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Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 7:13pm CEST

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When you plan to build an amazing website based on a portal, you may commonly consider a lot of questions. Some of them would look like the following:


• Are you planning to build a website with an open source enterprise portal solution using SOA framework, ESB and Web 2.0 technologies?
• Do you want to add collaborative tools, such as Wikis, Blogs, Discussion Forums, Shared Calendar, RSS, mail, Tagging, and instant messaging in the same website?
• Do you want to manage, publish and maintain web contents and documents in the same website?
• Are you eager to integrate with LDAP, SSO and third-party systems like JBoss jBPM, Alfresco, Orbeon Forms, and Pentaho BI/Reporting in the same website?

Obviously Liferay would be the best choice in terms of answering the above questions. Liferay Portal is one of the most mature portal frameworks in the market and offers the above basic benefits. Liferay is backed by a comprehensive professional services network and it offers custom development, training, and support across the world.

As the world's leading open source portal platform, Liferay provides a unified web interface to data and tools scattered across many sources. Within Liferay portal, a portal interface is composed of a number of portlets—self contained interactive elements that are written to a particular standard. Since portlets are developed independently of the portal itself, and loosely coupled with the portal, they are apparently SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture).