Blogs

Olaf Kock | Nov 2, 2015 11:44 AM

Hofburg, Wien CC by-nd 2.0 by R. Halfpaap(English summary below) Servus nach Österreich. Mal wieder bin ich auf dem Weg nach Österreich. Aber dieses Mal komme ich nicht alleine angereist: Anlass...

Matti Tahvonen | Oct 30, 2015 10:53 PM

Vaadin portlets initialise using JS and XHRs, typically a couple of milliseconds later than basic html markup based portlets. This approach may cause “flickering”, which may be a bit disturbing if...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 28, 2015 10:43 PM

What a coincidence (or maybe not...) that Doc and Marty landed in the future on October 21, 2015, the date of the Liferay Spain Symposium. Maybe we didn’t see any overboards or self-tying shoes,...

James Falkner | Oct 23, 2015 3:22 PM

Earlier this month Liferay held it's 3rd annual developer conference in Darmstadt, and I was grateful to be able to attend and see old friends, meet new ones, share some of my experiences, and...

Neil Griffin | Oct 20, 2015 3:36 PM

In a blog post from September 2015 titled New Git Repositories for Liferay Faces I mentioned that there would be a new version scheme corresponding to these new repositories. I'm pleased to...

Martin Yan | Oct 19, 2015 6:32 PM

How much do you know about the people who are visiting your website? The more you know, the greater chance you’ll have of reaching them and helping them find what they are looking for. User data...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 18, 2015 10:09 PM

Liferay Developer Conference and Unconference 2015 were simply great. Lots of sessions, games and chances to meet some of the most active Liferay developers. It was also very exciting and...

Olaf Kock | Oct 17, 2015 1:39 PM

It's been a long time and finally... Radio Liferay is back with several episodes in the queue. Today, Tomáš Polešovský starts of by talking about Liferay's security team and -procedures as well as...

Zeno Rocha | Oct 15, 2015 4:53 PM

At Liferay, we're always trying to make the life of developers easier. We're constantly improving our products and releasing new open source libraries. Helping people is what drives us. Last week...

David H Nebinger | Oct 15, 2015 6:32 AM

So I'm here late one night and I'm wondering why Liferay is hosting profile pics... I mean, in this day and age we all have accounts all over the place and many of those places also support profile...

Olaf Kock | Oct 14, 2015 8:01 AM

I'm slowly back to my regular sleep rhythm, after the highly anticipated sleep deprivation week that Devcon always is. Those ~450 participants that were there and made it the biggest and greatest...

James Falkner | Oct 13, 2015 3:21 PM

Next week Liferay España will hold its annual Liferay Symposium in beautiful Madrid. I'm grateful to be able to attend once again, but this year will be especially awesome because of the momentum...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 4, 2015 6:23 PM

Liferay Developer Conference (aka DEVCON) is a great chance for us to meet Liferay developers from all around the world every year. As for the last months we’ve been working on the new version of...

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 30, 2015 4:02 PM

As announced in my last blog post, the period of our milestones has finished and we are getting into the launch field with the release of Liferay 7 alpha 1. We appreciate all the feedback from the...

Martin Yan | Sep 29, 2015 9:49 PM

As a web-based platform, a portal allows users to connect with one another and find content that is relevant with ease and simplicity. It combines information from different sources into a single...

Bryan H Cheung | Sep 28, 2015 9:51 PM

The latest Magic Quadrant report from Gartner on the Horizontal Portal market has just been released, and you can find it here on our website. I just read it through and here’s what I noticed. A...

James Falkner | Sep 28, 2015 3:51 PM

The summer is over and it's time to crown the winners of the 2015 Liferay Screens App Contest! We had some awesome entries in the first ever contest of its kind, but two of them really stood out as...

Olaf Kock | Sep 28, 2015 10:48 AM

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions...

Olaf Kock | Sep 25, 2015 3:19 PM

Do you remember the article that I wrote in March? It talked about Liferay's limitation to have each overloaded JSP only customizable from one hook. The limitation was not enforced, so deploying...

Neil Griffin | Sep 25, 2015 1:41 PM

Multi-Module Projects Developers that are familiar with the version scheme of the Spring Framework will notice that each module has the same version number. For example:...

Martin Yan | Sep 23, 2015 9:41 PM

That's a question we get often when we tell people what we do. Answers can range anywhere from a quick pitch like "a tool that allows people to build their websites" to something more specific like...

