subject: Overview Of Liferay Portal [print this page] Liferay Portal is free and open source enterprise web platform written in Java and thus it is used for Liferay development or Liferay portal development which develops business solutions that provideinstant results and long-term values. It is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. It is made of functional units called portlets. It has built in Content Management System and Collaboration Suite. It is JSR 168 and JSR 386 compliant. Liferay is sometimes described as web application or content management framework. It has hot deployable theme/portlet architecture with online software catalog. It runs on all major application servers, operating systems, databases and is available on MIT-License.
Liferay portal development is opted as it is a leading open source portal platform providing a joined web interface to the data and tools spread across many sources.It is used to power corporate intranets and extranets. Liferay is the independent portal vendor in the market without a stack agenda, which allows Liferay to make technology decisions based on the benefit of customers, not the increase of revenue for other product lines. Liferay portal allows users to set up the features common to websites. Liferays support for plugins expands into multiple programming languages containing support for Ruby portlets and PHP. Liferay offers a difficult programming interface for developers; no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.
Liferay Portal is based on Java and runs on any computing platform that is capable of running the Java Runtime Environment and an application server. Liferay is available bundled with servlet container like Apache Tomcat. A company should provide software programming services & web design services that contains Liferay portal design developed by expert Liferay Developers. Programmers should configure the Liferay Portal framework using available tools to fulfill client requirements. A company should also provide Liferay Configuration, Liferay Integration and Liferay Portlet development. The Portal architecture of Liferay has been built around users, roles, communities, pages, organizations and portlet that allows user to build flexible yet robust collaborative portal.
Liferay provides solution that works today and is flexible enough to drive future strategic growth.
Simpler than WebSphere:
Deploy Liferay in a week to get a full solution for portals, content and collaboration for less than the cost of a single WebSphere CPU.
More flexible than SharePoint:
Unlike SharePoint, Liferay runs in non-Microsoft environments, is easy to customize, and integrates with your existing applications.
Liferay Expertise:
Login and User Management
Security and Access Rights Management
Alfresco & Liferay integration.
Workflow Management
eCommerce Tools (Shopping Carts)
Lucene Search Engine
Secure Single Sign On implementation
CMS Engine and Template Management
Custom Portlet Development (Struts and JSF Portlets)
