Chapter 1. Liferay Enterprise Portal

As the world's leading open source portal platform, Liferay is the market's leading provider of open source portal, web publishing, content, social and collaboration enterprise solutions, providing a unified web interface to data and tools scattered across many sources. Within Liferay, a portal is composed of a number of portlets, which are self-contained interactive elements that are written to a particular standard. Dynamic, content-rich, social systems could be built quickly and easily on top of Liferay Portal.

Liferay was created in 2000 to provide an enterprise portal solution for non-profit organizations. In 2004, the company was incorporated under the name Liferay. In 2011/2012, Liferay was going to bring several enhancements and new features such as an improved document library (renamed as document and media library), Dynamic Data Lists (DDL), Dynamic Data Mapping (DDM), setup wizard, mobile device enhancements, multiple repository mounting and apps store (called marketplace).