3.Using Logging

Liferay Developers' Guide #

I.Initial Setup

• 1.Strategy Decision: Hot Deploy via Plugins, Ext (customize), or Both

II.Tools

• 1.Liferay SDK
• 1.Plugins Environment
• 2.Extension Environment
• 2.Other Tools (Eclipse Lomboz, Netbeans, ...)

III.Hot Deploy Development

• 1.Introduction to JSR-168 Portlets
• 2.Creating Liferay Themes and Layouts
• 3.Struts Portlets
• 4.Spring Portlets
• 5.JSF Portlets
• 6.ICE Faces portlets
• 7.PHP Portlets
• 8.Ruby Portlets

IV.Customizing Liferay: Developing in the Extension Environment

• 1.Tools Setup
• 1.Ant >= 1.7.0
• 2.Jikes
• 3.Liferay Source—create properties files
• 2.Integrating with Open Source IDEs
• 1.Eclipse
• 2.Netbeans
• 3.Customizing Liferay
• 1.ext-web
• 2.struts-config-ext.xml
• 3.Writing Internal Portlets
• 4.Advanced Development
• 1.Using the Service Builder to add / modify Liferay's tables
• 2.Using Liferay's Web Services
• 3.Dynamic Queries

V.Liferay's Architecture

• 1.Object Model / Interfaces
• 2.Liferay's Use of Hibernate
• 3.Liferay's Use of Spring, including Remoting
• 4.Liferay's Use of Struts
• 5.Liferay's Use of Jquery
• 6.Liferay's Use of JSON

VI.Liferay Contributor's Guide

• 1.How to contribute to Liferay. Contribution Process
• 2.Developer Guidelines
• 1.Coding Standards
• 2.Design Techniques and Patterns
• 3.Automated Testing

VII. Commonly Used Liferay APIs

• 1.Java and Web Service APIs
• 1.User, Groups, and Organizations
• 2.Document Library
• 3.Util Classes (PortalUtil, etc)
• 4.Layout Services
• 2.JSP Tag Libraries