In Detail Liferay Portal is the world's leading open-source portal platform built on Java and Web 2.0 technologies. Corporations use it to provide a unified web interface to data and tools scattered across many sources. Liferay Portal uses the latest in Java, J2EE, and Web 2.0 technologies to deliver solutions for enterprises across both public and private sectors. Liferay Portal's flexibility allows it to be deployed in a number of different scenarios to meet key business needs. Some of the key business benefits are:

• A rich, friendly, intuitive, and collaborative end-user experience

• A single point of access to all information

• High adaptability to the demands of fast changing markets

• Highest value

• Lowest costs

• Installing and configuring Liferay Portal

• Setting up the navigation structure for the intranet

• Managing users, groups, and roles

• Enabling staff to communicate using discussion forums

• Marking content for easy retrieval using tags

• Creating Wikis, Web Forms, and Polls

• Managing Blogs and RSS

• Deploying calendar portlet, WSRP, and Workflow portlet

• Content management and publishing

• Configuring instant messaging server, mail server, mail portlet, and SMS text messenger portlet

• Providing help-desk assistance and customer support information on the website

• Administering communities; using community tools; setting up virtual hosting, staging, and publishing for communities.

• Plugin management

• Handling federated search and OpenSearch and deploying search-based portlets

• Managing Admin portlet and Enterprise Admin portlet

• Integrating with Alfresco, LDAP, and SSO

• Applying SSO authentication for both portal and portlets

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Not so great - 2008-08-13
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English is not the author's native language, and in this case it definitely causes some readability issues.

My biggest gripes, however, are with the content itself... or should I say lack of content. If you just stumbled into the concept of portals today and completely missed the documentation on the Liferay website then perhaps this book is for you. Otherwise, save your money and read the installation instructions from Liferay and just play with the software for ten minutes.

The interesting bits in the book are all generalized and only vaguely helpful. It's more like a product demonstration than an actual guide.

I almost gave the book two stars, but I became so frustrated trying to find anything useful in the index this morning that I chucked it into the recycle bin. On second thought, maybe I'll just donate it to the library.

Out of date - 2009-04-16
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This book is targeted for Liferay version 4. Do not buy this book if you've downloaded the latest Liferay release (5.2.x). Aside from the fact that this book is out of date with respect to the version, the grammar in this book made my brain ache; I couldn't read a paragraph without thinking "no professional could have written this book". I do not blame the author because he is clearly "not from 'round here"; I blame the publisher who must not be able to afford a technical editor with English grammar skills. Anyway, wait for the next version and hope that they have hired a skilled editor...

The Guide to Liferay - 2008-10-04
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I read the book Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets by Jonas Yuan. This is on of the few books that covers the spectrum of Liferay topics in a way that is readable to both the person looking to learn more about Portals, and someone who needs a tool to reference during the administration of a Liferay implementation.

In this guide, technical topics are detailed in such a way as to help even a novice navigate through them with ease. As a user of Liferay myself, this book now sits close at hand whenever I am doing something new.

I recommend this book for anyone looking to learn more or do more with Liferay. This resource will help many know what so many already do, that Liferay is one of the best Portal products available, commercial or open source!

A Good Book on Liferay Portal - 2008-08-11
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Yuan, Jonas. Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets. Birmingham, UK: Packt Publishing Ltd., 2008. Xi, 336 pp.
ISBN 13 978-1-847192-72-1, $59.99 soft cover

Reviewed by Xinsheng Chen, Cignex Technologies, Inc.

"Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets" (http://www.packtpub.com/building-liferay-portal-enterprise-intranets/book) is the first book on Liferay portal, the most popular open source portal framework. It is a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the administration of a Liferay portal. At first Dr. Jonas Yuan was supposed to write the book with two other Liferay engineers. Then the two Liferay engineers could not join the effort because of their tight work schedule -- there are only 40 software engineers in the world who are supporting this well-known portal framework. Dr. Yuan assumed the sole responsibility to write this book. He talked to consultants at Liferay and wrote the book at the same time when he was architecting a Sesame Street Project, which was based on Liferay Portal -- The book contains a lot of details from actual implementation of a real project. Dr. Juan started writing the book in January 2008. It was published in April 2008. I finished reading the book in June 2008. It is a book of great value to both Liferay fans and other Web application developers.

