Liferay DXP is a lightweight open-source enterprise portal that has gained recognition for meeting modern business needs with lower initial costs and compliance with industry standards. It offers advanced features such as modularization, enhanced forms capabilities, and easy integration with UI frameworks, though it is not ideal for small applications and lacks comprehensive documentation. Despite some shortcomings, Liferay DXP is positioned as a powerful solution for growth-oriented enterprises.

1. Liferay DXP – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

2. Intro
Since its high note inception; the lightweight open source enterprise portal Liferay
has been successfully manifesting its capability of addressing the modern era
business requirements. Its latest version Liferay DXP has assured beyond
expectation delight form users, industries and developers. As a result, Liferay has
secured the prestigious place in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Horizontal
Portals.

3. The Good

4. The Best to Begin With
• Liferay DXP runs with the organization’s existing IT environment at
remarkably lower initial costs
• It complies with and helps in defining new industry standards. – Liferay
DXP Portal is compliant with all key industry standards (JSR-286, JSF-314,
JSR-170, WSRP and JBI) and participated as a member of the “Portlet 2.0″
specification committee
• Capable enough to get transpired as the optimum solution focused on
search-enabled Content management and tactful knowledge management
along with flawless user experience

5. Modularization
• Due to support for OSGi modular based environment, modularization
always has been one of the most significant and impactful aspect of
Liferay DXP framework.

6. • The development process is easy with enhanced performance of the
application
• Document storages has been extracted as modules such as Advanced
Filesystem, CMIS, DB, Filesystem, JCR and S3 for better management

7. Higher Forms capabilities
Advance capabilities of forms such as:
• Possibilities to split the form into multiple pages and originating the
wizard- like forms
• Ability to control the form layout and enablement of workflow for the
particular form
• Ability to populate a form dropdown (i.e. a Select field) with a REST Data
Provider

9. • Flexibility to add Geo-location metadata not only to web contents or data
lists but also to documents and media via Asset Publisher. Alloy editing is
enabled for much user friendly and bug free editing. Templates are being
supported for different modules that help the users in customization

11. • Easy integration with Bootstrap 3 and other UI development frameworks
leading to less code and more responsiveness ability for mobile first
approach

12. The Bad

13. The Bad
This highly acclaimed and much appreciated Digital experience platform itself
does not have any major negative aspects. It depends on the requirements of
proposed technology solution.
• It is not the right solution for small size applications
• It is not the right portal solution, if your application does a little various forms
of contents

14. The Ugly

15. The Ugly
• The little ugly side of Liferay DXP portal is lack of documentation and
knowledge resources despite of active and efficient communities. This
area is being worked upon though.
• Clustering feature is not available for community edition as of now, Liferay
has announced to add it in near future though

16. Conclusion
All in all, after the noteworthy enhancements of Liferay DXP have made this
technology sufficient enough handle the modern day technological
requirements as an enterprise portal solution. But, in IT sector, even the sky
cannot be limit for further up gradations. After working with it for more than
a decade, I look forward to Liferay DXP as a profoundly capable technological
driving force for growth oriented enterprises.

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http://www.azilen.com/blog/liferay-digital-experience-platform-dxp/

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