Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, each chapter follows the creation of a fictional neighbourhood site to demonstrate an aspect of Liferay portal with practical examples, screenshots, and step-by-step instructions. All you need in order to benefit from the Liferay Beginner's Guide is programming experience. No prior knowledge of Liferay is required, although experienced Liferay portal programmers who need to get up to speed with its latest features will also find this book useful.
Robert Chen
He started implementing Spring MVC portlets in Liferay 4.3.1 in Februray 2008. He has four years experience with Liferay portal technology. He has worked on 14 projects that use the Liferay portal framework. His positions have been Liferay developer, senior consultant and project architect. He is familiar with technologies used in Liferay including Hibernate, Spring, Ehcache, Struts, JSF, ICEfaces and Vaadin API. He has implemented web service and configured websites using the latest version of Liferay portal.
Sandeep Nair
He has been working in Liferay for more than two years. He has executed projects using Liferay in various domains like Construction, Financial and Medical fields providing solutions like Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management, and Web Content Management systems. He has created a free and open source Google Chartlet plugin for Liferay which has been downloaded and used by people across 90 countries as per sourceforge statistics.
Samir Bhatt
He has been working in Liferay for more than two years. He is currently leading Liferay practice at his organization. He worked as Liferay architect in more than seven projects. He is a certified Liferay trainer. He has been delivering public and private Liferay training all over the world. Overall he has around 11 years of experience in information technology industry.
Mahipalsinh Rana
His stint with portal server technologies started in 2006 when he started working with Sun Portal Server 7.2. Later Sun became technology partner of Liferay for development in 5.2.x and he was part of that team. He has looked after Internationalization (I18n) across various modules. For the last two years he has acted as Liferay Technical Architect and led around 10 projects. He has also enjoyed doing Liferay training from time to time being a certified trainer from Liferay. He likes exploring other technologies like Spring , REST API and Internationalization (I18n).
Gaurav Barot
He has been working on Liferay for nearly three years. He has executed Liferay projects in various domains like media, healthcare, insurance etc. He has been involved in the complete lifecycle of the project starting from requirement gathering to deployment. He has worked on various versions of Liferay from 5.x to 6.0 SP1. He is a certified trainer as well and has provided more than 10 successful private and public training sessions to 70+ trainees. He has six+ years of industrial experience. He is leading the Liferay Certification Program at his organization.
