Open Standards and the latest technologies eases the pain of integration.
Deployment
Operating Systems
Linux
Mac OS X
Unix
Windows
Servlet Containers
Jetty
Resin
Tomcat
Application Servers
Borland ES
Apache Geronimo
Sun GlassFish 2 UR1
JBoss
JOnAS
JRun 4 Updater
OracleAS
Orion
Pramati
RexIP
SUN JSAS
WebLogic
WebSphere
Databases
Apache Derby
IBM DB2
Firebird
Hypersonic
Informix
InterBase
JDataStore
MySQL
Oracle
PostgresSQL
SAP
SQL Server
Sybase
Liferay Portal
Technologies
AJAX
Apache ServiceMix
ehcache
Groovy
Hibernate
ICEfaces
Java J2EE/JEE
jBPM
JGroups
jQuery JavaScript Framework
Lucene
MuleSource ESB
PHP
Ruby
Seam
Spring & AOP
Struts & Tiles
Tapestry
Velocity
Standards
AJAX
iCalendar & Microformat
JSR-168
JSR-127
JSR-170
JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0)*
JSF-314 (JSF 2.0)
OpenSearch
*Full integration with the Sun Microsystem portlet container.
Web Services
JSON
Hessian
Burlap
REST
RMI
Spring HTTP
WSRP
WebDAV
Architecture
Hierarchical and extensible system of communities and organizations
Mule or ServiceMix ESB
Single Sign On (Yale CAS out of the box) Also supports JAAS, LDAP, Netegrity, Microsoft Exchange
Security (DES, MD5, RSA)
Performance & Scalability
Multi-tier clustering at any combination of multiple tiers (presentation, service, business logic, and database)
Advanced Caching
Page Caching
Load Balancing
Session Replication
Distributed Cache
Static Content Export
*Liferay Portal has been deployed to Amazon EC2 which uses virtualization and cloud computing technologies to scale dynamically to geographically specific areas of demand.
Security
Liferay Portal uses industry standard, government-grade encryption technologies including advanced algorithms such as DES, MD5 and RSA. Liferay was benchmarked as among the most secure portal platforms using LogicLibrary's Logiscan suite.
Pluggable Authentication
Email Verification
Granular Permissioning
LDAP Authentication
Session Management
Liferay CMS
Document Library
JSR-170 compliant Java Content Repository
Check in/check out
Versioning
Workflow
Fine grained permissioning
Multi-file uploads
File format conversion among common formats like Microsoft Office, PDF, TXT and HTML
WebDAV enabled
Image gallery
Themes & Layout
User group page templates
jQuery standardized
Semantic & nonobtrusive markup
LAR import/export of themes
Hot-deployable
Web & Workspace Publishing
Rich (WYSIWG) text editors
Separation of content from layout
Reusable content
CSS
Logical content templates using either Velocity or XSL
Bookmarks
Dynamically generated site taxonomy
Drag and droppable site map
Sitemaps protocol support
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
OpenSearch
Live page editing
Staging and scheduling to remote servers
Friendly URLs
Meta tagging
Liferay Collaboration
Wikis
Rich text editor (WYSIWYG)
Versioning & reversion
Creole syntax support
File attachments
Threaded comments
Recent changes tracking
LDAP integration
Tag-based navigation
RSS
Blogs
Social bookmarking
Rich Text Editor (WYSIWYG)
Threaded comments
Tags and Labels
Social Bookmarking
Rating system
Trackback URLs
RSS
Message Boards
Role-based permissioning
User data display
Rich text editor (WYSIWYG)
Threaded comments and categories management
Versioning
Statistics
Recent posts
Email based subscriptions
RSS
Presence
AJAX chat client
Dynamic friend list
Activity wall
Activity tracker with Activity Tracker API
Mashups & Integration
User location map
Facebook
OpenSocial
iGoogle / Google Gadget
Instant Messaging
AJAX-based IM client
Jabber protocol
Sessions persist across all pages
Calendar
AJAX-based
iCal and Microformats support
Task lists for event creation, management, and search
