Developers are responsible for creating custom portlets based on business requirements. Participants will learn how to create custom plugins that can create, update and delete records from the database as well as implement permissions for their portlet. We'll also cover how to extend Liferay's core portlets and how to customize the portal.

For development we will setup Tomcat on Eclipse and use MySQL for the database. Although Liferay can be used with any application server and database, the above setup is the fastest in terms of development. We may also touch upon installation with other application servers and databases as well.