Summary
Liferay released the 4.0 version of its open-source Java portal management system. The Java Portlets (JSR 168)-compatible product comes with fifty bundled portlets and twenty community-developed themes. The latest release features fine-grained permissions, a Velocity-based template engine, and integration with the Alfresco CMS.
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Liferay is an open-source JSR 168-compatible portal server. Version 4.0 ships with fifty portlets, and features a Velocity-based theming engine. Some of the new features in the latest release are:
Better security model with fine-grained role-based permissions
Enterprise taxonomy support, mirroring the typical hierarchy of an enterprise
Improved page layout with separate public and private page hierarchies, drag and drop, WSYIWYG content management based on AJAX
Improved themes, based completely on Velocity
Scalability improvements, including full-page caching and a smaller memory footpring
Integration with the Alfresco content management system
At the 2006 JavaOne conference, Artima spoke with Liferay's Bryan Cheung about the concepts behind portals and portlets, and the difference between a portal and a content management system (CMS). This three-minute podcast is available at the following URL:
What do you think of portal servers such as Liferay? If you were to build a Web site for a community from scratch, would you use a ready-made portal or content management server, or would you write the site from scratch?
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