Lauri Hiltunen | Sep 23, 2015 4:15 PM

The Expando API is a great tool to add custom data to the default models Liferay offers. We've used it regularly in our projects. Although the concept might overwhelm you at first, there’s no need...

Neil Griffin | Sep 16, 2015 3:55 PM

JavaServer™ Faces (JSF) is one of the standards developed under the Java Community Process (JCP) and was first introduced with Java EE 1.4. The first version of JSF had its share of proponents, but...

Matti Tahvonen | Sep 16, 2015 12:42 PM

The easily customizable, SASS based, Valo theme is one of the largest renewals to Vaadin lately. The vaadin-archetype-liferay-portlet still uses the oldish “liferay” theme, adapted for older...

Abdon Pijpelink | Sep 15, 2015 2:16 PM

Context is king In 1996, when the web was in its infancy, Bill Gates famously predicted that content would be king on the internet. Twenty years later it has become increasingly important to not...

Lauri Hiltunen | Sep 14, 2015 2:04 PM

One of Liferay's more commonly used extension points is the application startup event. You can define custom code to run whenever your plugin is deployed. This is a powerful feature. In this blog...

Neil Griffin | Sep 8, 2015 7:02 PM

On August 3, 2015 the JCP Executive Committee approved the ballot for starting JSR 378: Portlet 3.0 Bridge for JavaServer™ Faces 2.2. This is the first time that Liferay will be leading a JSR and...

Lauri Hiltunen | Sep 8, 2015 5:12 PM

Liferay offers extensive set of features regarding user accounts and signing in to your portal out of the box. Many of the features are made configurable through portal properties, enabling the...

James Falkner | Sep 7, 2015 12:55 PM

My Documents View New Liferay Sync UI Today Liferay released Liferay Sync 3, the latest version of its popular document sharing add-on for Liferay. Download it from the Downloads page, read the...

Marko Cikoš | Sep 4, 2015 9:13 AM

Dear community, As you already know, Liferay Connected Services is an online tool that offers services to help our customers succeed on their Liferay projects. One of its several useful services...

Jan Eerdekens | Aug 30, 2015 7:11 PM

When working with the web content management part of Liferay you quickly start using the Asset Publisher because of its versatility. This portlet enables you to gather and present different kinds...

Meera Prince | Aug 27, 2015 4:30 PM

JQuery Data table is way of present our data at client side and we can show case data and we can perform operations like sorting, update, page nation and many other operations we can perform on...

Olaf Kock | Aug 24, 2015 11:03 AM

It looks like I'll stay on this™ side of the atlantic ocean this year, so I'm concentrating on introducing the big events that I'm attending next and link to the others, in the hope that I'm not...

Jorge Ferrer | Aug 20, 2015 9:44 PM

If you thought August was being a bit boring in terms of news, here we come to spice it up with yet another new milestone release on our road to Liferay 7. And it’s not just any release. This will...

Neil Griffin | Aug 10, 2015 6:09 PM

On August 11, 2015 Liferay released the 6th General Availability (GA) version of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 4.2.5-ga6 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 *NEW* Release Notes (420 Issues) - PrimeFaces...

Iliyan Peychev | Aug 7, 2015 10:36 AM

Those of you who were following the Frontend trends the last two years, would know that there was a big movement toward the next version of JavaScript, previously know as ES6 and now as ECMAScript...

Sampsa Sohlman | Aug 6, 2015 9:03 AM

First of all announcement for Vaadin developers: As from issue LPS-57525 we are not shipping Vaadin with Liferay core anymore. But no worries, Vaadin can be deployed to Liferay 7 as a set of OSGi...

Andrew Jardine | Aug 3, 2015 8:53 PM

My very first blog post. To be honest I've said for months that I was going to start doing this but there just always seems to be something more "urgent". Today I promised someone on the forums...

Dominik Marks | Jul 31, 2015 7:16 AM

Extending Liferay core functionality is rather easy. You can use hook or (if needed) ext plugins to extend the functionality. But what if you want to extend a custom plugin (e.g. one you downloaded...

Dave Truong | Jul 24, 2015 6:48 PM

A little while back, I gave a presentation on a new command line tool that the tooling team was hoping to create to help ease development for Liferay. While we were able to get a working prototype...

