Chapter 4. MVC the Liferay way
This chapter covers
- The MVC design pattern
- Liferay’s implementation of MVC: MVCPortlet
- Control panel portlets
- Liferay JSP patterns and objects, including ThemeDisplay
- Tag libraries such as the search container and AlloyUI Taglibs
- Internationalization in Liferay
- Liferay permissions
I hope you didn’t have a visceral reaction to the first three letters in the chapter title. If you did, I certainly can understand why. MVC (which stands for Model-View-Controller) is probably one of the most overused buzzwords (if you can call an abbreviation a buzzword) you’ll see. Framework after framework has been released, all claiming to implement MVC in one way or another. At the time of this writing, the Wikipedia article on MVC lists a total of 17 MVC frameworks for Java alone. They seem to keep multiplying like some kind of virus.