You are now aware of the Portal basics and Liferay Portal's Dockbar. Before we go ahead with the rest of the chapters of this book, it is important to understand the Portal Architecture of Liferay. When we use the term Portal Architecture, it includes the basic building blocks of the Liferay Portal and relationship between each block.
In this section, we will get an overview of the Liferay Portal Architecture. We will get familiar with different components and understand their role in Liferay. We will, however, discuss these components in detail in Chapter 5, Building Your First Liferay Site.
Let's start discussing this topic with a question! We have been talking about Portal since the beginning of this chapter. Whom do we build/develop a portal for? The answer can be content creators, bloggers, content approvers, certain type of admins, visitors, and so on. If we want to use only one word, collectively...