Liferay as Document Management

In my previous post i highlighted strengths of Alfresco as document management tool. One might be tempted to use Liferay on its own as document management. This may serve well if your requirements are very basic, as saving to particular folder structure. for anything serious its recommended to use liferay with Alfresco.

Below are some key point

1. Liferay Document management is pretty basic. It provides repository that you can add document to, remove document or upload a new version.
2. There is a portlet to display documents (with a preset set of properties that you can only configure by changing the code). If you need more things out of doc. management you would better off with Alfresco.
3. A common way to use Alfresco with Liferay is to manage the content in Alfresco and have workflows that publish the content to some type of file store from which Liferay can pull the content. The main reason for doing this is to be able to use Alfresco's CIFS and WebDAV interfaces, which are really useful and not matched by Liferay's broken webdav implementation. In the future, the processing rules you can attach to a folder in Alfresco will also be useful, and are not present in Liferay