Sun and Liferay, Inc. are developing a common, open source, standards-based Web presentation platform under the Sun/Liferay Initiative that will combine technologies from both companies to enhance and maintain web aggregation and presentation technologies.

Liferay Portal 5 and Sun\'s Project Web Synergy are the first version of the new product families resulting from this initiative. Both are derived from the same codebase. The common codebase will be managed by the Liferay community with Sun as a committer and governance board member of the project.

Sun reports its new platform will provide customers and Web developers with the following features:

• Multi-language support: Integrates Ruby, PHP or Java technology into a single pageview.
• Widget syndication: Easily syndicates widgets using REST technologies. For example, an end user will be able to easily incorporate a hosted widget, such as flight schedules or weather reports, into a Web page with a simple point and click.
• Workflow API: Builds human workflow applications using standards.
• Simplification of page development and maintenance in Web-oriented architectures: Leverages widgets and gadgets from multiple language types.
• Flexibility of licenses: Sun distributions will be available under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) and the Liferay distributions will be available under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) license.

More products and services based on the commonly developed open source platform are planned. Products resulting from this initiative will bring developers simple, lightweight presentation capabilities for Sun's open source Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server, GlassFish, Sun reported.

"The GlassFish community continues to grow and demand open source, enterprise-class solutions. Our association with Liferay and its great platform is an example of multiple communities and partners working together to deliver on the Java software community's requests," said Mark Herring, vice president of marketing, Software Infrastructure, Sun. "As Sun's involvement in open source expands, customers and developers can expect to see new models of collaboration within open source software communities in an effort to drive adoption of interesting technologies."

The Liferay community is leveraging the open source Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and Portlet Container (JSR 286 - portlet specification 2.0) implementations from the Sun sponsored Open Portal Community. All three products -- Sun's new platform for collaborative Web site design, Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 and Liferay Portal 5.0 -- utilize the same Portlet Container and WSRP implementations. Liferay has added support for OpenSSO, a Sun-sponsored open source project that enables single sign-on capabilities and simplifies Portal access for users. Liferay has also certified the Liferay Portal 5.0 to run on GlassFish, the MySQL database server, the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), and Sun hardware, such as the Sun Fire X2100 M2 server.

Learn more about the Sun/Liferay Initiative by visiting the frequently asked questions page. [...read more...]

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