Liferay

Enterprise Architecture

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Liferay uses SOA design principles throughout and provides the tools and framework to extend SOA to other enterprise applications.

The ServiceMix enterprise service bus (ESB) is a central connection manager that allows applications and services to be added quickly to an enterprise’s infrastructure. When an application needs to be replaced, it can be easily disconnected from the bus at a single point. Other open source ESBs such as Mule can also be plugged in.
Support for Web Services makes it easy for different applications in your enterprise to communicate with each other. Java, .NET, and proprietary applications can work together easily because Web Services use XML standards.
Support for REST-style JSON Web Services for lightweight, maintainable code and to support AJAX-based user interfaces.

Security – Liferay uses industry standard, government-grade encryption technologies including advanced algorithms such as DES, MD5 and RSA. Liferay was benchmarked as among the most secure portal platforms using LogicLibrary's Logiscan suite.

Single Sign On – Liferay offers customizable single sign-on with Yale CAS, JAAS, LDAP, Netegrity, Microsoft Exchange, and more. Yale CAS integration is offered out of the box.

Multi-Tier, Limitless Clustering – Cluster Liferay Portal Enterprise at any combination of multiple tiers – presentation, service, business logic, and database – to meet your specific load requirements, one processor at a time. Liferay has also been deployed to Amazon EC2 which uses virtualization and cloud computing technologies to scale dynamically to geographically specific areas of demand.

High Availability – Maintain zero down time for business critical applications with Hardware/Software Load Balancing, HTTP Failover, Session Replication, and Distributed Cache (using Lightweight Multicast Protocol).

Page Caching – Increase web performance with full-page caching for static content.

Dynamic Virtual Hosting – Granting individual community members their own page with a user-defined friendly URL.