1.6. Summary

Liferay Portal is an ideal choice for building your web site. Using the unique constructs the platform gives you, you can design a site that can handle any situation you can throw at it. Liferay Portal also offers you an unbeatable platform for building web applications, as well as a ton of applications that are already implemented, in order to help jump-start the creation of your site.

In addition, Liferay Portal frees you from the limitations of the old Java portal standard. As an open source project, it enables you to be as lightweight or as heavyweight as you want to be. And because it provides a multitude of tools and utilities for increasing developer productivity, you can get your site done more quickly.