Liferay Portal

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Liferay Portal
Liferay logo.jpg
Developer(s) Liferay, Inc.
Initial release October 11, 2002 (2002-10-11)[1][2]
Stable release

7.4.3.112 GA112  (March 13, 2024; 8 months ago (2024-03-13))

[±]
Preview release 7.2.0 RC3  (May 20, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-05-20)) [±]
Written in Java, JSP
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Content management software
Enterprise portal software
License(s) GNU Library or Lesser General Public License
Website Liferay.com

Liferay Portal is an open-source content management system and enterprise portal often used to power corporate intranets and extranets. It is available in a free open-source version as Liferay Portal Community Edition and a commercial proprietary version as Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition.

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]

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]

Product history

Liferay was started in 2000 by chief software architect Brian Chan after being asked to create a website for his church by its pastor.[6] A project page for Liferay was created on SourceForge on March 18, 2002[7], followed by a first official release with version 1.7.5 in October of the same year.[1][2] Seeing a true demand for the offering, Liferay, Inc. was formed and incorporated in 2004.[8]

The company's Enterprise Edition has been acknowledged by several notable organizations. It was recognized by EContent magazine in its "EContent 100" list of industry leaders[9][10] and in 2007, InfoWorld named it a "Technology of the Year."[11] In July 2007, Liferay announced a partnership with ICEsoft Technologies, provider of the ICEfaces library, for developing Ajax technology for their enterprise portal software.[12]

In January 2008, the company hired the lead engineer for jQuery UI, to exclusively work full-time on the JavaScript library.[13]

Liferay 6.1 was released in Fall 2011 and saw several improvements and new functionality[14] including an improved document library, dynamic data lists, and an app store.

Features

Features of Liferay Portal Community Edition include[15]:

  • simplified UI development
  • flexible enterprise integration framework
  • out-of-the-box tools
  • secure single sign on (SSO)
  • custom fields
  • user groups, organizations, and sites
  • SOA framework
  • user personalization
  • role-based security
  • single-click configuration
  • dynamic drag and drop
  • user-driven workflow and approval framework
  • file syncing
  • search and tagging
  • multi-language support
  • OpenSocial 1.1 support

Some additional features such as auditing, reporting, performance monitoring, and rules engine integration are only available in the commercial Enterprise Edition. Compare the Community and Enterprise versions for more information.

Hardware/software requirements

Basic requirements for a Liferay bundle installation are 1GB of RAM and Oracle's Sun Java SE 6 (Java 1.6). For more information, consult the quick installation instructions.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

You can see a few videos about Liferay on the company's YouTube channel.

Entities using Liferay Portal

Examples of entities using both the free open-source and commercial version of Liferay Portal include:

Autozone, Berendsen, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, Osaka Gas, Penn State University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Vodafone, Volkswagen, World Vision, York University

A full directory of Liferay Portal users can be found at the Liferay website.

Further reading


External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Young, Michael (3 December 2007). "A walk down memory lane". Liferay, Inc. https://www.liferay.com/web/michael.young/blog/-/blogs/312439. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Liferay Portal - Files". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files/Liferay%20Portal/. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  3. ↑ "List of Liferay Portlets". Liferay, Inc. http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Portlets. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  4. ↑ "Liferay PHP Portlets". Liferay, Inc. http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/PHP+Portlets. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  5. ↑ "Liferay Portal". Liferay, Inc. http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-portal/overview. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  6. ↑ Chan, Brian (2 March 2010). comment on "Liferay Adopting the LGPL License". Liferay, Inc. http://www.liferay.com/web/bryan.cheung/blog/-/blogs/liferay-adopting-the-lgpl-license comment on. Retrieved 27 March 2012. "I started Liferay back in 2000 out of my garage because my pastor asked me to a build a website for our church" 
  7. ↑ "Liferay Portal". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  8. ↑ "About Us - Liferay.com". Liferay, Inc. http://www.liferay.com/about-us. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  9. ↑ "Liferay Breaks Into EContent Magazine's "EContent 100" Of Industry Leaders". Business Wire. 20 November 2006. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Nov_20/ai_n16853170. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  10. ↑ "2006 EContent 100 List". EContent Magazine. December 2006. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=18642&IssueID=380&PageNum=3. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  11. ↑ "2007 Technology of the Year Awards: Applications". InfoWorld. 1 January 2007. http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/01/26-2007_technology-5.html. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  12. ↑ "Liferay and ICEfaces Announce Ajax Portal Technology Partnership". 3 August 2007. http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070723005871&newsLang=en. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  13. ↑ Bakaus, Paul (23 January 2008). "jQuery UI and beyond: The jQuery-Liferay partnership". jQuery.com. http://jquery.com/blog/2008/01/23/jquery-ui-and-beyond-the-jquery-liferay-partnership/. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  14. ↑ Breitner, Daniel (18 June 2011). "New Features of Liferay 6.1". Liferay, Inc. http://liferay-blogging.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-features-of-liferay-61.html. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
  15. ↑ "Portal Features". Liferay, Inc. http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-portal/features/portal. Retrieved 27 March 2012. 
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