Understanding Liferay Faces Portal

Liferay Faces Portal is distributed in a .jar file. You can add Liferay Faces Portal as a dependency for your portlet projects to use its Liferay-specific utilities and UI components. When Liferay Faces Portal is included in a JSF portlet project, the com.liferay.faces.portal.[version].jar file resides in the portlet’s library.

Figure 1: The required `.jar` files are downloaded for your JSF portlet based on the JSF UI Component Suite you configured.

Some of the features included in Liferay Faces Portal are:

• Utilities: Provides the LiferayPortletHelperUtil which contains a variety Portlet-API and Liferay-specific convenience methods.

• JSF Components: Provides a set of JSF equivalents for popular Liferay DXP JSP tags (not exhaustive):

  • liferay-ui:captcha → portal:captcha
  • liferay-ui:input-editor → portal:inputRichText
  • liferay-ui:search → portal:inputSearch
  • liferay-ui:header → portal:header
  • aui:nav → portal:nav
  • aui:nav-item → portal:navItem
  • aui:nav-bar → portal:navBar
  • liferay-security:permissionsURL → portal:permissionsURL
  • liferay-portlet:runtime → portal:runtime

  For more information, visit https://liferayfaces.org/web/guest/portal-showcase.

• Expression Language: Adds a set of EL keywords such as liferay for getting Liferay-specific info, and i18n for integration with out-of-the-box Liferay internationalized messages.

Great! You now have an understanding of what Liferay Faces Portal is, and what it accomplishes in your JSF application.

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