Liferay is very well known as a good platform for building portals. It provides a nice combination of out of the box features, extensibility and application development options to build almost any website, portal or complex application without starting from scratch every time. But is that all it can do? For a few years the development world has been focusing more and more on developing for mobile and tablets, glasses and TVs or even provide public web APIs for any developers to build on top of a company’s services and content. And we have noticed “There isn’t a Liferay for those developers!”, most of that type development is started from scratch, “What if Liferay filled that gap?” During this talk we will show how the most recent developments of the Liferay team are building a more versatile and modular platform than ever, an environment to leverage the most modern frontend development tools for enterprise needs, a set of tools to build mobile apps (for any device) with a powerful backend in a tenth of the time it typically takes. And all of it Open Source and fully standards based.

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?

10. Image credits: myshadesofgray.wordpress.com

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

25. By nepaltibet2005 @flickr

26. Image credits: control4.com
Will be a $300 billion market by 2020

27. #LRNAS2014
Perfect!
Bruno

28. The Web is a better
platform than ever
before
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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?

33. Think beyond Portlets...

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
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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

59. Autogenerated conf UI

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

69. Enjoy
Thanks!
@jorgeferrer

70. Don't forget to vote!