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What's New? #
The What's News section is a great place to start if you are a community member but you have been out of the game for a while or if you simply want to keep an eye on what the latest liferay events are.
Liferay Wiki - Liferay has decided to use Media wiki while its own wiki is developed. If you are not familiar with MediaWiki or its syntax open this link in a new window: Wiki Help.
Please make an effort to contribute where you can! Remember to "Watch" pages that interest you. Also, note the discussion tab. If you have a note / question to contribute that does not fit well within the "article"; the discussion tab is a great venue.
Liferay Portal Roadmap - The Liferay Portal Road Map is broken down in to several stages: Horizon I, Horizon II, Horizon III, and Horizon IV. Horizon I is the closest to release on the road map and the features and dates listed are concrete. Horizon II Features and dates are approximate, but close. Horizon I & II have code names. Horizon III dates and features are a best guess estimate. Horizon IV is blue sky.
Liferay Release Schedule - The Liferay release schedule can be used to track major, minor, and patch releases.
Liferay 4.1.x Released Liferay 4.1 has been released! Check out the release notes here!
Articles #
The Purpose, Power and Pitfalls of Portal
http://wiki.oss-watch.ac.uk/InterPortletCommunicationConsideredHarmful
Architecture #
Liferay Design Principles - Getting into the code? Wish you could get inside the heads of the architects? This is the place to start. The source code corpus is an extension of the principles of software design held by its authors.
Portal Architecture - Architectural documentation and design documents for the portal infrastructure.
Portlet Architecture - Portlet Architecture give details on Portlet services and specializations provided by Liferay Portal. Portlet Architecture also covers the architecture of serveral key Liferay Portlets.
Documentation #
Frequently Asked Questions - Have a question about Liferay? Check here first!
Portal Tutorials - Want to get a quick start on Liferay or see Liferay in action? Start here with our tutorials.
Liferay Features - The feature matrix provides an up-to-date listing and description of the features supported by the Liferay portal. A seperate List is maintained for Portal and Portlets to keep these functionalities clearly seperated.
Liferay Portlets - Looking for a particular portlet? Liferay has many portlets available right off the shelf!
Liferay Themes Liferay supports Themes and custom visual geometry allowing users to choose a look and feel with the touch of a button.
Server Administration Guide - The administation guide provides details for installing an maintaining Liferay in the supported environments.
Developer Guides - The Developer Guide provides a developer with the information, and examples needed to extend the core portal or to create Liferay portal add-ons like Themes and Portlets.
Java Docs - Java API Documentation
Developer Notebooks - Developer notebooks are documentation contributed by the community and staff that doesnt naturally fall into the core documentation that exists. Its generally very detailed on a given subject. We can use this area to draw on as we build up the core documentation going forward.
Test Plan - The Liferay test plan exposes the methods and processes for testing the portal and its applications and extensions.
Known Issues - Having an issue and want to find out if others have experienced similar issues, and if so what the fix is or what its status is? Start here.
Liferay Dependencies - Detailed information on Liferay dependencies and the licensing of the dependencies
Roadmap #
Liferay Portal Roadmap - The Liferay Portal Road Map is broken down in to several stages: Horizon I, Horizon II, Horizon III, and Horizon IV. Horizon I is the closest to release on the road map and the features and dates listed are concrete. Horizon II Features and dates are approximate, but close. Horizon I & II have code names. Horizon III dates and features are a best guess estimate. Horizon IV is blue sky.
Liferay Portlets Roadmap - The Liferay Portlet Road Map is broken down in to several stages: Horizon I, Horizon II, Horizon III, and Horizon IV. Horizon I is the closest to release on the road map and the features and dates listed are concrete. Horizon II Features and dates are approximate, but close. Horizon I & II have code names. Horizon III dates and features are a best guess estimate. Horizon IV is blue sky. On the road map you will find extensions, fixes and enhancements for existing portlets as well as definition for new portlets.
Community Roadmap - The Community Road Map is something that you may not come across on many OSS projects/products. In general it is in the minds of the community as tacit knwoledge but is not written down. We would like to take the next steps and begin defining how we would like to evolve / mature the community and its tools. This definition and road map is the responsibility of the community to define and maintain.
Process #
Liferay Development Lifecycle -
Community Source Contribution Process -
Tools #
Liferay Whiteboard - The liferay whiteboard section is for those project which have migrated off of developer notebooks and on to the Portal and Portlet Roadmaps. This is an area where the community can do distributed design. This documentation is likely to be repurposed in manuals once the designs are released as product.
Portal Integrations #
Alfresco Content Management - Alfresco is a Open Source Enterprise Content Managment System with growing support for Document Management, Web Content Management, Records Management, Imaging and more. Alfresco support the latest JCR (Java Content Repository Specification)
Contributions #
How to Contribute - Have an idea, criticism, or code to contribute but don't know what the process and venue for contribution is? Start Here.
Contribution Suggestions - Have some time on your hands? Want to contribute to the Liferay Project but don't know how? We have been collecting a few ideas! Not a developer? That's OK!! We have ideas that can be contributed by innovators of all backgrounds!
Release Information #
Communications And Resources #
Training and Certification - A discription of Liferay Training and Certification services.
Support Services - Running Liferay in production? Check here for Liferay Support Services to ensure your environment has the support it needs.
Professional Development Services - Need some development but don't have the time? You can hire Liferay!
Business #
Business Overview - A brief overview of Liferay, the product, the motivation behind the project and product and the employees who make it happen.
Other Portals #
What are the JSR-168 compeditors to Liferay? We will do our best (with your help) to keep a matrix of each compeditor, what they support and how we stack up. Progressive Insurrance Style :)
About This Wiki #
