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liferay integration

Liferay portal is world`s leading open source enterprise portal application

It is built on top of java 1.5, open source and web 2.0 technologies

Latest stable release is 5.1.2

Jsr-286 complaint liferay is in the expert group of the jsr

Liferay Provide

Out of box tools (including wiki, cms, blogs, document management, chat)

Communities and organization structure

Customized personal user pages

SOA frame work

Easy one click configuration

Technologies supported and ured

Ajax

Apache service mix

Ehcache

Groovy

Hibernate

Ice faces

Java j2ee/jee

Jbpm

Jgoups

Jquery javascript framework

Lucene

Mule source esb

Php

Ruby

Seam

Spring & aop

Struts & tiles

Tapestry

Velocity

Plugins sdk can be used to create portlets and

themes and deploy them to the Liferay portal

• Easiest and fastest way to start building the

enterprise portal application

• Plugins are hot deployed to tomcat

Using the plugins sdk

• Plugins are fully JSR compliant and plugins

developed outside sdk can also be used

An extension environment can be created from

Liferay portal source

• The ext environment gives us complete control over

the way the system behaves with ways to

reconfigure default Liferay behavior

• release.adave.properties

Creating an extension environment

• app.server.adave.properties

• ant clean start build-ext (takes 7-8 mins)

• ant clean deploy (takes 1-2 mins)

• Configure root.xml on tomcat to connect to database

• Run the app …

Service builder

Liferay has very good service builder

utility. We can specify our domain model in

a service.xml file and run an ant task. The

utility will create Java files, Hibernate files,

and service classes

• Service Builder is a RAD tool, we may

choose to use our own service framework

and layer instead

Security

• Liferay Portal uses industry standard, governmentgrade

encryption technologies including advanced

algorithms such as DES, MD5 and RSA. Liferay

was benchmarked as among the most secure portal

platforms using LogicLibrary's Logiscan suite.

• Pluggable Authentication

• Email Verification

• Granular Permissioning

• LDAP Authentication

• Session Management

Performance

Multi-tier clustering at any combination of multiple tiers

(presentation, service, business logic, and database)

• Advanced Caching

• Page Caching

• Load Balancing

• Session Replication

• Distributed Cache

• Static Content Export

• *Liferay Portal has been deployed to Amazon EC2

which uses virtualization and cloud computing

technologies to scale dynamically to geographically

specific areas of demand.

Liferay supports Web Services

• JSON

• Hessian

• Burlap

• REST

• RMI

• Spring HTTP

• WSRP

• WebDAV

Liferay with Groovy, Ruby, PHP

We can create Groovy, Ruby or PHP

portlets and use them with Liferay

• Liferay plugins repository has several

examples of these