Open Standards and the latest technologies ease the pain of integration.
Deployment
Operating Systems
Linux (CentOS, RHES, SUSE, Ubuntu, and others)
Unix (AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Solaris, and others)
Windows
Servlet Containers
Jetty
Resin
Tomcat
Application Servers
Apache Geronimo
Sun GlassFish 2 UR1
JBoss
JOnAS
OracleAS
SUN JSAS
WebLogic
WebSphere
Databases
Apache Derby
IBM DB2
Firebird
Hypersonic
InterBase
JDataStore
MySQL
Oracle
PostgresSQL
SAP MaxDB
SQL Server
Sybase
Liferay Portal
Technologies
AJAX
Apache ServiceMix
Docbook
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 Microsystems portlet container.
Web Services
JSON
Hessian
Burlap
REST
RMI
Spring HTTP
WSRP (full support for 1.0 and 2.0)
WebDAV
Architecture
Hierarchical and extensible system of communities and organizations
Mule or ServiceMix ESB
Single Sign On (Yale CAS and Siteminder 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)
Terracotta DSO integration
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
Content Management
Document Library
JSR-170 compliant Java Content Repository
Check in/check out
Integration with Microsoft Office®
Versioning
Workflow
Fine grained permissioning
Multi-file uploads
File format conversion among common formats like Microsoft Office, PDF, TXT and HTML (import and export)
WebDAV enabled
Image gallery
Themes & Layout
User group page templates
Automatic page structure inheritance
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
Knowledge Management
Bootstrap knowledge base via Docbook file import
Taxonomy (categorization) framework
Framework to add taxonomies to custom portlets
Journal, Wiki, Knowledge Base Taxonomy-enabled
Category-based navigation
Collaboration & Social
Wikis
Rich text editor (WYSIWYG)
Versioning & reversion
Creole syntax support
File attachments
Threaded comments
Recent changes tracking
LDAP integration
Tag-based navigation
RSS
Blogs
Rich Text Editor (WYSIWYG)
Social bookmarking
Threaded comments
Tags and Labels
Social Bookmarking
Rating system
Trackback URLs
RSS
Message Boards
Rich text editor (WYSIWYG)
Role-based permissioning
User data display
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
User profile pictures
User controlled status updates
Jabber protocol
Chat sessions persist across all pages
Calendar
AJAX-based interface
iCal and Microformats support
Task lists for event creation, management, and search
