Open Source Portal Software

Leading Open Source Portal solutions

Liferay

Liferay Enterprise Portal provides personalizable tools to help organizations communicate and share information more efficiently.

Liferay Enterprise Portal was designed to:

- Provide organizations with a single sign-on web interface for email, document management, message board, and other useful communication tools. Multiple authentication schemes (LDAP or SQL) are pooled together so users don't have to remember a different login and password for every section of the portal.

Drupal

Drupal is an open-source platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes. Equipped with a powerful blend of features and configurability, Drupal can support a diverse range of web projects ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven sites.

uPortal

uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions of higher-education. This group sees an institutional portal as an abridged and customized version of the institutional Web presence... a "pocket-sized" version of the campus Web. Portal technology adds "customization" and "community" to the campus Web presence. Customization allows each user to define a unique and personal view of the campus Web. Community tools, such as chat, forums, survey, and so on, build relationships among campus constituencies.

JBoss Portal

JBoss Portal provides a framework for centralized and secure access to applications and information, which fosters collaboration, streamlines business processes, and reduces costs.

eXo Platform

eXo platform product line: a Portlet Container (JSR 168 + JSR 286 + WSRP2), a Java Content Repository (JCR - JSR 170), an AJAX based Portal (with WebOS layout), a full Enterprise Content Managament (ECM) and a Collaboration Suite

Other Open Source Portal solutions

Ovidentia
PostNuke
Metadot
Jahia

An integrated web content management and corporate portal server; 100% Java based; Available under a collaborative source license (contribue or pay paradigm); Installed in minutes; Easy to use and to administer; Full Multilanguage and I18N support; Staging environement (Draft & Preview mode); Content Workflow; Content Versioning; Document Management (WebDAV Support); Built-in Portlet-based interface; Built-in support for standardized java web applications and web services (default servlets supported as portlets); Full web-based administration; Integrated with the Apache Lucene Search Engin

Red Hat Portal Server

A servlet-based framework for personalized and group-oriented aggregation and delivery of information. Provides access to new and existing applications in an organization's infrastructure and presents the information in a centralized way

Nuxeo CPS (Collaborative Portal Server)

Nuxeo CPS is the collaborative web content management solution for Zope.

Users create and manage content in Workgroups and publish them in Publications spaces (Hierarchies) through a dedicated workflow.

Managers can easily set global and local roles for users (Workgroup Managers, Members, Visitors, Reviewers and Readers).

All actions are available through simple web interfaces.

Nuxeo CPS also features:
office documents integration, indexing and conversion to HTML format;
versioning;
attached comments;
custom workflows (with "point and click" editor interface);
"boxes", also known as "portlets"
interactive services (Mailing-lists);
skinning of hierarchies.

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OmniPortal

OmniPortal was built on the idea of having a web-portal-kernel, that could handle security, themeing, and localization. This means that you can create any web based system on top of OmniPortal (i.e. ERP, CMS, CRM) easily. Mono and .Net is supported.

GridSphere Portal

The GridSphere portal framework provides an open-source portlet based Web portal. GridSphere enables developers to quickly develop and package third-party portlet web applications that can be run and administered within the GridSphere portlet container. Here you will find the GridSphere portal framework available for download and documentation related to the installation and development of portlets using GridSphere.

* Portlet API implementation fully 100% JSR 168 compliant
* Portlet development supported using Java Server Faces (JSF) standard
* Additional Portlet API implementation nearly fully compatible with IBM's WebSphere® 4.2.
* Support for the easy development and integration of new portlet applications
* Higher-level model for building complex portlets using visual beans and the GridSphere User Interface (UI) tag library.
* Flexible XML based portal presentation description can be easily modified to create customized portal layouts.
* Built-in support for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) separating users into guests, users, admins and super users.
* Sophisticated portlet service model that can encapsulate reusable portlet logic into services that may be shared between many portlets.
* Persistence of data provided using Hibernate JDO/OQL for database support
* Integrated Junit/Cactus unit tests for complete server side testing of portlet services including the generation of test reports.
* GridSphere core portlets:
Login, Logout, Locale settings
Profile personalization and Layout customization
Administration portlets for creation of users, groups, portlet management and portal layout customization
* Localization support in the Portlet API implementation and GridSphere core portlets support French, English, German, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Italian and even Arabic and Chinese!
* Open-source and 100% free! :-)

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