Liferay - Open Source Web Portal Development Platform

Liferay is idle platform for open Source Web Portal Development and Solution. Liferay delivers open source enterprise solutions for portals, publishing, content, and collaboration. Take a look over Liferay Portal from this blog.

What is Liferay Portal?

• Liferay Portal is the open source Java based web portal platform for making good commercial result that helps to have an effect for a long time in the future value.
• It was declared as an open source in the year 2001.
• Nowadays, Liferay Portal is very popular in terms of open source portal usage.
• Liferay Portal has more than 4 million boot up in its lifetime.
• Liferay Portal still active to make new engagement with external tools such like Alloy Faces, Prime Faces etc.
• Liferay Portal allows to getting involved actively in contribution for making of Liferay Portal via Liferay Community Users.

Overview of Liferay Portal

• Organizations globally have been using Liferay Open Source Portal because of latest functionalities, engagement with third party tools, acceptable with most application servers and database flavor.
• Liferay Portal beneficiary for organization to make a portal with least amount of ownership.
• Liferay Portal beneficiary for end users to make a portal with existing features of it and fulfill their requirement.
• Liferay Portal currently represents as a “Leading Open Source Portal for Global Enterprise”.
• In terms of Liferay Portal features

Liferay Features

Making Easy End User Interfaces Development

• Liferay Portal makes the user interface development easily, user friendly that allows end users to access the portal for its own services.
• Liferay Portal provides smooth straight view layer for communicating all external enterprise application into a single manner.

Easily Allow External Enterprise Integration Framework

• Liferay Portal act as middle demonstrate layer which allows end users, administrators and hands on developers to communicate web materials and services from backend applications.
• Liferay Portal allows and supports to communicate with SOAP, RSS, and REST as well user made API’s.

OOTB Applications Support Tools

• Liferay Portal gives more than 60 out of box pre-build application through which end user make a portal in couple of moments.
• Liferay Portal also known as “Rapid Web Maker Portal” with 60 OOTB Applications.
• In OOTB Applications consist web content publishing, content management and social networking application.

Supports SSO

• Liferay Portal allows communicating with external application through single sign on mechanism.
• Liferay Portal can make all content of your various systems together and make available by single login click mechanism operation.

Drag and Drop

• Liferay Portal was the first portal to allow simply dragging and dropping application them into portal page.

Permission-based Content Display

• Liferay Portals allow user’s types to access a unique URL. Liferay Portal accesses a unique page view depending on the users role, group, organization or personal preferences. Liferay Portal Admin controlled and user customized.

Liferay Sync – Allow To Access Portal From Your Desktop

• Liferay Portal introduces features that allow to access your portal from your system desktop.
• Liferay Portal Sync automatically synchronizes your files from your desktop.
• Liferay Portal Sync automatically manipulates and updates your local files from your desktop to in document library.

Supporting Multi-Lingual

• Liferay Portal came with 30+ languages support.
• End user can use any language with single click through Liferay language application.
• In terms of Liferay Portal benefits

Create your own small personalize world Experience

• Each Liferay Portal user given a set of portal pages to make its own page that are easy to customizable to specific apperance , preferences and needs.
• Each Liferay Portal user can play with its own page and make change for look, add easily number of applications according to its needs.
• Each Liferay Portal user can pintch personal email and calendar applications for their awareness within Liferay Portal.

Easy to use

• Liferay Portal popular with keyword as “Single Click Easy of Use Portal”.
• Liferay Portal allows to dynamic drag and drop features for use application within portal page.
• Liferay Portal serves best user friendly user interface.
• Liferay Portal allows easy communication with external enterprise application.

All right, everyone. Hope you enjoyed this Liferay Post and learn basic overview about Liferay portal features. We will come with again with another knowledge base post of Liferay.