Re: Liferay portal

Please understand where I am coming from, Nathan. I admit to being an AS/400 bigot. I like the platform and it has given me a good career so far. I love the green screen and its ease of use for everyone. I would love to spend the rest of my career writing subfiles.

But I guess thats not to be. So I went looking. A friend pointed me at Liferay and here are the things I like.
I can use it as is. I can change it. It appears that building themes, colors, and look and feel are manageable and relatively easy to build an inventory for users. It looks like there are a lot of built-in features that would take a single programmer forever to duplicate. Examples would include security, messaging, and calendering. It also looks like building portlets can be done, and they can be added to the application inventory. That appeals to me because I really do want the ability to build new applications without having to rebuild the desktop every time, or have to create every user desktop as a programmer's task.

On the other hand, I haven't been able to do it yet. It says I can, it looks like I can. But it ain't happened.
My real hands-on goal is to have a portal with a portlet that is a snazzy looking graph of something, anything, which is based on i5 data, and automatically changes when the i5 data changes.

I installed the package on my PC and it isn't tedious or slow. My thinking is that the liferay.net server is slow for some reason. Maybe they need bigger pipes or an i5?



Nathan Andelin wrote:

From: Booth Martin
So far I like this product and what it does.

Booth,

I'm curious about what features you like about Liferay aside from the viability of the vendor. I'm interested, partly because I'm the author of a portal that is deployed in K-12 school districts, and I'm currently working on a new version, and could use ideas for new features.

I did take the opportunity to set up a Liferay account and play with its calendaring and a few other features, which I think are nice features. My biggest problem was that the user interface seemed tedious and slow. But what features do you like?

Nathan.



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