Asset management

The portal has a set of built-in assets, called portal core assets. And the portal also provides a framework in which custom assets can be plugged through plugins easily. We have introduced a set of core assets like polls, bookmarks, message boards, announcements, shared calendar, blogs, wiki, in the previous section. In this section, we are going to introduce more portal core assets and typical custom assets.

Software Catalog

The Software Catalog portlet allows building a catalog of software products and making them available to the visitors of the site. The software catalog covers a set of features like license management, framework management, ratings, tagging, screenshots, ability to specify a direct download link or a download page, allowing users to register their products, tracking of product versions, export of liferay-plugin-repository.xml for the whole repository, integration with permission system, and so on.

As shown in the following diagram, the software catalog...