Liferay Developer Best Practices for a Successful Deployment
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The document outlines best practices for Liferay development, emphasizing importance at three levels: architecture, design/development, and deployment/operations. Key practices include understanding client needs, utilizing expandos and custom SQL, and ensuring proper documentation and performance tuning during deployment. It also stresses the need for continuous learning and adaptation as Liferay evolves.
Liferay Developer Best Practices for a Successful Deployment
- 1. Liferay Developer Best Practices March 31 st 2011 Rivet Logic Corporation 1800 Alexander Bell Drive Suite 400 Reston, VA 20191 Ph: 703.955.3480 Fax: 703.234.7711 Presented By Alaaeldin El-Nattar Principal Architect Rivet Logic Corporation
- 2. Rivet Logic Overview Award-winning professional services focused on enabling: Collaboration and Community Platforms Enterprise and Web Content Management Next Generation Websites Using Leading Open Source Software Company Facts Founded 2005, Consistently Profitable, Employee-owned Headquartered in Reston, VA Regional Offices in Boston, New York City, LA Near-shore Development Center in Costa Rica 40+ Consultants Copyright © 2008. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 3. Rivet Logic and Liferay Certified Partner since 2006 Conduct all Public Training on East Coast USA Contributor (software, documentation, forums, training material) Host of first ever East Coast User Conference in 2009 20+ Liferay projects underway or completed Copyright © 2008. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 4. Best Practices What are best practices? “ A best practice is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive, or reward that is believed to be more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, process, etc. when applied to a particular condition or circumstance. ” – Wikipedia Why is it not easy to follow them? Why should we follow them? Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 5. Motivation Better maintenance Better flexibility Higher confidence A great differentiator Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 6. Liferay Best Practices Best practices at three levels Architecture Design/Development Deployment/Operations Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 7. Copyright © 2009. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. ARCHITECTURE
- 8. Architecture Best Practices Essentials Understanding Liferay’s architecture and roadmap Ability to map real life IA into Communities/Organizations Use what you have Organization hierarchies can be very useful Educate the client e.g. Control Panel is powerful but one must be told why Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 9. Architecture Best Practices Disciplines Do your best to understand the client’s business model Walk and talk like they do Terminology matters Be 100% transparent Be “Agile” Maintain a clear upgrade path Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 10. Copyright © 2009. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. DESIGN / DEVELOPMENT
- 11. Design/Development Best Practices Use Expandos for extending models where possible Quick apps can be written using the Liferay WCM and Expandos Think about the pros and cons Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. Note: This list is not in any particular order http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/blog/-/blogs/expandos-ii-refactor-of-a-previous-post-for-6-0
- 12. Design/Development Best Practices Don’t forget that you can use custom SQL in your plugins Consider caching if custom query is called often Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/4912728 http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Service+Builder+Finders
- 13. Design/Development Best Practices Portlet resource permissions in Plugin SDK Important for portlet flexibility Understand the three portlet permission levels Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/4887808
- 14. Design/Development Best Practices You can access Liferay services directly in velocity No need for custom velocity variables Helps when building WCM applications Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/4885934
- 15. Design/Development Best Practices Before you customize look at portal.properties Use hooks to override properties if you can If hooks don’t allow you to override a property use portal-ext.properties Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 16. Design/Development Best Practices Localization is made simple by Liferay Any database column can be localized Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/4857873 <column name="title" type="String" localized="true" />
- 17. Design/Development Best Practices Understand how Liferay counters work Look at com/liferay/counter/service.xml Override if necessary See counter-spring.xml Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/4850927 http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/4841385
- 18. Design/Development Best Practices Know when/how to share services between portlets Place service JAR in WEB-INF/lib of each plugin Allows for hot deployable plugins Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/4686465 http://www.liferay.com/web/juan.fernandez/blog/-/blogs/liferay-modules-communication
- 19. Design/Development Best Practices Know how to upgrade your portlets Use Liferay’s UpgradeProcess Use a hook plugin and an Upgrade class Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. http://www.liferay.com/web/ryan.park/blog/-/blogs/implementing-upgradingprocess-for-your-liferay-portlets!?_33_redirect=%2Fweb%2Fryan.park%2Fblog
- 20. Design/Development Best Practices Build your integration layers as services Use Service Builder Standardize development methodology Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 21. Design/Development Best Practices Understand the pros and cons of search/indexing options Solr vs Local Index Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-15006 http://svn.liferay.com/changelog/plugins?cs=71516
- 22. Copyright © 2009. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. DEPLOYMENT / OPERATIONS
- 23. Deployment/Ops Best Practices Document everything DEV vs QA vs PROD HINT: Use properties files per environment portal-dev.properties portal-qa.properties portal-prod.properties Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 24. Deployment/Ops Best Practices Deploy Liferay as a service Windows Tomcat can be installed as a service Unix Use init scripts Distro dependant Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 25. Deployment/Ops Best Practices Know how to do hardware sizing Ask the right questions How many concurrent users What are the real life use cases Translate use cases to Liferay functionality Map functionality to resource utilization File system Database Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. ?
- 26. Deployment/Ops Best Practices Performance tuning Profile the portal Tweak the JVM Have a scalability plan Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 27. Deployment/Ops Best Practices High-Availability deployment quirks Clustered cache is affected by underlying network HTTP session replication is usually overkill Educate the client Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. You can count on me
- 28. Summary Best practices span the entire software development lifecycle Try to keep up Liferay is always changing Always promote best practices Copyright © 2009. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
- 29. Q & A Copyright © 2010. Rivet Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.
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