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	* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/ Liferay Portal] on SourceForge
	* [https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal Liferay Portal] on GitHub		* [https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal Liferay Portal] on GitHub
	* [http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki Liferay Portal wiki]		* [http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki Liferay Portal wiki]

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{{Infobox software
| name = Liferay Portal
| title = Liferay Portal
| logo = [[Image:Liferay_logo.jpg‎|155px]]
| screenshot = 
| caption =
| collapsible =
| author =
| developer = Liferay, Inc.
| released = {{Start date|2002|10|11}}<ref name="LiferayStart1">{{cite web |url=https://www.liferay.com/web/michael.young/blog/-/blogs/312439 |title=A walk down memory lane |author=Young, Michael |publisher=Liferay, Inc |date=3 December 2007 |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref><ref name="LiferayStart2">{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files/Liferay%20Portal/ |title=Liferay Portal - Files |publisher=SourceForge |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref>
| discontinued =
| frequently updated = yes
| programming language = Java, JSP
| operating system = Cross-platform
| platform =
| size =
| language =
| status =
| genre = Content management software<br />Enterprise portal software
| license = GNU Library or Lesser General Public License
| website = [http://www.liferay/ 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Portlets |title=List of Liferay Portlets |publisher=Liferay, Inc |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/PHP+Portlets |title=Liferay PHP Portlets |publisher=Liferay, Inc |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref>

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]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-portal/overview |title=Liferay Portal |publisher=Liferay, Inc |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liferay.com/web/bryan.cheung/blog/-/blogs/liferay-adopting-the-lgpl-license comment on |title=Liferay Adopting the LGPL License |author=Chan, Brian |publisher=Liferay, Inc |quote=I started Liferay back in 2000 out of my garage because my pastor asked me to a build a website for our church |date=2 March 2010 |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref> A project page for Liferay was created on SourceForge on March 18, 2002<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/ |title=Liferay Portal |publisher=SourceForge |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref>, followed by a first official release with version 1.7.5 in October of the same year.<ref name="LiferayStart1" /><ref name="LiferayStart2" /> Seeing a true demand for the offering, Liferay, Inc. was formed and incorporated in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liferay.com/about-us |title=About Us - Liferay.com |publisher=Liferay, Inc |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref>

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<ref>{{cite web |title=Liferay Breaks Into EContent Magazine's "EContent 100" Of Industry Leaders |date=20 November 2006 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Nov_20/ai_n16853170 | publisher=Business Wire |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=18642&IssueID=380&PageNum=3 |title=2006 EContent 100 List |publisher=EContent Magazine |date=December 2006 |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref> and in 2007, InfoWorld named it a "Technology of the Year."<ref>{{cite web |title=2007 Technology of the Year Awards: Applications |publisher=InfoWorld |date=1 January 2007 |url=http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2007/01/26-2007_technology-5.html |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref> In July 2007, Liferay announced a partnership with ICEsoft Technologies, provider of the ICEfaces library, for developing Ajax technology for their enterprise portal software.<ref>{{cite web |title=Liferay and ICEfaces Announce Ajax Portal Technology Partnership |date=3 August 2007 |url=http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070723005871&newsLang=en |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref>

In January 2008, the company hired the lead engineer for jQuery UI, to exclusively work full-time on the JavaScript library.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jquery.com/blog/2008/01/23/jquery-ui-and-beyond-the-jquery-liferay-partnership/ | title=jQuery UI and beyond: The jQuery-Liferay partnership |author=Bakaus, Paul |publisher=jQuery.com |date=23 January 2008 |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref>

Liferay 6.1 was released in Fall 2011 and saw several improvements and new functionality<ref>{{cite web |author=Breitner, Daniel |title=New Features of Liferay 6.1 |url=http://liferay-blogging.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-features-of-liferay-61.html |publisher=Liferay, Inc |date=18 June 2011 |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref> including an improved document library, dynamic data lists, and an app store.

==Features==

Features of Liferay Portal Community Edition include<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-portal/features/portal |title=Portal Features |publisher=Liferay, Inc |accessdate=27 March 2012}}</ref>:

* 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. [http://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/overview 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 [http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Quick+Installation+Instructions quick installation instructions].

==Videos, screenshots, and other media==

You can see a few videos about Liferay on the company's [http://www.youtube.com/user/liferayinc 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 [http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-portal/stories Liferay website].

==Further reading==

* {{cite web |url=http://www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.1/user-guide |title=Documentation on Liferay Portal |publisher=Liferay, Inc.}}
* {{cite book |url=http://www.packtpub.com/liferay-portal-systems-development/book |title=Liferay Portal Systems Development |author=Yuan, Jonas X. |publisher=PACKT Publishing |pages=546 |year=2012 |ISBN=1849515980}}
* {{cite web |url=http://liferay-blogging.blogspot.com/ | title=A Blog about Liferay and ICEfaces |publisher=Breitner, Daniel}}

==External links==

* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/ Liferay Portal] on SourceForge
* [https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal Liferay Portal] on GitHub
* [http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki Liferay Portal wiki]

==References==
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