subject: A Low Cost Alternative To Java Enterprise With Liferay Integration [print this page] Liferay is an open source portal provider and also used for social networking as well as web publishing. Now it has announced a new partnership with Mulesoft which makes open source Mule ESB and Mule Soft TCat Server which is value-added distribution of Apache Tomcat. Now Liferay offers a bundle for Liferay Potal Enterprise Edition with TCat Server that is pre-installed in it and most importantly it offers end-to-end support. Liferay is an attractive, flexible, light weight, and a middleware platform that can be used as an alternative to expensive enterprise solutions.
By integration of both people opt for offshore Liferay development, Liferay theme development and Liferay portlets too. Let's see in this article how it is low cost by adding Mulesoft with Liferay.
It's over a decade now that we have Liferay reporting more than 4 million of downloads and quarter a million of its deployments. It started purely as a portal but gradually by increasing features and moving the product it is now a platform used for developing applications and websites at affordable prices.
Offshore Liferay Development has become a wise choice for many users as they can also deploy Liferay to any Java web container like IBM WebSphere or Jboss but combining with Tomcat is the most cost-effective web content delivery option found. Also it's found out that if customers are deploying Liferay to Tomcat then they save up to 93% compared to other platforms like IBM and Oracle. Wow! Isn't this fantastic option to choose?
Liferay steps further with its partnership with Mulesoft by getting bundles of new versions of Liferay's pre-installed Portal EE in combination with Apache Tomcat. What is Apache Tomcat? This may be the question immediately floating in your mind also initially when appeared first in this article. Well Apache's Tomcat is one of the most popular Java web containers as discussed above but being an open source it also has some shortcomings like no monitoring, no admin dashboard, and raw configuration files - features that are available in most of the strategic containers of Java EE. Mulesoft bridges the gap that previously existed by layering monitoring performance, diagnostics, application deployment and role-based security on top of pure Apache Tomcat binaries with no changes to be made in core code.
Liferay also supports this bundle by Mulesoft which will prove attractive for customers specially for those who are exhausted by trying to figure out exactly which layer of the technology stack does the problem occurs. Those technology professionals employing the solutions are allowed to call one company for getting answers.
Does this mean anything to you? If you are also thinking to make a move by option from a big Java EE vendor to a more viable and cost effective open source alternative to Jboss then you have a plus point here and that is a Portal. You get it free so Interested? Then move ahead.
