Liferay
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Developed by Liferay, Inc
Latest release 5.1 / 17 July 2008; 175 days ago
Written in Java
OS Cross-platform
Development status Active
Type enterprise portal
License MIT Licence
Website http://www.liferay.com

'Liferay, Inc.' is a professional open-source company that provides free documentation and paid professional service to users of its software. Mainly focused on enterprise portal technology, the company was founded in 2000 by Brian Chan and currently has its headquarters in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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History

Liferay was created in 2000 by Chief Software Architect Brian Chan to provide an enterprise portal solution for non-profit organizations.[1] In 2006, the company was incorporated under the name Liferay, Inc., formalized its Germany subsidiary Liferay GmbH. In 2007, the company opened a new Asian headquarters in Dalian, China.

The company's enterprise portal product has been acknowledged by several notable organizations. It was recognized by EContent magazine in its "EContent 100" list of industry leaders [2][3] and in 2007, InfoWorld named it a "Technology of the Year."[4] In July 2007, they announced a partnership with ICEsoft Technologies for developing AJAX technology for their enterprise portal software [5]. In January 2008, the company hired the lead engineer for jQuery UI, to exclusively work full-time on the JavaScript library.[6]

Products

Liferay Inc. develops mainly one product: Liferay Portal. This portal is divided into three main products:

  1. Liferay Portal - JSR-286 enterprise portal platform
  2. Liferay Journal - Content Management System
  3. Liferay Collaboration Suite - Collaboration software (blogs, instant messaging, message boards, etc.)

Technical Specs

Liferay portal supports all major app servers, databases, and operating systems with over 700 deployment configurations. Liferay portal supports I18N for any language out-of-the-box and ships with default translations for 22 languages.

  • Arabic
  • Catalan (Spain)
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Czech
  • Dutch
  • English (US)
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Persian
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish
  • Vietnamese

Additional languages can be added very easily.

Technologies Used: Standards:
  • Apache ServiceMix
  • ehcache
  • Hibernate
  • Java J2EE/JEE
  • jBPM
  • ICEfaces
  • jQuery JavaScript Framework
  • Lucene
  • MuleSource ESB
  • PHP
  • Ruby
  • Seam
  • Spring & AOP
  • Struts & Tiles
  • Tapestry
  • Velocity
  • AJAX and JSON
  • iCalendar and Microformat
  • JSR-286
  • JSR-127
  • JSR-170
  • Seats on the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) and JSF-314 (JSF 2.0) committees
  • OpenSearch
  • Web Services
  • Open platform with support for Hessian, Burlap, REST, RMI, WSRP, WebDAV, etc.

References

  1. ^ Howard, Phil (October 18, 2005). "Liferay after Plumtree: Pure play portals alive and kicking", Reg Developer. 
  2. ^ "Liferay Breaks Into EContent Magazine's "EContent 100" Of Industry Leaders" (November 20, 2006).
  3. ^ "2006 EContent 100 List". EContent Magazine (December 2006).
  4. ^ "2007 Technology of the Year Awards: Applications". InfoWorld (January 1, 2007).
  5. ^ "Liferay and ICEfaces Announce Ajax Portal Technology Partnership" (August 3, 2007).
  6. ^ Bakaus, Paul (January 23, 2008). "jQuery UI and beyond: The jQuery-Liferay partnership".

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liferay,_Inc."

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