Miroslav Ligas | Jul 23, 2015 11:35 AM

Liferay UK will be hosting some dev.live sessions this November 4th prior to our annual conference on the 5th at Thistle Hotel, Marble Arch, London. Get ready for an exciting afternoon with lot's...

Jim Hinkey | Jul 16, 2015 8:28 PM

Do you like conceptualizing and noting important details about Liferay? Do you enjoy explaining terms used in Liferay and in technologies related to Liferay? If so, then it's time you poured this...

James Falkner | Jul 15, 2015 2:13 PM

Here we go again with another crazy summer app contest! This year, to celebrate the release of Liferay Screens, we are holding another community app building contest with some sweet, sweet prizes!...

David H Nebinger | Jul 7, 2015 3:49 AM

Just a quick note... Vaadin 7.5.0 was released at the end of June, 2015. I've completed an initial round of testing, and Vaadin 7 Control Panel version 1.0.3.0 is totally compatible with 7.5.0. ...

Mike Macauley | Jun 30, 2015 10:45 AM

I've been having an ongoing 'discussion' with a good friend of mine about the nature of open source and what constitutes open source. It makes me want to turn it into a proper noun, Open Source,...

Jorge Ferrer | Jun 30, 2015 9:15 AM

Together with the summer season and the sunny days the sixth milestone has come too. We are getting closer to the end of the year, and this will be one of the last milestones so all development...

Shannon Chang | Jun 29, 2015 9:34 PM

This year, Liferay was proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Red Hat Summit in Boston. With over 210 sessions including ones from top executives and developers worldwide, we knew we’d be in for a...

David H Nebinger | Jun 27, 2015 12:48 AM

Let me say that again: Content Creation is Not a Development Activity! Pretty strong statement, but for for those considering Liferay as a platform it's really an important concept, one that lives...

Ken Dong | Jun 24, 2015 7:17 PM

On top of a great product, good leadership has always been a necessity in any successful organization throughout history. But what do people want in a leader? It simply boils down to the fact that...

Martin Yan | Jun 24, 2015 6:11 PM

It's not easy shopping for enterprise portal software. There are many factors to consider such as reliability, long-term costs and the ease of development. Not to mention things like meeting...

Olaf Kock | Jun 23, 2015 9:13 AM

Hofburg, Wien CC by-nd 2.0 by R. Halfpaap Servus nach Österreich. Kurzfristig verschlägt es mich wieder nach Wien und was ist schöner, als sich dort mit freundlichen Menschen zu treffen, die das...

Zeno Rocha | Jun 17, 2015 12:03 AM

Originally published on Medium At Liferay we have more than 600 employees spread in 18 different offices all over the world. Some of these people work with similar stuff but they may not interact...

Martin Yan | Jun 16, 2015 5:47 PM

It might be the most universal and recognizable store in the world. Walk by street corners and chances are you’ll see a bright green sign with the red and orange “7” aglow, beckoning visitors to...

Lauri Hiltunen | Jun 1, 2015 5:45 PM

Sometimes you need to perform actions which relate directly to your Liferay portal and your site structure. In some cases getting the handle on the layout needed might be a bit tricky though. You...

Ken Dong | May 29, 2015 11:19 PM

When 6.2 was first released, there was a lot of buzz surrounding things like responsiveness out-of-the-box, application display templates, updated control panel, and the recycle bin. We heard good...

David H Nebinger | May 29, 2015 8:09 AM

Introduction In my last blog post I had a little rant about the old version of Font Awesome included with Liferay 6.2 and how it would always be out of date because they seem to keep adding new...

David H Nebinger | May 23, 2015 2:12 AM

Introduction So I'm not the best theme person around. I'm less a UI guy and more of an implementation person. Honestly I hate working on themes. Maybe it's just me, but all of the styling work...

Martin Yan | May 23, 2015 12:08 AM

Our experiences with corporate brands and products are rapidly evolving with the influx of new technology. As consumers, we are looking for companies that can provide us more content pertaining to...

David H Nebinger | May 22, 2015 1:32 AM

Introduction So this is a concept that comes up from time to time on the forums - How do I return a non-database complex object from my ServiceBuilder-generated service layer? The common answer is...

Martin Yan | May 20, 2015 7:42 PM

At Liferay, we seek to empower people with the right resources to help them achieve what they could not achieve on their own. We know there are people who possess amazing vision, and some who just...