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How to remove “/web/guest” in Liferay 6.1
21 Monday May 2012
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21 Monday May 2012
Posted in Liferay
I have shifted my blog to mygeekjourney.com, you can find the following blog post at:
Hi All
First of all, let me tell you what I am or my company is intended to do. We have already developed a project using Java, JSP and Servlet. We want it to integrate with Liferay so that we can change logo, css, images, themes or any other UI related component at run time using Liferay admin panel. But backend should be what we have developed. In short, UI of our project is controlled by Liferay but control of data displayed on UI or submitted from UI should be from our developed backend code.
Now I have a few questions regarding above said approach of fulfilling the requirement:-
1) What we are trying to do is possible?
2) Is this approach recommendable for what we intended to do?
3) Or do we need to develop our project from scratch to fit into Liferay? Like developing portlets and deploying in Liferay or other approach that has been given in Liferay documentation.
4) What about database integration? We have around 15 columns/fields in user table in database of our project which is completely different from that of Liferay’s user table.
Liferay is a very new for us. We have checked the documentation section of Liferay but still few things like above said requirements and its implementation is not clear. Also, we would like to know in what scenarios/requirements Liferay is useful.
Eagerly waiting for your views. Any help will be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Hi Nitesh,
Actually I am pretty new to Liferay as well. I have never tried to integrate Liferay with JSP and Servlet before, but my best bet is that if you are looking to retain portal UI functionalities like logo, css, themes and its drag and drop features between portlets, then you might need to develop it as portlet.
Question #2 and #3: Is this approach recommendable for what we intended to do? Or do we need to develop our project from scratch to fit into Liferay? Like developing portlets and deploying in Liferay or other approach that has been given in Liferay documentation.
Er no, this is not the proper approach in a portal environment. Yes, I am afraid that you might need to develop your project from stretch (best scenario) or alternative you can retain your servlet in your portlet and call it via ajax?
Question #4: What about database integration? We have around 15 columns/fields in user table in database of our project which is completely different from that of Liferay’s user table.
I believe you are able to add additional custom fields for Liferay’s User. You can link your existing database with Liferay users by obtaining their unique user id (Method: PortalUtil.getUser(request); user.getUserId();)
Hope it’s helps