Introducing World of Liferay

We recently upgraded our live site to use the latest 5.0.x branch. Besides that, we also introduced our first set of custom social networking portlets for use on www.liferay.com. They're code named "WOL" for World of Liferay. The code is available at http://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lportal/plugins/trunk under the package wol-portlet.

WOL serves two purposes. First, it serves as a sample social networking site that uses Liferay's Social services. Many of our clients already use them, but we obviously can't just publish their code. So think of WOL as our Java pet store. Just as the pet store illustrates JEE blueprint principles, so WOL illustrates Liferay's Social services. The big difference though is that we're actually using WOL. Liferay's Social services are also exposed via OpenSocial so it's standards compliant and via JSON/SOAP for easy integration.

Second, WOL serves to help foster the Liferay community by tying in message boards, blogs, JIRA, wikis, meet ups, and other community activity under one umbrella. We're big advocates that a portal framework is a solid foundation for building social networks. And what better way to show the world we believe that, than to use our own open source software to help connect our community.

We're also looking for better ways to reward and track contributions to the Liferay community. For example, in World of Warcraft, you kill monsters. And in killing monsters, you gain experience and level up. In the same way, on www.liferay.com, we'll be measuring involvement in the community via killing "bugs", posting message board threads (did you help someone or are you just a spammer?), etc.

There's a lot more details that we'll be fleshing out in the coming months. So feel free to let us know what you think.

Point systems...

Levels...

Guilds...

Quests...

This is going to be fun.

[Alexander Chow]

Very cool yet very geeky at the same time! WOL... <shakes head>

[Ezequiel Chavez]

Interesting example of social network.

Will be available from plugin installer?

[Brian Chan]

Yes. It will be available soon as a plugin and is already available in SVN.

[Pat cheung]

opensocial compliant?...that's excellent!

[John Ruffin]

I have the latest from lportal 5.0.* branch and the latest from the plugins trunk. I can add the WoL portlets but I don't see how to add/remove friends...

[Brian Chan]

We'll be committing that piece later this week.

[John Ruffin]

OK. BTW, the Toggle Edit Controls thinge on the dock would be nice too.

[Christian Steiger]

Hi Brian,
is there a timeline when 5.0.2 with WOL will be released?
Im very excited to usw it.....

best regards
Christian

[Ray Augé]

WOL is a set of portlets offered as a Liferay plugin. If you take a look at SVN, you''l find it under the "plugins" module.

Enjoy!

[John Ruffin]

Hey Brian, will the WoL friends maintenance pieces be available soon?

[Neeraj Kainth]

Brian,

Per your update, you mentioned that the functionality of add/delete friends will be relased in the month of June and its Aug end.

please let me know if that is already being released or not...?

[Neeraj Kainth]

Hi Brian,

Per your update, you mentioned that the functionality of add/delete friends will be relased in the month of June and its Aug end.

please let me know if that is already being released or not...?

[Brant Levinson]

Is there any updates on the timelines/status?

[Raja Nagendra Kumar]

Hi,

Thre is no subdirector wol-portlet at URL http://lportal.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lportal/plugins/trunk . Thre is one under portlets directory.. but this does not have the source code.

Could any one tell us where to find the source code of the same.

Regards,
Raja Nagendra Kumar,
C.T.O
www.tejasoft.com

[Advait Trivedi]

Class com.liferay.portal.model.impl.BaseModelImpl is not available in SP3 in portal-service, but it is in portal-impl. Due to this I cannot build source code for WOL on SP3, is there any way around to build this portlet on SP3 ? Perhaps, another location is SVN where SP3 compliant source code is available ?