Comments on: Open Source Portals Comparison

By: shahsikant

shahsikant — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:37:59 +0000

hi all

can any one tell me how can i craete a simple portalet in gridsphere in which data retrived from database and it disply in gridsphere

Thanks
shahsikant

By: Abdulhameed Alhinbazly

Abdulhameed Alhinbazly — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:21:29 +0000

I think liferay is very impressive portal we are planning to building portlets using advantages of it’s extension environment.
its documentation is very useful for setting up development environment on multiple web containers such as Tomcat ,JBoss etc.
but examples are very trivial , it’s more useful if they try to explain their demo portlets implementation ,in this case I’m sure they will won a wide acceptance so developers can learn its powerful features ..
one note for Mr rjcarr: they mustn’t worry too much about support they will have it when developers choose their product, and well documentation is the key isn’t true?

By: Darshak

Darshak — Mon, 15 May 2006 22:25:57 +0000

Hi there,

I would like to know any live project you guys have done using Liferay. If yes, what is the learning curve required? Did you had to take consultancy from liferay itself or how did you figure out customization issues?

It would be interesting to know all these points before we conclude the products support to JSR-168 and 170.

Cheers,

Darshak

By: rjcarr

rjcarr — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:10:44 +0000

To Sateesh: I’ve been using liferay and what Javed said is spot on. It is an impressive product from a user perspective, and easy to set up out of the box, but if you want to customize it is very hard to track things down, and the forum community is almost non-existent. I think they want you to purchase support … can’t blame them, but I’m moving on, likely to eXo.

By: Sateesh

Sateesh — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:11:57 +0000

Hi,

I am planning to use an Open Source Portal Product and after going through all the Reviews it looks like the ones we can consider are

Liferay
eXo
GridSphere
Jet Speed2

I would like to know info reg the following for each of the abve listed Products..

1) How up to date is the Documentation ? Or is the Documentation posted on the Sites is usable at all ??
2) Ease of Use or How Steep is the Learning Curve
3) Few guys complained abt the Architecture on which the LifeRay was built. Could u eloberate on this ..
4) Scalability ..Looks like LifeRay got an Adnvatage then others as many Applications (with huge users) are developed which are live..

Are there any Drawbacks with GridSphere..?

Thanks
Sateesh

By: Javed

Javed — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 07:14:53 +0000

Despite the fact that liferay is best “free” java based tool out there with plenty of applications, there is no documentation available. The website itself has some explination of given portlets but thats it.

I have seen people asking “how to remove the minimize button” without anyone answering.

Wish they write a book on this and make it little easy to work with the tool instead of digging through the code to find how to do something simple….

Also the forums are waist, everyone has a questions but rare answers…

Javed

By: Bryan Cheung

Bryan Cheung — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:42:33 +0000

Hi Apoorv,

Thanks for your favorable review of Liferay. We’re glad you like the product. Let us know what suggestions you might have for improvement.

There’s a list of 3.5’s new features here:
http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/liferay35

And we’ll be adding jsr-170 compliance soon…. did you consider Liferay for your CMS comparison, or dotCMS, which is built on Liferay?

http://www.dotcms.org/

By: Pascal

Pascal — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:50:36 +0000

Hello
Would you mind considering magnolia as well in your comparison. i think jsr-170 and magnolia are import for now and the future.

regards,
founder and head of magnolia organization

By: Punit Pandey

Punit Pandey — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:23:56 +0000

I have updated my post with link to this post.

By: www

www — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:12:28 +0000

Nice overview. Can you include some more OS portals as well?