Blogs

Willem Vermeer | May 19, 2016 8:10 PM

While preparing for our annual Dutch Liferay User group meeting I tried to develop a simple MVC portlet accessing the Liferay 7 API. Somehow this took more time than I had expected - probably...

Javeed Chida | May 18, 2016 8:22 PM

If you've been using the Liferay CMS, you are probably familiar with a journal article's Categorization tab wherein you can specify the tags and the categories for the journal article. If you...

Cody Hoag | May 16, 2016 5:37 PM

Our inaugural Community Javadoc Contest officially ended last week, and we received some really good submissions. Luckily, there were two clear-cut winners, so the process of choosing our champions...

Neil Griffin | May 13, 2016 11:01 PM

The Liferay Faces team is moving closer towards the goal of releasing a JSF portlet bridge (and associated demos) for use with Liferay Portal 7.0 CE. Since this new version of the portal utilizes...

Javeed Chida | May 12, 2016 4:33 PM

I recently presented this to a group of non-technical users. The feedback was positive, and made me think this may be useful to others. Why did I make this presentation? I put this little...

Bryan H Cheung | May 3, 2016 7:31 AM

The internet has changed the way we live because it gives everyone an equal voice in a global conversation. No matter who you are or where you live, you can make yourself heard, whether by...

Greg Amerson | Apr 29, 2016 5:10 PM

The latest stable version of Liferay IDE 3.0.0 GA1 that supports Liferay 7 and OSGi/modular development has been released. For those that have installed Liferay IDE stable version, if you are...

Olaf Kock | Apr 22, 2016 5:24 PM

Today I'm welcoming a repeat guest and a new one: Jim Hinkey (of episode 21 fame) and Cody Hoag - both from Liferay's documentation and knowledge management team. This episode has unfortunately...

Javeed Chida | Apr 10, 2016 1:32 PM

I've been busy building web application content. A simple form with three fields Under the form, a table shows the previously added records The data in the table can grow to several hundred Blah...

Bryan H Cheung | Apr 7, 2016 6:55 PM

Today I’d like to let you know that Liferay Portal 7 Community does not have "out of the box" support for clustering, non-open source app servers (Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere), and non-open...

Olaf Kock | Apr 5, 2016 8:18 AM

Yay - Liferay 7 CE is out. As the exploration begins, I'm sure everybody first looks for their pet peeves. There's something that's been nagging me in 6.1 and 6.2 - and unfortunately I couldn't get...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 4, 2016 5:04 PM

Today Liferay released the next version of its flagship software: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE! [Download] [Quick Start] After many months of hard work from the Liferay product and engineering teams...

Neil Griffin | Mar 31, 2016 7:57 PM

The Liferay Faces team has been working hard on a variety of tasks, including: Support for JSF OSGi portlets with Liferay Portal 7.0 CE Maturing the source in our New Git Repositories Finalizing...

Angela Wu | Mar 31, 2016 7:14 PM

Get to the Heart of Customer Experience Customers expect meaningful interaction at every digital touchpoint with your company. How can you align modern technologies with customer interactions in a...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 21, 2016 10:15 PM

A little while ago I ran into a strange problem at a customer. We had written a hook that contained a small REST service that accepts a multipart POST to import a document and some related...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 20, 2016 7:34 PM

After building a hook that wraps the FakeSMTP application and a portlet that gives you file management capabilities in Liferay we now get to part 3 of the series: the CRaSH portlet. I must admit: I...

Olaf Kock | Mar 10, 2016 8:28 PM

Today I'm welcoming a repeat guest, Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering. I've had the great opportunity to ask him a lot of questions that provide deep insight into what's running behind the...

Dennis Ju | Mar 10, 2016 7:03 PM

The Sync team is pleased to announce SSO support in the latest releases of Liferay Sync desktop and mobile clients. Any SSO implementation that works against Liferay Portal will work with Liferay...

Cody Hoag | Mar 7, 2016 1:02 AM

Another Liferay contest is on the way! This one, however, is a bit different than others you may have participated in previously. To celebrate the upcoming release of Liferay 7, we are holding a...

Jan Eerdekens | Feb 29, 2016 9:10 PM

Part 2 of this series is a short, but sweet one. This portlet was born out of a very specific customer requirement: the need to be able to see log files for some user that have Liferay web access,...

Kailash Yadav | Feb 22, 2016 6:42 AM

Caching is important part of any web application. We implement caching for our application on different levels. Generally we cache static resource on web server level and DB level caching on...

