We have an application that needs to be built and are looking for some Java based portal framework. In last few days we have gone through over 10 different open source option Liferay, JetSpeed2, GateIn etc.But they are all too complex to be judged so quickly. Can anyone suggest some framework which is ease to use but has the functionality to handle complex situations.Most importantly, the portlets will run Flash/HTML5 content.
Java based portal framework
web development;java
We did a lot of this work, and found out a couple things:Liferay is about the most feature rich of the portlet technologies.  It does support flash/HTML5Portlets in general are hard if you're trying to make a lot of them.Liferay is one of the easiest to setupLiferay is also one of the biggest and hungriest platforms.Short of it is, if I had to use a portal platform, I would use Liferay.  If I could do anything else, I would roll my own (which is what we did).  While the feature set is great, it's not easy to setup dozens of portlets and easily develop/manage them.  I would use a portlet when all I need to do is give a client a wiki and a basic intranet, but not much more.All IMHO. Hope that helps!