Liferay Portal Development and its features

1. Liferay Portal Development and its features • The article is a look into the many features that has led Liferay Portal Development a huge favorite with businesses. • One of the globe’s leading open source enterprise portal solutions is the Liferay Portal. It is mainly used to enable corporate extranet as well as the intranet. The portal employs the latest in Java and Web 2.0 technologies. For over five years, the enterprise portal software has been actively developing enterprise portal software for its clients. It has integrated with enterprise application such as SAP, Alfresco, HR application etc. • Liferay Portal Development is also described as a web application framework or content management framework and has all the features that a website can offer to its users. Several functional units which are also known as portlels comprise it. Liferay also offers extensive support for extensions and plug-ins for many programming languages and is written in Java. It runs on any Java Runtime Environment powered computer system and should be coupled with an application server. Liferay is a programming interface for Java programmers, but the administrator can install the website without having sound technical knowledge. • Liferay is an open source and free enterprise portal, which is mainly used to enable corporate extranet and intranet. It is also described as a web application framework or content management framework. It has all the features that a website can offer its users. It is made of many functional units, which are known as portlels. Written in Java, Liferay offers extensive support for extensions and plug-ins for many programming languages. It runs on any Java Runtime Environment powered computer system and should be coupled with an application server. Liferay is a programming interface for Java programmers, but the administrator can install the website without having sound technical knowledge. This is the primary feature of Liferay. • Several businesses have warmly embraced Liferay for many of its features that are as follows: • Simplified User Interface Development offers simplified internal and external websites for different users. It uses a singular presentation layer for all businesses. • Flexible Enterprise Integration Framework is central presentation layer that allows administrators, users, and developers integrate various services from backend applications. • Liferay Secure Single Sign On can integrate all different systems for the end-users while they can access these applications by logging in through the Secure Single Sign On. • Custom Fields is the administrator which can edit, add, and customize attributes of the users directly from the portlets of Liferay without accessing or modifying the company database. • Liferay Extensive Support provides support for different platforms such as web content, documents, blogs, image files, calendar, forum, bookmarks, wiki pages etc. • Rules Engine Integration allows 'Contextual Personalization' that are based on the location of the end-users and their activities. • Liferay Communities consist of end-users that are grouped into several communities, so that they can enjoy effortless and flexibility administration. • User Personalization with the permission of administrator, the user can personalize his website pages. He can add and remove content of his website. The user can keep his website private or make it public as well. • Kentico CMShas let many users access one URL with its role based content delivery. However, the administrator has to allow user-access after assessing user role and preferences.