Liferay

Liferay Portal is a Java/J2EE portal system that provides personalization (like Yahoo!), web email (like Hotmail), blogs (like Xanga), document library, CMS, message boards (like Jive), shopping (e-commerce), Wiki and many other web tools all available

Liferay Portal 是世界上开源企业解决方案的领军者，它使用的是最新的 Java 和 Web 2.0技术。 Liferay Technical Specifications

可以在任何Java EE 的应用程序服务器、servlet 容器、数据库以及操作系统上运行（超过700个部署组合）；
即开即用——超过六十多种portlets可供选择；
内置的内容管理系统(CMS) 以及协作包；
随时可用的开发工具；
获奖的AJAX用户界面；
默认的语言有22种；
完全LDAP同步；
Liferay被测评为使用逻辑库的逻辑扫描包的最安全的门户平台之一；
商业友好MIT许可；

InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Awards:

Liferay Wins for Best Open Source Portal!

CEO, Bryan Cheung will be presenting a keynote entitled, "Beyond Portals - Collaboration, Social Networking, and Web 2.0 for the Enterprise".

Install

Windows

Liferay 4.3

get it from http://download.huihoo.com/liferay/ 如: 
java -jar liferay-portal-glassfish-4.3.3-win32.jar
cd D:\liferay-4.3.3\glassfish-2.0b41d\bin
asadmin.bat start-domain domain1
http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home
username: [email protected] password: test
http://localhot:4848/
admin/adminadmin

Linux

get it from http://download.huihoo.com/liferay/
unzip liferay-portal-jetty-4.2.2.zip
vi bin/run.sh 
java -Xmx256m ... //估计你没有 768m的内存 :)
bin/run.sh 
http://localhost:8080/
[email protected]/test

Plugins

Official Plugins http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/official_plugins

Mail Server

Liferay Mail Server 的配置, 参考: http://docs.huihoo.com/liferay/4.3/installation-guide/ch05.html

打开${TOMCAT_HOME}\conf\Catalina\localhost\Root.xml文件，编辑其中的Mail/MailSession段，设置如下：

   <Resource
          name="mail/MailSession"
          auth="Container"
          type="javax.mail.Session"
          mail.imap.host="localhost"
          mail.pop3.host="localhost"
          mail.smtp.host="localhost"
          mail.store.protocol="imap"
          mail.transport.protocol="smtp"
  />

在Admin→Authentication可以设置用邮件或者用户名或识别号进行登录。在没有设置好邮件系统的时候，可选择使用用户名方式验证登录。

Road Map

Integration Alfresco Portlets, Magnolia CMS, MVN Forum, OpenCMS ...

Refactor Portal Core using JSF

Refactor Portlets using JSF

Business Intelligence Suite (Liferay Vision)

Learning Management System (Liferay University)

http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Liferay_Portal_Road_Map

核心技术

Liferay Infrastructure is SOA Framework

Architecture

用户能通过以下接口访问portal : SOAP,RMI,Custom tunneling class
HTML and WML: Struts Servlet
Web Services : Axis Servlet
J2ME,J2SE,J2EE: Tunnel Servlet
JSR 168 (Java Portlet Specification) http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr168/index.html
J2EE (Servlets and .JSPs, optionally EJBs if transactions needed)
Tomcat or JBoss (or numerous other application servers) http://tomcat.apache.org/
Any SQL database (mySQL or numerous other SQL databases)
Apache Struts + Tiles http://struts.apache.org/
Apache Velocity http://velocity.apache.org
EasyConf http://easyconf.sourceforge.net/
Hibernate http://www.hibernate.org/
Spring http://www.springframework.org/

Journal

Liferay Journal is Liferay Portal's built-in content management system (CMS) ready to deliver portal-based web publishing and document management.

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/cms

SSO

Permissions

Permissions Tables

explains the inner details of how the permissions system works in Liferay

http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Permissioning_Explained

Internal API

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/devzone/forums/message_boards/message/18493

Liferay Ecosystem

Chutes and Ladders - Liferay. The diagram below is incomplete but begins to show how the Liferay community can work to create an ecosystem and how the some of the roles interact. Note that many activities cause benificial positive feedback loops which lead to a strong community, a strong product and thus a strong business model for Liferay, Service Integrators, and Customers.

Liferay Dependencies

Liferay 项目中所使用的软件包

http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Liferay_Dependencies

High Availability

Liferay High Availability

Liferay High Availability 涉及以下几个层次：

Virtual Hosting
Tomcat Clustering
Load Balancing
Database Clustering

Developer

Source Code Organization

You just downloaded the source code. Inside you find a the following directory structure:

-rwx------ 1 app.server.properties
drwx------+ 7 applets
-rwx------ 1 build-common-ejb.xml
-rwx------ 1 build-common-java.xml
-rwx------ 1 build-common-web.xml
-rwx------ 1 build-common.xml
-rwx------ 1 build.properties
-rwx------ 1 build.xml
-rwx------ 1 changes.txt
drwx------+ 2 classes
drwx------+ 3 cms-web
-rwx------ 1 copyright.txt
drwx------+ 4 counter-ejb
drwx------+ 2 definitions
drwx------+ 4 documentlibrary-ejb
drwx------+ 5 filters
drwx------+ 4 laszlo-web
drwx------+ 3 layouttpl
drwx------+ 5 lib
drwx------+ 4 lock-ejb
drwx------+ 5 mail-ejb
drwx------+ 3 portal-client
drwx------+ 3 portal-ear
drwx------+ 4 portal-ejb
drwx------+ 4 portal-kernel
drwx------+ 3 portal-web
drwx------+ 8 portlets
-rwx------ 1 release.properties
-rwx------ 1 sample-dao-portlet-4.1.0.war
-rwx------ 1 sample-jsf-myfaces-portlet-4.1.0.war
-rwx------ 1 sample-jsf-sun-portlet-4.1.0.war
-rwx------ 1 sample-json-portlet-4.1.0.war
-rwx------ 1 sample-jsp-portlet-4.1.0.war
-rwx------ 1 sample-struts-portlet-4.1.0.war
drwx------+ 19 sql
drwx------+ 2 themes
drwx------+ 4 tools
drwx------+ 3 tunnel-web
drwx------+ 4 util-bridges
drwx------+ 4 util-java
drwx------+ 4 util-taglib
drwx------+ 4 util-wsrp
drwx------+ 3 web-sites

Code

https://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lportal/portal/

Eclipse

http://download.huihoo.com/liferay/20081016-158.html

User

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http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/stories

Alfresco

创建 Alfresco Portlet

EmForge

EmForge Portlets

EmForge Portlets http://www.emforge.org/attach/liferayportletdownload/emforge-portlet.war

JBoss jBPM

Social Networking

成功应用