Welcome to the Developer’s Guide, Liferay’s official guide for developers. If you’re interested in developing applications on Liferay portal or customizing it, you’re in the right place. This guide assumes you already know what a portal is and how to use Liferay from an end-user perspective. If you don’t, please read the What is a Portal? article on liferay.com and the What is Liferay chapter in Using Liferay Portal.
This chapter summarizes how to to develop applications for Liferay and how to customize Liferay’s built-in applications, themes, and settings. You will develop Liferay plugins to encapsulate these applications and customizations. Finally, we’ll talk about technologies and tools available to use as you develop your plugins.
This chapter covers the following:
- Developing applications for Liferay: Ways to develop new applications and reuse existing applications
- Extending and customizing Liferay: Options for extending functionality and customizing your portal applications, themes, and templates
- Choosing your development tools: Comparison of tools available for developing applications for Liferay
Let’s talk about developing applications for Liferay.