Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices -- Table of Contents -- Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Architectural Best Practices -- The Liferay Portal reference architecture -- The Presentation tier -- The Networking tier -- The Web tier -- The Application tier -- The Database Repository tier -- The Search Repository tier -- The Media Repository tier -- The Active Directory tier -- Reference architecture characteristics -- Scalability -- Performance -- High availability and fault tolerance -- Security -- The Deployment sizing approach -- The reference hardware -- The performance benchmark test summary -- An example of sizing calculations -- Sample performance requirements -- Sizing calculations -- The Documents and Media Library architecture -- File System and Advanced File System stores -- The Database store -- The JCR store -- The CMIS store -- The S3 store -- The database architecture -- The read/write database -- Database sharding -- Static content delivery -- Content Delivery Network -- Content delivery through the web server -- The caching architecture -- Caching using Ehcache -- Ehcache replication using RMI -- Ehcache replication using Cluster Link -- Caching using Terracotta -- Web resource caching using Varnish -- The search architecture -- Apache Lucene -- Index storage on SAN -- Lucene Index replication using Cluster Link -- Apache Solr -- Summary -- 2. Load Balancing and Clustering Best Practices -- The basics of load balancing and clustering with Liferay.

Setting up Liferay Portal nodes -- Software load balancer configuration using the Apache Web Server -- Load balancer configuration using mod_jk -- Load balancer configuration using mod_proxy_ajp -- Load balancer configuration using mod_proxy_http -- Load balancing best practices -- Liferay Portal cluster configuration -- Session replication configuration -- Cache replication -- Ehcache replication using RMI -- Ehcache configuration using JGroups -- Ehcache replication using Cluster Links -- Ehcache clustering best practices -- Media Library configuration -- Network file storage using the Advanced File System store -- Database storage using the JCR store -- Database storage using DBStore -- Media Library clustering best practices -- Search engine configuration -- Lucene index storage on network storage -- Lucene index replication using Cluster Link -- Using the Apache Solr search engine -- Clustering best practices for the search engine -- Quartz scheduler configuration -- Summary -- 3. Configuration Best Practices -- Liferay Portal configuration best practices -- Servlet filter configuration -- The auto login filter -- The CAS filter -- The NTLM SSO filter -- The OpenSSO filter -- The SharePoint filter -- The GZip filter -- The Strip filter -- The ValidHtml filter -- Auto login hooks -- Counter increment -- User session tracker -- Direct Servlet Context -- Plugin repositories -- Pingbacks and trackbacks -- Google's blog search ping integration -- The asset view counter -- Document ranks and view count -- Scheduler configuration -- The Calendar portlet -- LDAP integration -- The Web Content portlet -- The Message Board portlet -- The Blogs portlet -- The Media Library portlet -- The Announcement portlet -- Inline permission checks -- Lucene Configuration -- Application Server configuration best practices -- Database connection pool configuration.

JVM configuration -- Garbage Collection -- The Java Heap configuration -- JSP engine configuration -- Thread pool configuration -- Apache Web Server configuration best practices -- Static content delivery -- GZip compression configuration -- Cache header configuration -- Apache Web Server MPM configuration -- Summary -- 4. Caching Best Practices -- Customizing the Ehcache configuration -- Hibernate Ehcache CacheManager -- Single-VM CacheManager -- Multi-VM CacheManager -- Ehcache configuration best practices -- Caching using Terracotta -- Summary -- 5. Development Best Practices -- UI best practices -- Reducing the number of JavaScript files -- Reducing the number of CSS files -- Using CSS image sprites -- Minifying JavaScript files -- JavaScript positioning -- Limiting the use of DOM operations -- Analyzing web page performance using tools -- Portlet development best practices -- Limiting the use of dynamic queries -- Liferay caching API -- Coding best practices -- Summary -- 6. Load Testing and Performance Tuning -- Getting ready for load testing -- Capturing load testing requirements -- Selecting load testing tools -- Apache JMeter -- BlazeMeter -- Apache Benchmark (ab) -- Preparing load testing scripts -- Setting up the load testing environment -- Conducting load tests -- Resource monitoring and performance tuning -- Liferay Portal server - monitoring and tuning -- JConsole -- VisualVM -- JVM - monitoring and tuning -- Tomcat thread - monitoring and tuning -- Database connection pool - monitoring and tuning -- Cache - monitoring and tuning -- Apache web server - monitoring and tuning -- Monitoring the database server -- CPU and memory usage -- Slow queries -- Connections -- Lock monitoring -- Monitoring logfiles -- Summary -- Index.