What is liferay

What is liferay?

Liferay is the most innovative, fully functional open source portal product available in the
market. It is open source JAVA based platform to build rapid applications as per your need.
It provide robust platform to build your application very quickly, Because liferay have set of
pre-developed standard application which are common for all application. Each application
called portlet in terms of liferay.

For Example :

1. Blog portlet 
2. login portlet etc.

Like

→ Your can create separate sites for different department of your organization

→ provide accessibility based on different roles and responsibility to user

→  It provide build in administration control panel to control your application behaviour.

→ social login with facebook and google.

→ blog writing and all which is need for an organization.

Currently, At the time of writing this blog(5th jan,2018) Liferay liferay have it’s version 7
in the market which is known as Liferay 7.
Liferay, Comes up with 2 different editions

• Liferay portlet Enterprise Edition (EE)
• Liferay portlet Community Edition (CE)

There is few differences in both Editions they are:

Liferay Enterprise Edition (EE)

• Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition is the commercial version of Liferay’s portal technologies. 
• The Enterprise Edition is a paid portal, which provides an enterprise license from Liferay with ongoing feature updates and full service support.
• Liferay EE is the ideal choice for small and large enterprises, performance, or security  critical applications.
• Liferay EE is all about innovative technologies. Created for the Enterprise, Liferay EE provides a virtual space where you can centralize, share, and collaborate. Liferay EE has a wide range of functionalities which covers your business needs, and can also be customized where needed. Hardened for security and designed to be rock solid stable, Liferay Enterprise is offered with a subscription and support package, allowing organizations to build their portals on a stable version of the product that is offered over an extended period of time.
• A Liferay Portal Enterprise Subscription provides customers with access to professionally supported software, online services and additional access to features and services within the Liferay ecosystem. 
• With an Enterprise subscription, you receive direct access to engineering-grade technical support, 
• security and bug fixes,  training and support tools, as well as additional features within Liferay.

For more details click here.

Liferay Community Edition (CE)

• Liferay Community Edition is the standard, free community version of Liferay. 
• Liferay CE is mostly used for smaller, less critical deployments.
• The main difference between the two is that the Community Edition is free and is distributed “as is”. Liferay Community is available to the public and all users have access to source code in order to add to or customize the application as needed.
• The Liferay CE Edition provides you the flexibility to link Liferay with your own code in your portlet, theme, hook, layout, and Extension web plugins, no matter what license you use for your code.
• The Liferay Community Edition is for those who don’t need or want to commit to a Liferay subscription but still want access to the latest features and updates at no additional cost.

For more details about liferay Click here

Thanks for ready this blog, Next we will setup liferay on local environment.