Liferay Portal

Datasheet
 Liferay Portal datasheet

Liferay Portal Development

Liferay allows the development of websites and applications through
Liferay Portal is the leading open source web portal platform. Used in
tools, methods and services based on industry standards, including:
nearly every industry and widely adopted by enterprises for a broad set of
solutions, Liferay counts a community of more than 100,000 members and Developer Tooling: Liferay provides an Eclipse plugin, called Liferay
nearly a million deployments worldwide. IDE, available from the Eclipse Marketplace that provides a complete
development/test environment for building portlets, hooks and portals.
Liferay Portal, which began as an open source project in 2001, is
a flexible, Java-based web development platform for application UI Frameworks Supported: Liferay AlloyUI (built on YUI3), Twitter
development and solution deployment. Companies across the globe Bootstrap, and more (e.g., JQuery, GWT)
rely on Liferay Portals award-winning technology for its innovative rapid
Portlet Frameworks Supported: JSF, Liferay Faces, MVC, Spring,
development capabilities, impressive scalability and proven reliability.
Vaadin, and more
Common applications of the platform are:
Theming and Templating Supported: Freemarker, Velocity
Personalized Websites
Self-Service Portals Integration: Liferay supports most standards-based ESB/MOM
Online Communities solutions and can integrate with standard ESB protocols such as
Franchised Business Portals SOAP, JSON, REST, and JMS. Liferay contains not only local APIs for
Role Based Websites its services, but also remote APIs via SOAP, JSON and REST. Liferays
Collaboration / Coordination Websites Service Builder allows for defining a model and will automatically
Intranet Portals and Websites build local and remote services that handle class loading, caching and
finders for services. Only the implementation methods for the service
Applications range in size from intranet work group solutions to
need to be added.
multimillion-user websites. Liferay Portal appeals to developers and
architects who appreciate the platforms adherence to industry Liferay Marketplace: Liferay developers can deploy apps from Liferay
standards and support for a broad set of solutions, from lightweight, Marketplace through liferay.com/marketplace or from within the Liferay
rich UI websites to highly secure, mission-critical applications. management console. Liferay Marketplace contains themes, modular
functionality, portlets, and entire applications built on Liferay Portal.
Liferay Portals lightweight platform includes a set of core services
built around a modular core. Services out-of-the-box include portal,
web content management, document management, application Feature Highlight:
integration, content workflow and social collaboration.
Mobile
Key Features Liferay Portal is mobile-ready out of the box with powerful features for
development and support of mobile-enabled websites and native apps.
Liferay Portal ships with 70+ out-of-the-box features and portlets, Default responsive themes, one-click mobile previews, mobile-specific
each with their own service-based API. They include: content with content repurposing, a full Mobile SDK and more make
Liferay Portal a sophisticated delivery platform for any mobile strategy.
Application Templates Open Social Container
Blogs Polls
Calendars
Categories & Tags
Responsive Themes
Role Based Content
Configuration and Deployment
Chat Search Security / Identity Management: Liferay Portal uses industry
Document & Media Library Social Networking standard, government-grade encryption technologies, including
Forums / Message Boards UI Frameworks advanced algorithms such as AES, 3-DES, and RSA. Liferay also offers
Integration Web Content Management a single sign-on (SSO) API that integrates with CAS, LDAP (e.g., Active
Microblogs / Activity Feeds Web Forms / Data Lists Directory), NTLM, CA SiteMinder, Oracle Access Manager, Novell
Mobile Previews Wikis Identity Manager, OpenSSO, SAML and more. Additionally, Liferay
Mobile SDK Workflow Engine Portal ships with robust user management and security features
including password policies, user reminder settings, and complete
login security procedures.

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Performance: Each Liferay Portal version is load tested with single
instances shown to support more than 30K simultaneous virtual users
and more than 5K simultaneous virtual users for collaboration services
on a single 8-core server. Liferay has been proven in Internet solutions
requiring more than 2 million active users.
Clustering/High Availability: With the capability to support a broad
range of deployment sizes, Liferay Portal is configured out of the box
to support a single server environment but can be scaled to support
multiple virtual hosts and load balancers, app server clustering and
database clustering.

Multi-Tenancy: Liferay Portal gives enterprises the ability to Cloud Support: On-premise and hosted cloud configurations are also
organize users by business-defined categories such as departments, supported by Liferay with multiple hosting and managed hosting
geographies, or offices, as well as by cross-departmental teams and providers available today including EC2, Azure and more.
workgroups. Each organization and site can inherit or define its own
permissions and administer user, group and role management for the
various portlets it chooses to include.

Architecture
The following represents the overall architecture of a single Liferay instance.

