Liferay DevCon 2014: Lliferay Platform - A new and exciting vision
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Jorge Ferrer discusses Liferay's innovative vision focused on mobile and backend development, emphasizing the importance of reusable services and modularity. He highlights the need for a flexible platform that supports modern app development techniques and architectures, allowing developers to leverage a variety of tools and frameworks. The presentation encourages early involvement in new Liferay features and tools to enhance productivity and application extensibility.
Liferay DevCon 2014: Lliferay Platform - A new and exciting vision
- 1. Liferay Platform A new and exciting vision Jorge Ferrer Vice President Engineering
- 3. Liferay's goal is not be well positioned but to add value?
- 4. How can a portal platform provide the most value today? And in the future?
- 5. A year of great innovation for Liferay
- 6. Three trends for a new vision
- 7. Image Credit & Copyright: Brandon Goforth 1Mobile development has been a hurricane of innovation
- 8. When was the last time you did this? By tuttletree @flickr
- 9. How are these apps By pedromourapinheiro @flickr being built?
- 11. How about the backend?
- 12. Hmm, anyone knows Java? Ruby on Rails? Django?
- 13. Don't let the backend be an after thought!
- 14. Developing the backend of a mobile App from scratch is rarely a good option
- 15. Do you really want to implement user management once again?
- 16. How about... ? File storage Localized content Social Meta-Data Search Relationships Authentication Workflow Comments Tagging Categorization
- 17. Liferay offers many reusable services for building Apps μ μ μ μ Reusable Services Identity User Management Permissions Content Management Document Management Dynamic Forms ...
- 18. Some of you are already doing this Forums App Blog reader Blogs, Agenda, Content
- 19. But it requires knowing Liferay really well... Right?
- 20. Liferay Screens Create Native Apps backed by Liferay in a fraction of the time Screen UI Screen Local
- 21. How long does it take to build an App? (Including the backend)
- 22. How about 1 minute?
- 23. Characteristics ✓Fully functional Screenlets backed by a Liferay server ✓100% themable ✓Compatible with iOS/ Android SDKs ✓Open Source Juan JM
- 24. That's much better. Just for Mobile Phones? #LRNAS2014
- 26. Image credits: control4.com Will be a $300 billion market by 2020
- 28. The Web is a better platform than ever before 2
- 29. Much better browsers.... ... for desktop & mobile
- 30. The JavaScript revolution New Standards, Frameworks and techniques SPA
- 31. New frontend development workflow Multi-browser test automation Resource Optimization Fast dev environment (watch) Zeno
- 32. How can we leverage this within Liferay?
- 34. Portlets are great.... as widgets Site Admin ✓ I can add portlets whenever I want Frontend Developer x So many limitations
- 35. Full Page Apps within a Liferay Site I own the page! I'm free!
- 36. Standalone Apps backed by Liferay
- 37. Independent Web Apps leveraging Liferay Angular JS Application Intranet for persons with disabilities
- 38. Supporting Standalone Apps Liferay Core JS Remote APIs HTTP 2.0 Web Sockets Reusable services SSO • Theming • Permissions Local APIs Native mobile OS UI Mobile Device Wearable, IoT Native App Mobile SDK Client Eduardo
- 39. And developers got all the freedom back :)
- 40. To use any frontend tool v4 to be based on jQuery Web Components
- 41. "Real Time" Applications Server Push & Async Requests Updates + Servlet 3.1 Igor Iliyan
- 42. These new ways of leveraging Liferay demand an even better platform
- 43. Fine grained Modularity and Extensibility Author: Mike Richard / Source: vagabondish.com 3
- 44. Goal 1 Use just the pieces of Liferay you really need
- 45. Maintainable & Scalable Breaking down the monolith Author: Mike Richard / Source: vagabondish.com
- 46. Modular Platform Breaking the platform and reusable services into OSGi modules yields many benefits F Only deploy needed modules. B Uses standard OSGi extension points. New! A Dependencies are declared. Scale indiv. C modules separately. D True hot deployment. Blogs μ μ μ μ E μservices
- 47. Dependency Management MANIFEST Import-Package: com.liferay.polls, com.liferay.blogs, com.liferay.users Export-Package: com.liferay.messageboards Can be autogenerated with bnd Fixes the class loading hell in a very elegant way Miguel Ray
- 48. Goal 2 Extensibility built to last
- 49. OSGi Extensions Instead of auto.login.hooks=com.liferay.samples.MyAutoLogin Use an annotation @Component public class MyAutoLogin implements AutoLogin { ... } Using OSGi Declarative Services
- 50. Make any custom class extensible @Component public class MyMenuClass { ... @Reference public void setMenuRenderer(MenuRenderer mr) { _menuRenderer = mr; } } Using OSGi Declarative Services
- 51. Make any custom class extensible @Component public class MyMenuClass { ... @Reference( cardinality = ReferenceCardinality.MULTIPLE, policy = ReferencePolicy.DYNAMIC, ... ) public void addMenuItem(MenuItem mi) { _menuItems.add(mi); } } Using OSGi Declarative Services
- 52. @Component public class MyMenuItem implements MenuItem { ... } Make any custom class extensible
- 53. Audience Targeting A great example 1 App made of 30+ modules Highly Extensible Julio Eduardo Eudaldo
- 54. Better ways to develop UI Extensions Granularity + Maintainability No more need for JSP overrides! Carlos
- 55. Big focus on APIs and efficient protocols
- 56. Semantic Versioning Version each module independently Standard to differentiate breaking changes Automatic compatibility checks semver.org ✓Dependencies on specific modules and versions, not a big Liferay version
- 57. Goal 3 Work less, do more
- 58. Autogenerated conf UI Strongly Typed You can even define custom types
- 60. Autogenerated conf UI 1. Injected in your service @Activate protected void activate(AmazonRankingsConfiguration conf) { String rankingsId = conf.amazonRankingsId(); ... } 2. Fully dynamic Change the configuration at any time Draft API Ray
- 61. State of the art dev tooling Embrace and contribute to best of breed applications instead of building our own +
- 62. It's a exciting time to be a Liferay Developer
- 63. You can reuse your knowledge to do more than ever before
- 64. Mobile Apps/IoT Native, Hybrid, Web, ... Amazing sites & portals Which keep getting better Innovative Web Apps With any technology Liferay Platform More modular and extensible
- 65. The Liferay Way Open Source Following Standards Using state-of-the-art tools
- 66. Don't stand still while so many new things are happening
- 67. Get involved early Develop Apps with Screens Use the new dev tools Try out the Liferay 7 milestones
- 68. Look for these guys! Zeno Bruno Miguel Carlos Eduardo Ray JM Juan Julio Eduardo Eudaldo
- 70. Don't forget to vote!