Liferay

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Liferay is a popular open source web portal and portlet server. Other portal software includes:

• Sakai, which is education-oriented
• GridSphere, which is grid-oriented

Contents 1 To Do 2 Where to find help 2.1 Within NCSA 2.2 Outside NCSA 3 Deployment 4 Extensions 5 Portlets

To Do

• Publish directions on how we set up Liferay
  • NCASSR (currently in nwiki, which is not world-readable)
  • ECID (currently in ECID CVS)

Where to find help

Within NCSA

• People and projects at NCSA that use Liferay
• Mailing list, lportal-devgroup@ncsa.uiuc.edu
  • Archives at https://internal.ncsa.uiuc.edu/lists/lportal-devgroup/ (private NCSA, for now)
  • To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@ncsa.uiuc.edu with the body "subscribe lportal-devgroup youremail@sample.edu"

Outside NCSA

• Liferay's JIRA issue tracker, which includes some NCSA queries
• A free downloadable book about Struts portlet development (registration required)

Deployment

• Liferay 4.3 Build OSX

Extensions

• Liferay Authentication Extensions

Portlets

• AJAX file-browsing portlet developed for NCASSR
  • source code
  • Uses ZK, an open-source AJAX framework