Customization and Ease of Development

Created, designed, and honed by developers, Liferay Portal places high value on the ease of development and offers its own SDK. It includes tools such as Liferay Service Builder that automatically generates data tiers (SQL and Hibernate logic / classes), Spring Dependency Injection wiring, and Web Service access. This frees your development team to focus on higher priority matters like business logic. Meanwhile, Liferay Hooks give you access to modify core Liferay functionality without modifying Liferay's core source code. Liferay's extensible development environment permits an easy upgrade path for your customizations because it creates a clean separation between the platform and your modifications. The modular nature of our hooks results in less code to maintain and fewer scenarios to test. Other features include:

• Industry-standard Struts/Tiles MVC framework

• Integrated Kaleo workflow engine allowing developers to define dynamic business processes (i.e., publishing and editorial approval, user registration, e-commerce transactions)

• Spring framework for easy transaction management

• Support for other frameworks including JSF and IceFaces, Wicket, Spring MVC, and others