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Introduction to Liferay,

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Once upon a time

Theapplication

Applicationstack

Portal

Platform


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More than a portal

Portals are best known by the concept of portlets Liferay has so much more by now


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We have come a long way

2005 Liferay Portal 3.6.1 Drag & Drop portlet placement Runtime deployable themes Web-content (Journal Content) Nested Portlets

2006 Liferay Portal 4 Fine grained permissioning JSR-170

Full-page caching Page level themes


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We have come a long way

2008 Liferay Portal 5 JSR-286 Dynamic tagging Sharepoint integration Control panel Custom attributes Several other improvements to existing services


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New in Liferay 6

FunctionalImprovements

Usability andAccessibility

PlatformImprovements

Extensibilityand

Integration


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Integrated Workflow

Allows assigning workflows to content creation for themain out-of-the-box portlets

Configurable per organization or community Uses Kaleo, Liferays built-in workflow engine


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Kaleo JBPM Others

Workflow API

WebContent

DocumentLibrary

Blogs

Comments

MessageBoards

YourPortlet

WorkflowUI

Liferay Workflow Framework


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Workflow API

Standardized API layer for external workflow engineintegration

JBPM already available Allows adding workflow functionality to your portlets


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Simple Approval Workflow

Creation Publication

Review

Editor

Author

Approve?


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New Structure Editor

How do I change the structure of a web content withoutleaving the content editor?

Drag and drop positioning ofelements

Integrated help throughtooltips to guide the user

The ability to changing thestructure without leaving the

content editor


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Asset Publisher improvements

I need to filter contents by some tag or category. Asset publisher now displays any

type of content

Content can be filtered by: Community or scope Specific content type Tags, categories

Filters can be combined inany way


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Page Templates

Why do I have to create the same portlets for my pagesall over again?

Page templates allow thecreation of preconfigured

pages with one click

Speeds up building web siteswith many similar pages

Eases the process of addingpages for non-technical users


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Site Templates

Why do I have to add all these pages and portlets?!? Define a full set of pages with

fully configured portlets

and content

Allows building full web siteswith a click of a button

Can be set at creation topublic and/or private pages


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Other improvements

Social Equity provides the ability to rate the participationof a user based on his activities

Teams allow creating ad-hoc teams of users withincommunities or organizations

Global scope enables sharing content across allcommunities and organizations

Inline permissions allow smart querying the database tofilter out results at the earliest. Applied out-of-the-box todocument library and message boards.


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Usability Improvements

New default theme Improved navigation and administration Face-lift and improved design for content portlets Web accessibility (WCAG 2.0)


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New default design

Clearer design Table-less layout

HTML 5 and XHTML 1.0 Much better base fornew themes


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Improved navigation and administration

Dock-bar simplified administration provides means to

navigate across the

pages of the portal

Unified breadcrumb page hierarchy portlets navigation


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Improved design of portlets

Portlets Document Library Image Gallery Message Boards etc.

Improvements Cleaner design Better layout ofinformation


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Web Accessibility

Adoption of W3Cs WCAG 2.0, which is compatible with web 2.0 technologies and dynamic

web applications

is getting adopted rapidly Usage of Alloy UI taglibs (also helps developers to create

accessible content)

Integration with CKEditor Aiming for AA rating


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Platform Improvements

Performance Audit framework Reports generation Other improvements: scripting framework, sharding


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Performance

Liferay 6 is 3 times faster than 5.2 Liferay 6 EE is 50% faster than CE

From super fast speed To Ludicrous speed


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Audit Framework

Allows auditing any operation performed by the user Customizable through hook plugins Includes UI to query

audit logs

Available in EEversions


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Reports Generation

Allows executing predefined reports based on theinformation of the database:

e.g. growth of users number of content per type

Allows scheduled execution Integrated with the de-facto

standard engines:Jasper, BIRT (soon)

EE version only


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Scripting Frameworks

Allows users to extend the existing functionality by industrystandard script languages

Provides runtime execution of any of the main languagessupported by the JVM: Groovy, Ruby, Python and

JavaScript

Out of the box: Administration Console

Web Form: allows administrators to specify advancedvalidation patterns through Javascript


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Sharding

Lets you distribute data and load across severaldatabases automatically or manually

Just for scalability Data isolation

Can use differentdatabases for differentcustomers (data

isolation)


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Extensibility and Integration

Liferay Developer Studio (a.k.a Liferay IDE) Alloy UI framework Generic Asset Framework Other improvements


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Liferay Development Studio

Allows creating several plugin types (hooks, layouttemplates, portlets, etc.)

Includes application server management Supports deploying,

redeploying and hot

debugging

Supports servicebuilder

Based on eclipse


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Alloy UI Framework

Goal: increase productivity when building advanced UIs Allows encapsulating

advanced UI componentsforreutilization

Very flexible andconfigurable

Specially prepared forportal environments

Provide taglibs for creatingaccessible sites


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Generic Asset Framework

You can add new typesfrom plugins

Provides services forcustom asset types

Asset renderers handledisplaying


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Other Improvements

New standards: CMIS, Atom Publishing Protocol Better integration for MS Office Improvements to tags and categories (including Tag

Cloud)

More flexibility to customize LDAP import andsynchronization


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Conclusions

Liferay 6 consolidates the evolution of Liferayduring the last 10 years

This version adds many useful new featuresbased on customer and community feedback

The platform is now faster, more robust, scalableand extensible.

Support forstandards as well as new usefultechnologies continues to be a priority


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