Liferay

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 was founded in 2000 by Brian Chan and currently has its headquarters in Los Angeles, CA.

History

Liferay was created in 2000 by Chief Software Architect Brian Chan to provide a enterprise portal solution for non-profit organizations.^[1] In 2006, the company was incorporated under the name Liferay, Inc., formalized its Germany subsidiary Liferay GmbH and named as its new CEO Bryan Cheung, the company's former Director of Business Development.

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 ^[2]^[3] and in 2007, InfoWorld named it a "Technology of the Year."^[4] In July 2007, they announced a partnership with ICEsoft Technologies for developing AJAX technology for their enterprise portal software ^[5].

Products

Liferay currently has three main products:

Liferay Portal - JSR-168 enterprise portal platform
Liferay Journal - Content Management System
Liferay Collaboration Suite - Collaboration software (blogs, instant messaging, message boards, etc.)

Technical Specs

Liferay portal supports all major app servers, databases, and operating systems with over 700 deployment configurations. Liferay portal supports I18N for any language out-of-the-box and ships with default translations for 22 languages.

Arabic
Catalan (Spain)
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Czech
Dutch
English (US)
Finnish
French
German
Greek

Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Persian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Vietnamese

Additional languages can be added very easily.

Technologies Used:	Standards:
Apache ServiceMix ehcache Hibernate Java J2EE/JEE jBPM ICEfaces jQuery JavaScript Framework Lucene MuleSource ESB PHP Ruby Seam Spring & AOP Struts & Tiles Tapestry Velocity	AJAX and JSON iCalendar and Microformat JSR-168 JSR-127 JSR-170 Seats on the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) and JSF-314 (JSF 2.0) committees OpenSearch Web Services Open platform with support for Hessian, Burlap, REST, RMI, WSRP, WebDAV, etc.

References

^ Howard, Phil (October 18, 2005). "Liferay after Plumtree: Pure play portals alive and kicking". Reg Developer.
^ "Liferay Breaks Into EContent Magazine's "EContent 100" Of Industry Leaders". November 20, 2006.
^ "2006 EContent 100 List". EContent Magazine. December 2006.
^ "2007 Technology of the Year Awards: Applications". InfoWorld. January 1, 2007.
^ "Liferay and ICEfaces Announce Ajax Portal Technology Partnership". August 3, 2007.

External links

http://www.liferay.com/
Babcock, Charles (January 23, 2007). "Symantec Steps Deeper Inside The Data Center With Performance Monitoring". InformationWeek.
Gasperson, Tina (September 13, 2006). "Goodwill is good with open source portal Liferay". Linux.com.
Heck, Mike (May 05, 2006). "Jboss and Liferay provide open portals to SOA". InfoWorld. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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[1] Howard, Phil (October 18, 2005). "Liferay after Plumtree: Pure play portals alive and kicking". Reg Developer.

[2] "Liferay Breaks Into EContent Magazine's "EContent 100" Of Industry Leaders". November 20, 2006.

[3] "2006 EContent 100 List". EContent Magazine. December 2006.

[4] "2007 Technology of the Year Awards: Applications". InfoWorld. January 1, 2007.

[5] "Liferay and ICEfaces Announce Ajax Portal Technology Partnership". August 3, 2007.

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