Chapter 1. The Liferay difference
This chapter covers
- Understanding portals then and now
- Exploring what Liferay is and how to work with it
- Defining basic portal concepts
- Using Liferay to design a portal
Everybody needs a web site these days. Whether you’re building one for a company, for a service organization, or for personal reasons, you need one. And when trying to decide how to build it, you’ve probably found a dizzying array of choices running on a dizzying array of platforms. How do you go about choosing which platform is best?
If you’re anything like me, you’ve got a list of a bunch of products. You created this list by looking at the feature claims of various software platforms that seem to do something close to what you want to do with your site. Now you’re going through that list, testing the products, weighing their strengths and weaknesses against each other, and weighing those against how well those products’ underlying platforms will fit into your infrastructure.
If Liferay Portal isn’t on your list, you should put it at the top right away. Liferay Portal is a Java-based open source portal, containing an unprecedented number of features that will help you to implement your site in as little time as possible. When you have Liferay on your list, let me respectfully submit that your search can end with Liferay Portal, which is hands down the best platform on which to build a web site.