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20141125 - Ray Auge - OSGi

Practical Liferay Modularity and OSGi

When: 25 November 2014 @ 1500 GMT

Led by: Ray Augé

Join us for this hands-on session with Ray Augé, Senior Software Architect at Liferay, and explore some practical exercises that you can do with OSGi today, including:

  • Creating and deploying custom small (micro) services to Liferay with OSGi
  • Administering the service using modern techniques along with Liferay's new modular architecture.
Pre-Session Setup and Needed Materials

Basic setup requirements before the session:

  • A running Liferay 6.2 installation (with no modifications needed)
  • A development environment (like Liferay IDE) to be able to create and deploy portlets

Automated testing of Liferay plugins with Arquillian

When: 18 November 2014 @ 1500 GMT

Led by: Carlos Sierra

Testing Liferay plugins used not to be an easy task. In this talk we will go through the current and future arquillian integrations to test Liferay plugins using Arquillian. Arquillian is an innovative and highly extensible testing platform for the JVM that enables developers to easily create automated integration, functional and acceptance tests for Java middleware.

Pre-Session Setup and Needed Materials

Basic setup requirements before the session:

  • A running Liferay 6.2 installation (with no modifications needed)
  • A development environment (like Liferay IDE) to be able to create and deploy portlets

If you are going to follow along at home, have this github repo handy.