Liferay Portal 6.1 - Development Guide

Resources for Liferay Developers

The following are useful reference resources for developers working with the Liferay Platform:

• Liferay specific resources:

  • What is a portal? http://www.liferay.com/products/what-is-a-portal

  • Platform Javadocs: http://docs.liferay.com/portal/6.1/javadocs/

  • Reference documentation for Liferay's XML files: http://docs.liferay.com/portal/6.1/definitions/

  • Reference documentation for Liferay's taglibs: http://docs.liferay.com/portal/6.1/taglibs/

  • Sources for version 6.1:

    • https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/tags
    • https://github.com/liferay/liferay-plugins/tags

  • Sources of the development version:

    • https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
    • https://github.com/liferay/liferay-plugins

• Related specifications and standards:

  • Java 5 Javadocs: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/

  • JavaEE 5 Javadocs: http://download.oracle.com/javaee/5/api/

  • JavaEE Overview: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/tech/index.html

  • Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR-286): http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=286

  • Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP): http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrp/

  • Java Content Repository (JSR-170): http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=170

  • Java Server Faces 1.2 (JSR-252): http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=252

  • Java Server Faces 2.0 (JSR-314): http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314

  • OpenSocial: http://www.opensocial.org/

  • Sitemap protocol: http://sitemaps.org/

  • WebDAV: http://webdav.org/

  • SOAP: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-soap12-part0-20070427/

  • HTML 5: http://html5.org/

  • WCAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20.php

• Related and commonly used technologies:

  • Spring Framework: http://www.springsource.org/

  • Hibernate: http://www.hibernate.org/

  • Struts 1: http://struts.apache.org/1.x/

  • Lucene: http://lucene.apache.org/

  • Alloy UI: http://alloy.liferay.com/

  • YUI 3: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/

  • jQuery: http://jquery.com/

  • IceFaces: http://www.icefaces.org/main/home/

  • PortletFaces: http://www.portletfaces.org/

  • Vaadin: http://vaadin.com/home

  • OpenXava: http://www.openxava.org/web/guest/liferay

  • Apache ant: http://ant.apache.org/

  • Maven: http://maven.apache.org/

  • Selenium: http://seleniumhq.org/

  • Tomcat: http://tomcat.apache.org/

  • JBoss Application Server: http://www.jboss.org/

Liferay India developers group on Facebook

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