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.”