http://mjsawyerjr.chudadi.com/ Thoughts on free softwares and web en http://mjsawyerjr.chudadi.com/2009/01/20/liferay-portals.html Liferay Portal Wow. What an experience working with a beast of a portal server. It’s around 85 MB in size as well as does lot of stuffs when it comes to managing portals. No nasty configuration steps as well as easily deployable with tomcat/jboss bundled. I am waiting to see more application servers integration support. It also supports pretty good extended environment to compile our applications adding portlets. I must say open source community is now into a new as well as different channel of thought. And this one is pretty big. It’s a java portal but still it should be disturbing all of the perl as well as python developers. I must say web developing as well as content management are pretty big as well as frequent words used these days. I had the oppurtunity to work in liferay (and still continuing) as well as i learnt the core idea. I trust it shall serve as a pretty good enterprise platform on behalf of content management as well as applications. Since lightweight java services like Springs, Struts etc creating significant market, liferay is set to get mature with them. Even though i could not work much on configuring liferay i was able to get a feel of it. Especially the themes configuration are made so simple. And not to forget user as well as portlet permission management. It can be just done in ease. Once place where one as a liferay administrator can get stuck is with the versions. And it’s generally not so administrator friendly when it comes to debugging errors (apart from those typical java application errors). He/she needs a pretty decent hands on experience as well as must be able to master the liferay specific portlet configurations. The portlet based application development are getting fame slowly but i trust one day they would definitely gain more space with more better standards flowing. Issues regarding liferay as well as setup are pretty interesting topics to read on. I would like to devote some time in future writing them here. Happy reading.        Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:12:23 -0500 mjsawyerjr