Alfresco only or Alfresco + Liferay?????

[txakin]

Hi to all….

I´m new in Alfresco, then i don´t know so much about it.

I would like to create one Web Content Management System to administrate my Web Portal and show diferent contents; and one Document Management Handler to share all kind of documents with all the users in my database (PDF, RTF, DOC, OCR….. + WorkFlow)

I can read some posts, and a lot of people are using Alfresco + LifeRay or Alfresco + JBoss Portal…… does it means Alfresco doesn´t offer one CMS to administrate the Web Portal and only offers one Document Management Handler…….or if i integrate Alfresco with LifeRay or JBoss Portal i will get more options?????

I would like to know which one will be the best option, before i will start to make my application. I would like to know too, which are the pros and the problems i can find…..

Thanks in advance, and i wait your help.

[kvc]

Not 100% certain what requirements you mean to meet within the context of 'adminstering the web portal' and 'one document management handler'.

That said, Alfresco provides a full-featured web client that is easily extended and customized using any combination of web scripts (lightweight, scriptable (Javascript, PHP) actions and ui components), freemarker templates, custom jsp pages, and more.  If you are looking for a complete environment for end-users to manage and collaboration on documents and publishing and maintain websites, our web client is a great option.

If you are deploying Alfresco as one more enterprise application to be aggregating as a component in an overall web page that an employee, customer, or partner accesses to get a personalized dashboard view into your enterprise application and data, then either a JBoss portal or Liferay portal provides the complete framework for building and managing web pages composed of standard JSR-168 portlets.  Alfresco content and services can be exposed via web scripts into a JSR-168 container - and the sample web scripts provided with 2.1 showcase this nicely with both Liferay and JBoss.

Hope that helps.  I recommend downloading and evaling the product and reading our documentation on our wiki thoroughly, or contacting info@alfresco.com for any detailed product walk-through.


Kevin