Re: FreeMarker library page addition

I like that text Daniel. Feel free to use it.

As for complaints, quite honestly, we don't have that many :)

This speaks highly of it's usability and reliability.

I would say that mainly they would be classed in these areas (remember that
the frequency of these are VERY low.. I may here of these less than once or
twice per year):

- performance and memory management: our performance gurus sometimes bring
it up but this is when they really have very little else to complain about,
i.e. they will always have something to complain about, but generally there
are much more legitimate ones than freemarker. So here it would be extreme
like: "freemarker is not as fast as pure java.."

- development and tooling. While there are pretty decent tools, they aren't
very advanced, and debugging and is quite difficult. I think this has even
been discussed here already in several threads so I wouldn't consider it as
not already covered

- integration with JSP taglibs: (very important for us) the need for
freemarker syntax for taglibs means porting from jsp is tedious.

Also, I can pass this question onto our product management team/community
leader and ask them if they have/or could collect any feedback on it.

Sincerely,
- Ray


On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:

> It should be around 500 chars, and one paragraph. Also it should tell
> what it uses FreeMarker for. Something like:
>
> Liferay Portal is one of the most widely adapted enterprise portal
> solutions. It's free and open source with optional enterprise
> subscription. It leverages existing technologies and standards in its
> stack where reasonable. It has strong focus on modularity,
> extensibility, and integration with other systems. Core services
> include Enterprise Content Management, document management, workflow
> integration, users/roles, web publishing. Entire portals may be built
> solely using the web UI and available components. It uses FreeMarker
> for themes, page layout, fragments of structured content, email,
> portlet views, code generation.
>
> BTW, as it uses FM for so much things, it would be good the hear about
> what are the most frequent complains. (I think I have a pretty good
> picture after 10 years of FM support (and much little time to fix
> them, sadly), but still...)
>
> --
> Thanks,
>  Daniel Dekany
>
>
>
> Wednesday, July 16, 2014, 10:32:22 PM, Raymond Auge wrote:
>
> > How's this (redacted from a much more sales-y text).
> >
> > "Liferay Portal is the leading open source web portal platform.
> > Used in nearly every industry and widely adopted by the world’s
> > leading enterprises for a broad set of solutions.
> >
> > Liferay Portal, which began as an open source project in 2001, is a
> > Java-based web development platform that can be used to meet a wide set
> of enterprise needs, such as:
> >
> > ·         Personalized Websites
> > ·         Self-Service Portals
> > ·         Online Communities
> > ·         Franchised Business Portals
> > ·         Role Based Websites
> > ·         Collaboration / Coordination Websites
> >
> > Applications range in size from intranet work group solutions to
> > multimillion-user websites.  Liferay is also used to power
> > innovative, rich UI websites as well as for highly secure,
> > mission-critical financial and government installations.  Due to the
> > platform’s agility and strong support for industry innovations and
> > standards, Liferay Portal is also highly regarded by developers,
> > software architects and administrators.
> >
> > Liferay Portal’s lightweight platform includes multiple core
> > services out-of-the-box, along with the ability to extend or enhance
> > services and to integrate with external systems.  The core services
> > include portal, web content management, document management,
> > application integration and social collaboration."
> >
> > - Ray
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Tuesday, July 15, 2014, 10:05:35 PM, Raymond Auge wrote:
> >
> >> Liferay Portal (www.liferay.com) uses freemarker extensively for many
> generations now, for:
> >>
> >> - themes (look and feel of entire site)
> >> - layout templates (page structure)
> >> - web content (fragments of structured content)
> >> - entity templates (customizing entity application views)
> >> - email template
> >> - portlet views
> >> - service builder (Liferay's code generation framework)
> >
> > I show Liferay happily on http://freemarker.org/poweredBy.html if you
> > allow that. You should give a product description that you want to see
> > there (500 characters or less).
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >  Daniel Dekany
>
>
>
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 (@rotty3000)
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