chapter four

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.

4.1. Using Model-View-Controller

4.2. Configuring the portlet project

4.3. Creating a form with AlloyUI taglibs

4.4. Generating different field types with AlloyUI taglibs

4.5. Using Liferay’s MVC makes your portlets simpler

4.6. Summary