Liferay Portal : How different from Websphere Portal

Question

Hi Guys,

I have worked with Websphere Portal 6.0,6.1 and developed portal applications usign JSR 168,JSR 286 Portlets.

Now I am moving to project where I will be working with Liferay portal server and JSR 168,JSR 286.

I know that as per programming interface (JSRs) It will be the same. But want to know what are the major difference at server level ( features,configuration,architecture, out-of-box services) when compared to Websphere Portal ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,

Liferay also supports JSR168 and JSR286 portlets, so in respect to that you can use the same API's as you are using in WebSphere Portal. The product itself cannot be easily compared to WPS as they both have different concepts. Liferay doesn't have a credential vault, for example, but it still supports SSO (NTLM or CAS). Your WebSphere Portal knowledge won't help you much in Liferay development, as it is a totally different product.