Open Source E-Commerce Frameworks for Liferay

Magento

Magento is very popular e-commerce software developed in PHP. Magento offer cloud based services so that we can use magneto very easy. It has very wide verity of Plugins so that we can build e-commerce website as much as easy.

Magento have very good documentation and community support so we can get solutions for any challenge.

It also have enterprise and community edition so that we can enhance and add new features to our application which is built upon Magento framework.

Reference Links

http://www.magentocommerce.com/download

https://github.com/openshift/magento-example

https://www.openshift.com/

Liferay Integration:

Magento offer web services API so that we can integrate with any platform and also we can integrate with liferay.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/api/soap/introduction.html

http://www.componence.nl/Magento

Kona Kart

Kona Kart is very popular java based e-commerce framework. We have community edition and enterprise edition to build e-commerce based websites.

Its java based frame work so we have much flexibility to modify or add new features and we can integrate with any java web applications.

Reference Links

http://www.konakart.com/downloads/community_edition

Liferay Integration:

Kona Kart has direct Liferay portlet so that we can deploy the portlet into liferay portal.

Kona KartPortlet Installation for Liferay

We have Kona Kart liferay portlet in liferay market place we can download and use it.

Kona KartLiferay Portlet

Apache Ofbiz

Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project. By enterprise automation we mean: ERP, CRM, E-Business / E-Commerce, MRP, SCM, CMMS/EAM, and so on. It provides many features and it based on java technology.

http://ofbiz.apache.org/apache-ofbiz-getting-started.html

http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html

http://ofbiz.apache.org/documentation.html

Liferay Integration

Apache OFBiz provides SOAP based web services so we can simply use in any platform similarly we can use in liferay portlet development and we can make e-commerce website in liferay.

CallingOFBiz services from Liferay using SOAP

Broad Leaf

Broadleaf Commerce is an open-source, E-Commerce framework written entirely in Java.

It is targeted at facilitating the development of enterprise-class, commerce-driven sites by providing a robust data and service model, a rich administration platform, and specialized tooling that takes care of core commerce functionality.

Reference Link

http://www.broadleafcommerce.com/docs/core/current/getting-started

Liferay Integration

Broadleaf spring based implementation so there is much possibility to integrate in liferay because we can deploy spring based portlet in liferay portal.

It provides REST based web service we can easily integrate with any platforms along with Liferay.

Broadleaf +Liferay

Note:

It’s my basic analysis which has done so please add your best comments if you have any better choices.

Author

Meera Prince

Liferay Top Contributor Award Winner

http://www.liferaysavvy.com