Liferay Portal Basics

About the Liferay Portal
The Discovery Framework is build upon the Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition.

Liferay Portal features used in the Discovery Framework
This section describes Liferay Portal features that have been incorporated into the Discovery Framework.

About plugins
Plugins are .war files that allow you to add functionality to the Discovery Framework. In the Liferay Portal, portlets, themes, and layout templates are all considered plugins.

Accessing Liferay Portal documentation
Because the Discovery Framework is built upon the Liferay Portal, you can access Liferay's documentation for more information about how to perform various tasks.