Specially about "museum of antipatterns" and
"this software lacks quality", best words to describe Liferay.
Liferay is closed-to-extend and unusable, with bunch unusable and just
few useful portlets and fooling beautiful interface and complexity
that make it hard to find out what it really is.

>Portal Server development is not waste of time
I think there is misunderstanding about my words:
Developing a portal server FROM SCRATCH is as much waste of time as
trying to use and/or extend Liferay (may be I'm not correct because
extending Liferay is almost not possible ;-) and I suggest developing
from a well-structured and extensible open source portal instead. As
other guys have pointed Pluto, eXo and JetSpeed are good points to
start (I don't have any experience with StringBeans.)

Also I'm agree with Arash about business model consideration and
"just a flame and is sentenced to vanish" without it. And I doubt
about i-product market place in Iran, that is, producers' product
quality, consumers' real need and the market place foundation.

>afaik there's no good WSRP2 open source project atm. IBM's open
sourced wsrp2j >which was donated to apache  is also inactive atm, and
is crappy anyways!
It was true about WSRP4J until few weeks ago, but now both producer
and proxy portlet are working with a little configuration and I can't
see y u say it's "crappy".