Required Tips and Topics for Learning Liferay

Introduction

Liferay is java based portal technology and it is open source. I will give some tips and topics from which you will get some idea and interest to start liferay.

Tips:

• We need have basic understand in fundamentals and core principles of java programming language.
• We need to have good understating about web and its related technologies.
• Don’t jump into direct programming and development instead of that understands the concepts and its use.
• Join liferay forums and other forum discussions so that you can interact with many experts and their answers.
• Explore Liferay Portal Source code.
• Execute sample examples, explore source code and its features it’s not only for Liferay other examples in java too.
• Don’t be feel pressure when you learn Liferay and initially it need minimum time to understand so don’t be scare or don’t give up in the middle of learning.
• Read all Liferay Guides like Liferay User Guide, Administration Guide and Developer guide.
• Read Liferay Wikis and there are many experts’ wikis are available.
• Read Liferay Experts Blogs Posts and Try to write blogs posts from your side.
• Daily spend minimum 30min time to explore and find new things in related technologies so that you can update your knowledge regularly.

Topics:

Core Java

• Object oriented principles
• JDK and Its API classes

Advanced Java

• JDBC
• Servlet
• JSP

Web Technologies

• HTML
• HTML DOM
• CSS
• Java Script (jQuery, AUI and YUI)
• AJAX
• XML
• XPath

RDBMS Databases and Its languages

• MySQL
• Oracle Database
• PostgreSQL
• SQL Language

Servers

• Web servers (Apache Web server)
• Application Servers (Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, GlassFish Server and Jetty)

MVC Based Frameworks

• Struts
• Spring
• JSF

Persistence Technologies

• Hibernate
• JPA

Portlet Technology

• Basics about Portal technology
• Difference between Portlet technology and Servlet Technology
• Portlet Specification (JSR 168&286)
• Servlet containers and Portlet Containers
• Portlet Lifecycles and Its execution Flow.
• Develop sample JSR 168&286 standard Portlet
• Understanding about Generic Portlet

Liferay

• Liferay Portal Basic Introduction
• Liferay Portal Installation
• Portlet Development Environment.
• Liferay MVC Portlet Development
• Liferay Service Builder
• Liferay Custom SQL and Dynamic Query API
• Liferay Portlet Preferences
• Inter Portlet Communication (IPC)
• Liferay Hooks
• Liferay Themes
• Liferay Exts
• Liferay Layouts
• Liferay webs

Tools:

• ANT
• MAVEN
• Eclipse
• Liferay IDE

Note:

We have many things in liferay you can follow the liferay developer guide which consist more topics.

Reference Links

http://javabeginnerstutorial.com/

http://www.w3schools.com/

http://www.roseindia.net/

http://www.javaworld.com/

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/

http://www.java2s.com/

http://www.java2share.com/

http://www.javabeat.net/

Author

Meera Prince

Liferay Top Contributor Award Winner

http://www.liferaysavvy.com