Robert Chen - Liferay Beginners Guide

Robert Chen is an Architect for Liferay Portal projects. He was a computer game developer and a software testing engineer. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from California State University, San Bernardino. His focus was on online banking applications. He also has a bachelor's degree from Wuhan University, China. Mr. Chen was a QA engineer at VMware, Inc. He later led a team in developing four educational computer games for a Florida school district. He worked on Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Mr. Chen has rich experience in J2EE technologies. He has extensive experience in Content Management Systems (CMS) including Alfreso. He is an expert in web portal technologies. Mr. Chen has hands-on experience in 10 Liferay Portal projects.

I would sincerely thank Sarah Cullington (Acquisition Editor), Zainab Bagasrawala (Project Coordinator), Shreerang Deshpande (Development Editor) at Packt Publishing. Thank you for reviewing my chapters. I appreciate your invaluable advice it has helped me improve the quality of my writing. Thanks also go to Eleanor Duffy, Lata Basantani, and the team at Packt Publishing. It has been a happy experience working together with you! I would also thank Dr. Munwar Shariff and Dr. Jonas X. Yuan for their support and encouragement along the way.

Gaurav Barot has worked on Enterprise-level portal development projects in various domains such as media, healthcare, and insurance. He has been working on Liferay for more than three years now. Apart from being involved in full lifecycle of portal development projects, he is also a Certified Liferay Trainer and provides Liferay Trainings worldwide. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering in Information Technologies and Post Graduate Diploma in Network Computing. He has more than six years of industrial experience.

Gaurav is working as a Senior Consultant with CIGNEX Datamatics, a global leader in open source technologies.

I would like to thank all my team members at CIGNEX for making this book a reality. I am also very thankful to Munwar Shariff CTO, CIGNEX Datamatics and Manish Sheladia Co-founder and Chief Delivery Officer, CIGNEX Datamatics to provide an opportunity to write this book. I sincerely thank and appreciate the entire team at Packt Publishing for providing continuous support during this project. Last but not the least, I would like to thank my parents and my two younger sisters Kinjal and Yogini for their love and encouragement. A special thanks to my wife Kruti and my lovely daughter Twisha both of them have been very tolerant and understanding during all the time that I've spent on the computer while working on the book.

Samir Bhatt Samir Bhatt has been working on Liferay for more than two years and is a Liferay certified trainer. He is leading Liferay practice at CIGNEX Datamatics. He is also part of architects panel at CIGNEX Datamatics. He has worked as a Liferay Architect in more than 10 projects. He has conducted many Liferay trainings across the globe. Samir has more than 11 years of IT experience. He delivered solutions in various business domains including telecommunication, retail, healthcare, and media. He has also worked on many other technologies including Pentaho BI, Oracle, Java Swing, ICEfaces, and Visual Basic.

I would like to specially thank Munwar Sharif (CTO, CIGNEX Datamatics) and Manish Sheladia (Chief Delivery Officer, CIGNEX Datamatics) for encouraging me to write this book. I appreciate the whole Packt Publishing team for providing continuous support throughout this project. Lastly, I want to thank my parents for their encouragement. I specially thank my wife Hetal and my little daughter Shreeya for their support and love.

Sandeep Nair has been working on Liferay for more than two years and has overall more than five years of experience in Java and Java EE technologies. He has executed projects using Liferay in various domains such as Construction, Financial, and Medical fields providing solutions such as Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management systems. He has created a free and open source Google Chartlet plugin for Liferay which has been downloaded and used by people across 90 countries as per Sourceforge statistics. Besides development, consulting, and implementing solutions, he has also been involved in giving trainings in Liferay in other countries. Before he jumped into Liferay, he has had experience in Java and Java EE platforms and had worked in EJB, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Servicemix. He also has experience in using JitterBit, which is an ETL tool. When he is not coding, he loves to read books and write blogs.

I would like to thank Munwar Shariff and Manish Sheladia who trusted in me and thought me worthy enough to write this book. I would like to thank Robert Chen for being so supportive from the beginning of the book and leading the team that too very efficiently. I would also like to thank rest of the co-authors Samir Bhatt, Mahipalsinh Rana, and Gaurav Barot, who were there to review and discuss each other's work and make sure we give quality book to the readers. I am also very grateful to Zainab Bagasrawala, who took the pains to co-ordinate the chapters and making sure we deliver the chapter in time, Sarah Cullington and Shreerang Deshpande for reviewing my work and giving right advice as to what should or should not be there in the book. Last but not the least, I would like to thank my parents and my brother for supporting me.