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/6.0/javadocs/

  • Reference documentation for Liferay's XML files:
    http://docs.liferay.com/portal/6.0/definitions/

  • Reference documentation for Liferay's taglibs:
    http://docs.liferay.com/portal/6.0/taglibs/

  • Sources for version 6 (use your liferay.com account to access them):
    http://svn.liferay.com/repos/public/portal/branches/6.0.6/

  • Sources of the development version:
    http://svn.liferay.com/browse/portal

• 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/

  • Quartz: http://www.quartz-scheduler.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/