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In August 2012, Liferay have officially launched their Liferay Marketplace to this world. Where, The Liferay Marketplace is an application store which designed specifically for Liferay users. A Liferay Marketplace initial is announced in May 2012 at the East Coast Symposium. Liferay, Inc. is a provider of open source portal and also leads in enterprises. This enterprise has offers more than 70 applications for enterprises use. Independent software vendors (ISVs) and other developers are requested by Liferay to begin build their application for Liferay Marketplace during a launching of Liferay Marketplace.

As the third party, the ISVs will support Liferay in creating the application as the next stage of Liferay step in developing Liferay Marketplace. ISVs will develop additional function of Liferay application in transaction and payment processing functionality. The availability of Liferay application in the market is an essential step for Liferay, in present high access to their user around this world. Additionally, Liferay Marketplace provides ISVs a new distribution channel in presenting their enterprise application to a global audience that includes over 500,000 deployments of the Liferay platform around the world.

Liferay application was able accepted the concept of application store from others application provider, such as Microsoft and Cisco. Instead of the concept of consumer space, Liferay was rising as a fixture of the enterprise user. In addition, people who are often used other application and opens Alfresco, will recognize Alfresco as a solution for their customer in finding and acquiring platform extensions. Liferay application have a simple application with its one-click capability to others application provider, especially customer who use a phones or their tablet.

As a formal Liferay Marketplace site, this site provides a dozens of application, templates, and themes. This market place content will support Liferay customer in expanding and straighten Liferay implementation. Presently, Liferay Marketplace site is providing application browsing based on their category or searching according its keywords.

       
                             Liferay Marketplace site page

In Liferay Marketplace, visitor/ user will able to find the most popular application or detail information of application. ISVs have committed to providing their innovative application for Liferay Marketplace application store. In addition, instead of searching based on the keywords or the category, the customer was able review Liferay application and also downloads this application from public repository. Then, the user can runs this application, after installing this application in their local portal or Liferay portal. Therefore, it will adapted and broaden operation for Liferay user, simple and fast processing in technical or non-technical for the user.

Liferay's Chief Software Architect, Brian Chan, stated that, “Liferay Marketplace supports multiple goals we have wanted deliver over the last few years.”. Additionally, Liferay Marketplace is a solution for Liferay user in saving their times and their cost. "It greatly enhances our customers’ abilities to extend their existing web solutions in a manner that saves them on time and the costs associated with solution upgrades. Also, in keeping with Liferay’s longstanding commitment to creating value for the open source community, Liferay Marketplace aims to make it easier for a larger community of developers to share and distribute innovations as easily consumable modular applications.”, Chan said.

Liferay application store is not only for personal use, but this market place is also a place for the software vendor and Liferay developer in exhibit and sells their application functionality in developing for the portal. Application in market place must be running in Liferay 6.1 or later. Liferay carry out validation process to application component, before this application is publish for the customer. These validations are:

•    Checking by basic antivirus or malware

•    Clear application title, description, image or etc

•    Testing Functionality (basic test)

Even Liferay have performs for the malware checking, Liferay is does not guaranteed on malware free or pass the security standard procedure. However, this problem is not exclusive in Liferay application store. Organization in Liferay development and application validation function is expected not introducing any security issues.

“The Liferay Marketplace allows anyone to have their applications be seen and deployed by our users around the world,” Chan said. “We believe this will allow Liferay and the Liferay community to deliver more innovations faster than ever before to enterprise customers.”