User:Caorongjin/Liferay
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| Liferay | |
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| Developed by | Liferay, Inc |
| Latest release | 4.2.2 / April 2007 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Web Portal |
| License | MIT |
| Website | www.liferay.com |
Liferay is a J2EE-based, open source web portal originally designed for non-profit organizations.[1] It is now deployed by a full range of Fortune 500 companies.[2]
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[edit] History
Liferay was created in 2000 by Chief Software Architect Brian Chan as a portal solution for non-profit organizations.[1] It is now owned by Liferay, Inc, which provides free documentation and paid professional service to users of the software. The software is open sourced under the MIT license; many competing portals are also licensed under open source and other free licenses, though some are commercial solutions. The MIT license allows users to modify and redistribute the code free of charge, and there is an active community of users and developers on the Liferay message boards and wiki.[3]
One of the major installations of the software is at Goodwill Industries, where the non-profit organization wanted to rebuild its intranet site with a portal solution to replace its aging environment. The environment needed to facilitate collaborate exchange between various groups worldwide as well as provide a platform for computer-based training. Comparing against such closed-source portals as Plumtree and IBM Websphere, Goodwill decided to use Liferay as the solution of choice to support up to 100,000 users.[4][5]
[edit] Features and reviews
Liferay is avaliable in professional and enterprise editions, and is very flexible in its installation. It is indiscriminate in the choice of servlet container, application server middleware, or database; Liferay can run on top of most major vendors, including Tomcat to BEA, MySQL to Oracle. Since it is Java-based, Liferay can run on Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X.
The portal software is standards-compliant supporting the JSR-168 portlet specification. It also includes a Content Management System (CMS) called Liferay Journal with a JSR-170-compliant document library.
Additional features of the software include:
- 60+ prebundled portlets (e.g. Journal CMS, Message Boards, Wiki, Chat, Mail, Workflow, etc.)
- 20+ community-contributed themes
- Web 2.0 user interface
- I18n Internationalization (bundled language kits include Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Vietnamese, etc.)
- Asynchronous portlet rendering and page caching
- Fine-grained permissions
- WSRP
- Single sign-on and LDAP support
- Eclipse plugin
- Dynamic virtual hosting
- Multi-tier clustering
- Distributed Caching
In a test of the product, eWeek labs noted desktop-like functionality in the interface and flexibility in customization but found very little to complain about, comparing it to other similar packages as Exo Platform and Magnollia.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Howard, Phil. "Liferay after Plumtree: Pure play portals alive and kicking", Reg Developer, October 18, 2005.
- ^ Asay, Matt (December 14, 2006). Liferay open source portal turns 4.2. Infoworld.
- ^ a b Rapoza, Jim (October 31, 2005). eWeek Labs Review. eWeek.
- ^ Gasperson, Tina. "Goodwill is good with open source portal Liferay", Linux.com, September 13, 2006.
- ^ Cohen, Todd. "Goodwill launches open-source intranet", Philanthropy Journal, September 22, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Official Liferay website, demo, and code repository
- Babcock, Charles. "Symantec Steps Deeper Inside The Data Center With Performance Monitoring", Infoworld, January 23, 2007.
- 2007 Technology of the Year Awards: Applications. Infoworld.
- Asay, Matt (December 14, 2006). Liferay open source portal turns 4.2. Infoworld.
- International Association of Software Architects (December 6, 2006). "The International Association of Software Architects unveils a new website". Press release.
- "Liferay brings new services to HanseMerkur", Computer Business Review Online, November 17, 2006.
- "Employers Direct leverage Liferay technology for online services", Computer Business Review Online, November 3, 2006.
- Cohen, Todd. "Goodwill launches open-source intranet", Philanthropy Journal, September 22, 2006.
- Gasperson, Tina. "Goodwill is good with open source portal Liferay", Linux.com, September 13, 2006.
- Heck, Mike (May 05, 2006). Jboss and Liferay provide open portals to SOA. Infoworld.
- Rapoza, Jim (October 31, 2005). eWeek Labs Review. eWeek.
- Howard, Phil. "Liferay after Plumtree: Pure play portals alive and kicking", Reg Developer, October 18, 2005.
