Liferay in Action

Chapter 7. Enabling user collaboration

This chapter covers

• Assets, and why they’re important
• Workflow-enabling your applications
• Empowering users to tag and categorize your data
• Integrating Liferay’s commenting and rating systems
• Custom SQL in Service Builder

Way back before the turn of the century (isn’t it cool to be able to say that?), I used to do development on a proprietary collaboration engine whose name you may recognize: Lotus Notes/Domino. In fact, I think it was due to that experience that I picked up my first Manning book, Domino Development with Java (Anthony Patton, 2000). I’ve been doing collaboration for a long time, and it’s amazing to think about what can happen in a decade’s time.

But back to my story. At that time, ...