What is Liferay Portal? In General a web portal represents a web application that provides a single point of access to variety of information. Functionality of a portal can extend very easily by creating custom applications that can run inside a portal. These applications are called portlet. For running portlet we require application server that can run a portlet container spec (JSR168 or JSR286). There are dozens of free and enterprise portal products available. Liferay portal is an open source portal. Below are benefits of it. 1. Content management system. 2. Workflow 3. Social networking 4. Easy integration with LDAP, Alfresco, Solr, CAS etc. 5. Inbuilt available portlet related with News, Finance, Social, Workflow etc. 6. Compatible with differe...