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Chapter 1. The Liferay difference > How Liferay structures a portal
1.3. How Liferay structures a portal
Every portal is different in the way it handles users, security, and pages. Because these aspects of a portal aren’t covered by the JSR-286 standard, every portal vendor has implemented these concepts differently. If you’re going to start developing on Liferay’s platform, you’ll need to understand how a Liferay portal is configured and organized. Don’t worry: it’s not all that complicated, although it may look that way at first. When you start using the system, you’ll get the hang of it quickly.
Liferay 6.0 and Liferay 6.1Liferay 6.0 has organizations and communities; Liferay 6.1 has organizations and sites. In the following discussion, I mention organizations and communities quite a bit. If you’re on Liferay 6.1, everything I say about communities applies to sites. Organizations don’t have pages in 6.1, but sites can be linked to organizations. Sites linked like this in 6.1 are essentially the same as organizations in 6.0. For this reason, the terminology is interchangeable. All 6.1 does is give you a little more flexibility. |