Desktop Mobile 3rd Party Mobile Liferay WebDAV

Browser Browser Apps Apps Sync Client

Authentication
SAML LDAP CAS OAuth SiteMinder OpenSSO Facebook API & more HTTP Basic HTTP Basic Digest

Front End Web Services WebDAV

Portal UI Gadgets Portlets UI Web Services API
Alloy UI Twitter Bootstrap From outside sites (Google, OpenSocial, etc.) JSP, JSF, Vaadin, GWT, etc. SOAP JSON

Services
External Services (Check Authorization) Portlets
Internal Services

Plugable Architectures
Document Repository Indexing/Search Workflow
IndexWriter WorkflowHandler

Liferay Repository CMIS API Lucene Solr API Kaleo JBPM

Any CMIS Documentum Google Search Kaleo Engine Any JBPM

Compliant System (EE Only) Appliance Compliant Engine
Microsoft
FAST (other)
Persistence

Rational File Storage

File System
Database
Amazon S3
MySQL, DB/2
SQL Server
Oracle & more

Helpful Links: Contact Us:

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Getting Started: https://www.liferay.com/Start Events: https://www.liferay.com/Events 1-877-LIFERAY
Documentation: https://www.liferay.com/Documentation Liferay Community: http://liferay.org sales@liferay.com
Marketplace: https://www.liferay.com/Marketplace Developer IDE: https://www.liferay.com/Developer Visit us: www.liferay.com

Using Liferay:
*Please contact pr@liferay.com for a more comprehensive list of our users.
Deployment Compatibility

Operating Systems Servlet Containers Application Servers Databases Contact sales@liferay.com for the
Linux (CentOS, RHES, SUSE, Resin GlassFish DB2 latest list of supported
Ubuntu, and others) Tomcat configurations and versions.
JBoss MySQL
Unix (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, JOnAS Oracle
Public & Private Clouds
and others) WebLogic PostgreSQL
Liferay Portal is deployable
Windows Server WebSphere SQL Server
to the cloud and
Mac OS X virtualized environments. Tcat Sybase
tc Server

6.2 Feature Detail

Portal Details

Performance & Scalability Identity Management Support Frontend Frameworks Theme Developer Languages
Clustering at any combination of tiers LDAP authentication AlloyUI Freemarker
(presentation, service, business logic, SAML producer / consumer Application Display Templates Velocity
and database) OAuth Device detection
Advanced caching (i.e., Ehcache) Oracle Access Manager
Other Standards / Technologies
TagLibs
Solr search platform support Novell Identity Manager AJAX
Twitter Bootstrap
Performance monitoring support (JMX, Sun Identity Manager iCalendar & Microformat
Java profiling, etc.) OpenSSO / Forgerock
Backend Frameworks JSR-168 (Portlet)
Portlet sandbox capability Asset JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0)
SiteMinder
Cache WSRP 1 & 2
Security Tivoli
Comments JSR-127 (JSF)
Government-grade encryption such as: Facebook standards
Data handlers JSR-314 (JSF 2.0,2.1), JSR-344 (JSF 2.2)
DES, MD5, SHA and RSA. Web Services File storage JSR-170 (Content Repository)
Pluggable authentication
SOAP Membership policies Spring 3.0 & AOP
Email verification
JSON Message bus CMIS 1.0/2.0
Granular permissioning
RMI Permissions OpenSearch 1.1
LDAP authentication
Spring Remoting Ratings OpenSocial 2.5
Session management
WebDAV Recycle bin Hibernate collection of projects
Portlet Developer Languages Scheduler OSGi 4.3
JavaScript Frameworks
Java Scripting SAML 2.0
AlloyUI
Groovy ServiceContext OAuth 1.1
GWT
Ruby Workflow
JSF
PHP
Vaadin
Python
...and others
Scala

Content Management Features

Content Repository Site Publishing Content Creation Mobile
Multi-repository support Dynamic and static site templates WYSIWG editor Mobile previews within browser
Customizable document types Drag and drop site maps Templating: FreeMarker or Velocity Mobile responsive theme
Metadata per document type Sitemap protocol support Global content sharing between sites Mobile device recognition
Friendly page URLs Eclipse-based Mobile SDK
Microsoft Office integration Content sharing in site hierarchy
Remote server staging and scheduling
CMIS support Multiple site variations/versions Themes & Layout
Check in/check out Faceted search JavaScript framework: AlloyUI 2.0
Content previews Recycle bin
CSS framework: Twitter Bootstrap
Content versioning User customizable pages
HTML 5.0 compliant
Define workflows per document type
Responsive mobile theme
Mobile/desktop file synchronization
using Liferay Sync Multiple page layout templates

Collaboration & Social Features

Wikis, Blogs and Message boards Blogs Online Presence & Social Knowledge Base
all contain Recent blogs lists AJAX chat client WYSIWG editor
Badge icon for social activity Friends list Threaded articles
WYSIWG editor
Social bookmarks Activity wall Content history, versioning
Ratings / Comments
Inappropriate content flagging Activity tracker and rollback
RSS feeds
Print to PDF support
Categories / Tags Message Boards Calendar
File attachments
Related assets Recent Posts list, My Posts list AJAX-based interface
Reader subscriptions / RSS
Reader subscriptions Reader subscriptions iCal and microformats support
Ratings / Comments
Wikis Anonymous posting Personal and group
Attach files Task lists Alerts / Announcements
Versioning & reversion
Support for categories/threads Resource scheduling Broadcast news or status
Creole, HTML or MediaWiki syntax
reorganization Email, IM, or SMS event reminders Scheduled start / stop
Attach files
Inappropriate content flagging Site or role based targeting
Threaded comments