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Liferay 6.1 Community Edition

Thank you for choosing Liferay Portal. This release further expands Liferay's ability to be used in an extremely broad range of applications for web sites, portals, and collaboration services. Remember Liferay Portal is built by and for a very large open community. Be sure to participate by contributing back to the Liferay Community.

Contents

  1. Features
  2. Community Resources
    1. Installation and Documentation
    2. Liferay Online Community
    3. Bug Reporting
  3. Enterprise and Mission Critical Deployments
  4. Licensing and Trademark

I. New Features

Liferay Portal 6.1 includes many new features targeting end users (power users), systems administrators and developers for enterprise deployments. Each area includes multiple features designed to support the most complex deployments. Liferay includes a web content management and document repository with multiple collaboration services all wrapped up in a portal framework. These features combine to allow Liferay to support an extremely broad range of use cases. See the full list of new features here on the Liferay 6.1 New Features Wiki Page.

II. Community Resources

Find information, participate in discussions and contribute back to the community at: Liferay.org. Be sure to "Like" Liferay on Facebook to collaborate with others and to find people in your field or specialty who are also using Liferay. Also be sure to "Follow" us and the community on Twitter which uses TweetRay to repost all tweets from the community who use the tag #Liferay.

  1. Documentation and Installation
      2. Liferay Portal Administration Guide
    1. A quick installation guide is available on the Liferay Wiki.
    2. Documentation for Liferay is available on Liferay.com as well as from online publishers.
    3. Liferay in Action is available from Manning Publications and includes a definitive review of many Liferay features and capabilities.
  2. Online Collaboration: Forums and Wikis
    1. Go to Liferay.org to search for answers within the forums, to post answers for others, and to find online reference materials in the Wiki section.
  3. Bug Reporting
    1. While the Liferay Community cannot ensure all reported bugs will get fixed or receive a response right away, contributing bug information to Liferay supports everyone and is one of the most valuable ways you can contribute back to the Liferay Community. If you find a bug, or see the need for a new feature, please log as much information as possible into a new ticket at: http://issues.liferay.com.
  4. Sample data (7Cogs)
    1. Liferay 6.1 CE includes a sample website with applicable content to showcase some of the most important features within Liferay Portal. This includes a fictitious company called 7Cogs, its web data, several users and example applications. The sample is completely built using Liferay Portal features and can be (and should be) removed before using Liferay for your implementation.
  5. Removing the Sample Data (7Cogs)
    1. The 7Cogs sample can be completely removed from your installation using the following steps:
      1. Log into Liferay as administrator and go to:
        1. Control Panel > Plugin Installation
        2. Search for 7cogs-hook
        3. Remove 7cogs-hook
        4. Note: Some application servers may not support hot undeply using this method. In those cases, follow the instructions of your app server to undeply the 7cogs-hook.war file.
      2. Stop the Liferay Portal server
      3. Delete the data in your database or point to a new database
      4. Restart Liferay Portal server
      5. Use a browser to access the server and login using the following credentials:
        • E-mail: test@liferay.com
        • Password: test

      After following this instructions you'll have a fully functional Liferay Portal installation with several default users.

III. Enterprise and Mission Critical Deployments

  1. Preparing for Production
    1. Liferay can be used in a variety of mission critical deployments. While Liferay CE meets many of the most demanding requirements, the following should be considered and evaluated prior to deployment.
      1. Review the following white papers:
        1. Advanced Liferay Architecture: Clustering and High Availability
        2. Liferay EE Reference Architecture & Hardware Requirements
        3. LPEE 6.0 Deployment Checklist
        4. Liferay Application Integration Strategies
        5. Identity Management in Liferay – Overview and Best Practices
      2. Request a review of Liferay's deployment services:
        1. Liferay Quickstart Program
        2. Liferay GoLive Program
      3. Liferay Enterprise Support Program
        1. Review Liferay's Enterprise support program, which provides access to LESA (online support system).
      4. Liferay Professional Support Program
        1. As Liferay Portal is used in an extremely broad range of use cases, Liferay provides professional services engagements for Liferay Portal EE to support many services such as, installation, customization, application development, integration, life-cycle management and more. Find out more on Liferay.com.

IV. Licensing and Trademark

  1. Liferay is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) which defines the conditions for its use and extension. The Liferay Community supports the use of this license to ensure the further advancement of this technology for the betterment of the entire community. We strongly recommend all members of the community who use or support Liferay deployments to contribute back to the community itself through any of the available programs at Liferay.org. This can include everything from answering questions on the forums to contributing code to the community or Liferay Marketplace to purchasing Liferay EE. Each has a value that benefits the entire community.
  2. The Liferay Trademark includes the logo and name Liferay. Its use is governed by the Trademark policy posted at: Liferay.com/Trademark. When using Liferay in any form, this policy should be reviewed to understand if your use requires permission from the Liferay community manager.
  3. License Declaration:

    This library, Liferay Portal Community Edition, is free software ("Licensed Software"); you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; including but not limited to, the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGEMENT, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

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