Liferay

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Liferay
Developer(s) Liferay
Stable release 6.1 (6.1 GA2) / July 31, 2012 (2012-07-31)
Development status Active
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Enterprise portal, content management framework, content management system, community
License LGPL License [1] and proprietary[1]
Website http://www.liferay.com

Liferay Portal is a free and open source enterprise portal written in Java and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License[2] and proprietary licenses.[1] It is primarily used to power corporate intranets and extranets.[citation needed]

Liferay Portal allows users to set up features common to websites. It is fundamentally constructed of functional units called portlets.[3] Liferay is sometimes described as a content management framework or a web application framework. Liferay's support for plugins extends into multiple programming languages, including support for PHP and Ruby portlets.[4]

Although Liferay offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.

Liferay Portal is Java-based and runs on any computing platform capable of running the Java Runtime Environment and an application server. Liferay is available bundled with a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat.[5]

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[edit] History

Liferay, Inc., is a professional open-source company that provides free documentation and paid professional service to users of its software. Mainly focused on enterprise portal technology, the company has its headquarters in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Liferay was created in 2000 by chief software architect Brian Chan to provide an enterprise portal solution for non-profit organizations.[6] In 2004, the company was incorporated under the name Liferay, Inc., formalized its Germany subsidiary Liferay GmbH. In 2007, the company opened new Asian headquarters in Dalian, China, and the Spanish subsidiary Liferay SL. In March 2009, the company opened a new office in Bangalore, India.

The company's enterprise portal product has been acknowledged by several notable organizations. It was recognized by EContent magazine in its "EContent 100" list of industry leaders[7][8] and in 2007, InfoWorld named it a "Technology of the Year".[9] In July 2007, it announced a partnership with ICEsoft Technologies, provider of the ICEfaces library, for developing Ajax technology for its enterprise portal software.[10] In January 2008, the company hired the lead engineer for jQuery UI, to exclusively work full-time on the JavaScript library.[11] Gartner recognised Liferay as visionary leader in a September 2008 Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products.[12]

Sun Microsystems and Liferay signed a technology-sharing agreement during May 2008.[13] Sun Microsystems rebranded the offering GlassFish Web Space Server. ZDNet further describes the relationship in the May 2008 article Sun and Liferay launch web-presentation platform.[14] In 2010 Sun was acquired by Oracle[15] and the GlassFish Web Space Server was rebranded to Oracle GlassFish Server.

Liferay 6.1 was released in January 2012 and saw several improvements and new functionality including an improved document library, dynamic data lists and an app store.

[edit] Products

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Liferay Portal is a JSR-286 and enterprise portal which includes a suite of applications (e.g., Content Management System, blogs, instant messaging, message boards, etc.). It is distributed in two different editions:

  • Liferay Portal Community Edition — A version with the latest features and support through the active community.
  • Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition — A commercial offering that includes services including updates and full support. This release goes through additional quality assurance cycles and is usually available around 1 or 2 months after the Community Edition and comes under a non-free license.[16]

Liferay also provides a collaboration suite based on the Liferay platform:

  • Liferay Social Office — A social collaboration suite for enterprises.

[edit] Core portlets

Liferay comes with certain portlets preinstalled.[17] These comprise the core functionality of the portal system. They include:

  • Alerts and Announcements
  • Alfresco, Documentum, and other document library integration
  • Asset Publishing
  • Blogs and blog aggregation
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Calendar
  • Chat
  • Document and Image management
  • Document Library Manager, Recent Documents
  • Image Gallery
  • Knowledge Base
  • LDAP Integration
  • Mail
  • Message Boards
  • Nested Portlets
  • Page Ratings & Flags
  • Polls
  • Site Map
  • Site Navigation
  • Social Equity
  • Software Catalog
  • Tags and Categories
  • Themes, supporting Velocity and FreeMarker markup
  • User Directory
  • Web Content
  • Web Form Builder
  • WebDAV Integration
  • Website Tools
  • Wiki (supports Creole as well as MediaWiki syntax)

[edit] See also

Portal icon Free software portal

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Liferay 6.0 CE vs. EE licensing question". www.liferay.com. Retrieved 2012-01-04. 
  2. ^ "Liferay Adopting the LGPL License". www.liferay.com. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
  3. ^ "List of Liferay Portlets". www.liferay.com. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
  4. ^ "Liferay PHP Portlets". www.liferay.com. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
  5. ^ "Liferay Portal". www.liferay.com. Retrieved 2010-09-04. 
  6. ^ Howard, Phil (October 18, 2005). "Liferay after Plumtree: Pure play portals alive and kicking". Reg Developer. 
  7. ^ "Liferay Breaks Into EContent Magazine's "EContent 100" Of Industry Leaders". Business Wire. November 20, 2006. 
  8. ^ "2006 EContent 100 List". EContent Magazine. December 2006. 
  9. ^ "2007 Technology of the Year Awards: Applications". InfoWorld. January 1, 2007. 
  10. ^ "Liferay and ICEfaces Announce Ajax Portal Technology Partnership". August 3, 2007. 
  11. ^ Bakaus, Paul (January 23, 2008). "jQuery UI and beyond: The jQuery-Liferay partnership". 
  12. ^ Cheng, Alice (2009-09-29). "PRESS RELEASE: Liferay Named a Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant". www.liferay.com. Retrieved 2013-02-18. 
  13. ^ "Press Release: Sun Joins Liferay Open Source Community". May 2008. 
  14. ^ "Sun and Liferay launch web-presentation platform". May 2008. 
  15. ^ "Oracle buys Sun, becomes hardware company". January 27, 2010 6:55 AM PST. 
  16. ^ http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/4882318
  17. ^ "List of Core Liferay Portlets". 

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