Using Liferay Service Bus for communication between portlets

The message bus is a mechanism for sending messages to different components in Liferay. This approach is very common, because it prevents class-loading issues. It is very important, because Liferay is a portlet container, and each portlet doesn't have information about the others. For that reason, Liferay provides a message bus that allows communication between portlets. An application that sends an event/message is called a producer, and an application that receives messages is called a consumer.

The message bus architecture supports asynchronous and synchronous messaging. Synchronous messages wait for a response, and asynchronous messages send a message, forget it, or receive a callback. The main difference between synchronous and asynchronous messages is the fact that the first one block threads and wait for the response.

In this recipe, we will show you how to use a message bus in a real example. Let's assume that...