I have a legacy web application that I want to enhance by adding a message board. Is is possible to add the message board portlet of liferay into this external application.
I am a newbie so pardon my naivity if I've overlooked something obvious.
Many Thanks
Aman
No this is not possible. Liferay is a portlet container that implements JSR 268 portlet specification. All portlets that can be installed in Liferay conform to this specification.
So, if you have a legacy application, which obviously isn't a portlet container, you can't install portlets into it.
Thank you for your response.
I was wondering if there might be a way to get around this limitation e.g. embed a portlet container inside my legacy (web) application.
I am keen to do this as it will save me months of effort so it is probably worth jumping through some extra hoops.
Embedding a portlet container in your webapp, just for being able to use Liferay's Message Boards (which isn't THAT good anyway), seems like a huge overkill...
In which language is your application written and which framework(s) do you use? Do a Google to see if there are any projects that you can start from or integrate in your app.