The book is intended for Web application designers, implementers and administrators who are interested in Liferay Portal. It illustrated in detail how to set up an enterprise intranet with Liferay. It includes step-by-step instructions on configuration of the portal. The book covers template, themes, layout, portlet, article, journal and portal -- It is worthwhile for any Web application fans to read the book.

The book is of 336 pages, including thirteen chapters. The first three chapters discuss about configuration for setting up the portal. The following nine chapters tell the reader how to configure the portal so as to take advantage of the multiple features of Liferay. The last chapter talks about integration of Liferay with Content Management Systems such as Alfresco.

Dr. Jonas exposes to the reader the various features of Liferay layer by layer. He first gives instructions on how to install the latest version of Liferay. Then he talks about setting up the most basic features like creating a user account. After that he deliberates on how to configure an internal blog. Finally the author explains how to integrate Liferay with other open source systems.

It is assumed that the reader of the book has knowledge in Java and domain. Such readers will then be introduced to wiki, Web form, blog, RSS, workflow and other features of Liferay.

The book is divided into 13 chapters. Each chapter consists of sections that focus on a topic of discussion. As expressed by Dr. Yuan in the book preface, "Liferay Portal is one of the most mature portal frameworks in the market ... Liferay is backed by a comprehensive professional services network ..."

The author has used a succinct way of illustration. He peels the corn layer by layer until the reader sees the grains. The instructions are listed in steps, accompanied by tables and screen-shots. This makes the instruction logic easy to follow.

Dr. Yuan clearly introduces the administration of a Liferay Portal. A reader can easily set up an intranet following the steps in the book. A Liferay fan can also learn a lot about portlet, layout, template and theme -- The book is like an encyclopedia on Web portal, though not that thick.

The author bases his statements on a real example portal. His instructions come from his actual practice in configuring a Liferay portal. Some paragraphs also come from his first-hand experience in developing the Sesame Street Project, which is based on Liferay.

The instructions contained in the book are detailed and neat. It has well served its purpose. However, the chapter on the integration of Liferay with Alfresco seems a little bit thin. If the author had talked more on that topic, it would be more beneficial to a reader -- Integration of two open source system is a very interesting topic.

Generally speaking, Dr. Yuan has achieved his goal in introducing Liferay to the readers in his "Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets." It is worthwhile for any Web application developer to read the book. As Liferay Portal is becoming more and more popular, it is a good idea to read this book early. This book has already aroused some interest among Web application developers. Liferay people in China have called Dr. Yuan asking him to have the book translated into Chinese. Many Chinese readers are also interested in this book.

Dr. Yuan has only focused on the Liferay Portal configuration in this book. However he talks little about project development based on Liferay. If he can write another book on implementation using Liferay plugins SDK and extension environment, that will be even better. The readers may expect the author's next book on Liferay implementation.

Buen libro, completo y facil comprensión - 2010-06-16
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Si est s interesado en montar una intranet y conocer a fondo esta tecnolog-ía, seguramente este es el libro que necesitas, completo y de f cil lectura. Como siempre, Packt pone a disposici-ón de los clientes tanto la versi-ón en papel como la versi-ón en PDF del libro (o los dos a la vez), algo que sin duda es una idea genial para consultas, b-úsquedas, eBooks readers y por quGÇÜ no, para los m s impacientes.

En el libro, orientado a usuarios avanzados, administradores y desarrolladores, encontramos temas interesantes (incluyendo un agradecimiento especial al amigo Jorge Ferrer), entre ellos me gustar-ía destacar las siguientes:

* Varias formas de integrar Liferay con Alfresco.
* LDAP, SSO y OpenX.
* CMS y WCM.
* Usabilidad y funcionalidades.
* Formularios, blogs, wikis y RSS.
* Secci-ón interesante aunque escueta sobre Liferay en la nube.

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