Liferay portals

Liferay Portal

Wow. What an experience working with a beast of a portal server. It’s around 85 MB in size and does lot of stuffs when it comes to managing portals. No nasty configuration steps and easily deployable with tomcat/jboss bundled. I am waiting to see more application servers integration support. It also supports pretty good extended environment to compile our applications adding portlets.

I must say open source community is now into a new and different channel of thought. And this one is pretty big. It’s a java portal but still it should be disturbing all the perl and python developers.

I must say web developing and content management are pretty big and frequent words used these days. I had the oppurtunity to work in liferay (and still continuing) and i learnt the core idea.

I believe it will serve as a pretty good enterprise platform for content management and applications. Since lightweight java services like Springs, Struts etc creating significant market, liferay is set to get mature with them. Even though i could not work much on configuring liferay i was able to get a feel of it. Especially the themes configuration are made so simple. And not to forget user and portlet permission management. It can be just done in ease.

Once place where one as a liferay administrator can get stuck is with the versions. And it’s generally not so administrator friendly when it comes to debugging errors (apart from those typical java application errors). He/she needs a pretty decent hands on experience and must be able to master the liferay specific portlet configurations.

The portlet based application development are getting fame slowly but i believe one day they would definitely gain more space with more better standards flowing.

Issues regarding liferay and setup are pretty interesting topics to read on. I would like to devote some time in future writing them here. Happy reading.