I got an oppurtunity to review the new book from Packt publishing - Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development by Jonas Yuan.
A few words about this book.
This is a nice begineer to intermediate to semi-expert level book. The book begins with a nice overview of the liferay portal system and WCM and introduction to JSR 286 portlets. The author then gradually raises the bar with more details on how to develop portlets, manage pages, and customizing the portal.
My favorite chapters of the book were the chapters on Social Office, Staging & Publishing and using common api.
Actually the social office chapter was quite a surprise. The author has given good treatment to the topics explaining them in sufficiant detail for a beginner and at the same time making it relevant to the advanced users. The author has also explained the events and hooks very well.
One more thing that I liked about the book was that the author explains how the code works out of the box and then how to customize it. I liked the "Whats happening?" sections of the book
One of the things I do not like is that there are a few sections in the book like "Using SCORM" that do not talk about the topic in detail. This raised the expectations but then quickly brought them down looking at just a few lines of explanation. However there were not a whole lot of such topics.
All in all I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to get started with Liferay and get a good handle on the system.
A few words about this book.
This is a nice begineer to intermediate to semi-expert level book. The book begins with a nice overview of the liferay portal system and WCM and introduction to JSR 286 portlets. The author then gradually raises the bar with more details on how to develop portlets, manage pages, and customizing the portal.
My favorite chapters of the book were the chapters on Social Office, Staging & Publishing and using common api.
Actually the social office chapter was quite a surprise. The author has given good treatment to the topics explaining them in sufficiant detail for a beginner and at the same time making it relevant to the advanced users. The author has also explained the events and hooks very well.
One more thing that I liked about the book was that the author explains how the code works out of the box and then how to customize it. I liked the "Whats happening?" sections of the book
One of the things I do not like is that there are a few sections in the book like "Using SCORM" that do not talk about the topic in detail. This raised the expectations but then quickly brought them down looking at just a few lines of explanation. However there were not a whole lot of such topics.
All in all I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to get started with Liferay and get a good handle on the system.
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