What is Liferay? User Guide

To understand liferay we first have to understand about portal,so question arise here what is portal?

Portal is a platform for building websites and also web applications.

This is image of one kind of portal in liferay.

Now,Liferay is one type of CMS based on java . Liferay is open source portal.

Here are the Liferay Features

• Out of the Box tools
• SOA Framework
• Dynamic Drag and Drop
• Secure Single Sign On (SSO)
• Work from Desktop Tools

• Granular Role-Based Authorization
• Search and Tagging
• Communities and Organizations
• Personal User Pages
• Multi-Language Support.

Liferay Development Basic Requirement are as follows

1. Eclipse
2. Tomcat Server
3. Portal Source
4. Plugin SDK
5. 2 GB Ram
6. Any Database(Especially My SQL)

If you want to download Liferay portal then Click on this following Link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files/Liferay%20Portal/6.1.1%20GA2/liferay-portal-tomcat-6.1.1-ce-ga2-20120731132656558.zip