What is a Liferay Portal?
Liferay is open source Portal software and it has a free community edition for commercial use. Liferay is an enterprise web platform to build the business solutions.
Liferay comes in two versions:
- Community Edition
- Enterprise Edition
Liferay Portal is one of the most successful and top Portals available in the present day’s market for developing a website / web application. This portal is made up of hot-deployable plugins called Portlets. Portlets form the heart of a Portal.
Following are the benefits of using a Liferay portal:
- Liferay is open source software
- Web Content Management
- Document Management
- Digital asset management
- Workflow management
- Social collaboration suite (Wikis, Blogs, etc.)
- Supports integration with LDAP
- Support for Hot deployable plugins, etc.
Features of Liferay Portal:
Following are a few features of Liferay Portal:
- Runs on most of the application servers and servlet containers, databases, and operating systems.
- JSR-286 Compliant.
- 60 portlets pre-bundled Out-of-the-box.
- Built in Content Management System (CMS) and Collaboration Suite
- Hot deployable plugins, hence no restart of server required for changes.
- Personalization of Pages for users.