Liferay in a minute

                            Liferay in a Minute

  • Liferay Portal is an open source project.
  • Liferay is a company too that provides training, documentation, consulting services.
  • Liferay portal was first developed in the year 2000 by a young developer Brian Chan.
  • Liferay portal has two flavors. One is community edition (i.e.,  CE)  and another is enterprise edition (i.e., EE )
  • Liferay Community Edition is free of cost.
  • Liferay Enterprise Edition is not free. We need to purchase license

Liferay Features

userpersonolization Simplified UI Development

Liferay Portal simplifies the development of internal, external, and channel websites–notably those that allow users to login for personalized services or views and those that require a workflow approval process to update content and integrate or aggregate multiple existing services. Liferay Portal provides a single presentation layer for integrating all enterprise systems into a single easy to use interface for end users.

  flexible Flexible Enterprise Integration 
        Framework

Liferay Portal is a central presentation layer platform that allows users, administrators and developers to integrate content and services from backend or legacy applications. Liferay supports multiple methods to integrate, including SOAP, REST, RSS, as well as proprietary API’s.

 tools Out-of-the-box Tools

Liferay Portal provides more out of the box portlets than any other portal on the market—Choose from over 60 to customize your work environment. Included are Liferay CMS and Liferay Collaboration offering web publishing, content management, collaboration and social networking.

 ssoSecure Single Sign On (SSO)

Aggregate and access your content and applications in one place. Liferay Portal can pull all of your different systems together and make them available by logging in just once via the secure SSO.

customfield Custom Fields

Administrators can customize, edit, add, and change user attributes (name, company, date, or any other information that needs to be tracked or logged by your system) directly from Liferay, without needing to modify their database.

Liferay 6 extends this support to Pages, Web Content, Blogs Entries, Documents and its folders, images and its folders, bookmarks and its folders, forum messages, calendar events and wiki pages.

Liferay also offers a framework so that developers can leverage this functionality in their custom portlets to support custom fields for their own entities.

rulesengine Rules Engine Integration

Advanced personalization via Drools allows for “contextual personalization”, the specification of content, functionality, and features based on a user’s location, activities, and their other self-defined profile attributes.

usergroupsUser Groups, Organizations and Sites

Liferay users can be intuitively grouped into a hierarchy of “organizations” or cross-organizational “user groups,” providing flexibility and ease of administration.

For example, members of different geographies such as Americas and EMEA can be grouped into organizations, whereas project based or departmental teams such as a “Website redesign” that cross disciplines can be created as user groups. Liferay provides support for “sites” where both organizations and user groups can be added to a separate web property with its own set of pages, content management system, shared calendar, and authorizations. A user can belong to multiple sites and easily navigate between them.

 soaSOA Framework

Liferay Portal is developed using an open SOA strategy that makes it the choice of enterprises worldwide for enterprise application integration. Integrate your existing HR, Accounting or Sales systems and any other sources of important data.

 simplifiedUIUser Personalization

Depending on what an administrator allows, users can personalize portal pages by adding, removing, positioning content or portlet attributes (e.g., zip code for weather portlet). These pages can be made public (published as a website with a unique friendly URL) or kept private.

 rolebaseddeliveryRole Based Content Delivery

Portals allow multiple user types to access a single URL and access a unique page view depending on the users role, group, organization or personal preferences. Administrator controlled and user customized, Liferay Portal provides a central platform for determining enterprise content policy, including who can edit and publish content, files, communities, files and applications.

singleclickSingle-Click Configuration

A fast, responsive interface makes Liferay Portal extremely easy and enjoyable to use for everyone in your organization. Typically time-consuming tasks such as altering a page layout, adding new applications and content, and changing look and feel can all be done in a couple of clicks without ever refreshing the page.

 dragdropDynamic Drag & Drop

Liferay Portal was the first portal to offer this feature, allowing users to move different elements around in the portal by simply dragging and dropping them into place.

workflowWorkflow Framework

Liferay Portal allows you to incorporate workflow into any of your own custom portlets by leveraging Liferay’s workflow APIs. This provides a better end user experience; saves your development team a lot of effort by reusing Liferay’s workflow administration tools; and provides seamless integration with all supported workflow engines.

 userdrivenUser-Driven Workflow & Approval

Not only is there embedded workflow for content, Liferay Portal allows users to create their own workflow and define the number of approval paths based on their own unique business requirements and operational needs.

For example, administrators can now implement an approval process for new document uploads before they appear in the Document Library

auditingAuditing & Performance Monitoring

To help administrators monitor the portal’s performance and better optimize resources, Liferay Portal gives administrators access to key performance statistics (hits/page, avg time/hit, max time per request, and more) for all portlets and portal pages. Meanwhile, our Portal Auditing feature allows administrators to track and manage user activity within the portal.

working-from-desktopWorking from Your Desktop with Liferay
           Sync

Working on both the Liferay Portal and your desktop becomes a seamless experience with Liferay Sync. Liferay Sync automatically syncs files from the document library to your local desktop. Changes from local files update automatically in the remote Document Library.

search-taggingSearch & Tagging

Tag web content, documents, message board threads and more to dynamically share important or interesting content with other portal users.

Users can then search for relevant information through faceted search, allowing one to filter results by specific criteria within specific portlets, communities, the entire portal and even external integrated applications.

maulti-language-supportMulti-language Support

International or multi-lingual organizations get out of the box support for 30+ languages. Users can toggle between different language settings with just one click. You can also easily add other languages.

open-social OpenSocial

Support for OpenSocial 1.1 creates new avenues for developers to add social capabilities and dimensions in their websites. With OpenSocial, users can manage and deploy web-based social applications built from gadgets directly to pages and sites.

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