Javeed Chida | Feb 19, 2016 8:40 PM

This is not really a technical post. In what follows, I share two little tips for Liferay 6.2 users. This may also be useful to developers, unless you prefer crafting SQL to solve all your data...

James Falkner | Feb 15, 2016 8:39 PM

Over the last 5 years if there's anything I've learned it's that the only thing that doesn't change is change itself. I've been blessed to have been a part of many exciting changes at Liferay and...

Olaf Kock | Feb 15, 2016 10:06 AM

In this episode I'm talking probably one last time to James Falkner about upcoming changes... James was the first guest on Radio Liferay (back in episode 1 - as well as others) and now - at least...

Jan Eerdekens | Feb 14, 2016 8:09 PM

This is part 1 of a series of blog posts about a collection of tools I created during the last couple of months as a reaction to some problems I ran into. The first one is how to handle/debug...

Jan Eerdekens | Feb 6, 2016 10:28 PM

In this post I want to share how you can use Maven to do 2 important things in a Liferay project: patching and creating a deploy package. While this way of patching is a very powerful way to...

Zeno Rocha | Feb 5, 2016 3:53 AM

Back in October when we first introduced Launchpad Developer Preview, we put together a very simple documentation page for users. After seeing how people were interacting with the product we...

Greg Amerson | Feb 3, 2016 6:57 PM

Hello all, I apologize it has taken so long to release a new version of Liferay IDE that supports Liferay 7 development. But today we are pleased to announce the first milestone release for...

Olaf Kock | Jan 26, 2016 10:03 AM

In this episode, recorded at Liferay's Devcon 2015 in Darmstadt/Germany, I'm talking to Scott Nicklous and Neil Griffin. Scott is the specification lead for JSR-362 - otherwise known as the Portlet...

Javeed Chida | Jan 23, 2016 12:06 AM

Content Friendly URL? This is one of those tidbits you get served on a platter if you're lucky enough to attend a Liferay training session. Anyway, content friendly url may not be the legit term,...

Lauri Hiltunen | Jan 19, 2016 4:05 PM

Liferay allows using site specific Google Analytics tracking codes to analyze the traffic inside your portal. Adding the code is simply a matter of going to the site settings and saving the code...

Jan Eerdekens | Jan 17, 2016 8:26 PM

When working with a cluster you pretty quickly come to a point where you want/need to know what cluster node you're on. Liferay already has a simple way to show you this. You just need to add the...

Krzysztof Gołębiowski | Jan 17, 2016 2:22 PM

I recently started working on integrating Liferay with ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana, also known as ELK Stack. Every Liferay developer knows very well where to search for logs and what they...

James Falkner | Jan 14, 2016 9:13 PM

Back in 2012 we began a quarterly program to recognize those of you who have over the years contributed more to Liferay than your average open source enthusiast. Each quarter we recognize the top...

James Falkner | Jan 14, 2016 1:11 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA6! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Meera Prince | Jan 8, 2016 2:44 PM

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) is specification that defines modular based software management and its execution. OSGi makes software management and its execution simpler by making...

Javeed Chida | Dec 28, 2015 6:10 PM

Okay, that is a mouthful. To rephrase my compound title, we'll be talking about an approach that uses search to update a content item that follows a structure tailored to a template that renders a...

Marcos Castro | Dec 28, 2015 5:09 PM

I would like to start saying that this entry is focused on designers and front-ends but I think that it would be useful for all people who wants to know what is the real advantage to applying...

Marcos Castro | Dec 27, 2015 9:14 PM

Hey guys, before this year ends I wanted to share with you some impressions and feedback which many of you have given me about the three free themes I have shared this year. First, I would like to...

Jan Eerdekens | Dec 27, 2015 7:11 PM

If, like me, you work on a non-Windows machine, an Apple MacBook Pro in my case with OSX, you are probably used to having TAB completion in your terminal. I've caught myself multiple times lately...

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 24, 2015 5:47 PM

Just in time to throw a big celebration we finally have achieved Beta status for Liferay 7! As mentioned in a previous blog entry, the criteria to meet Beta status is: Data upgrade finalized for...

Jose M. Navarro | Dec 21, 2015 8:41 AM

Hey everyone! We're celebrating this new year with a new version: Liferay Screens 1.3! Last months we've been busy as crazy helping with our first enterprise projects using Liferay Screens. Some of...

Artur Signell | Dec 20, 2015 2:08 PM

In Vaadin 7.2, server push support was introduced but only for servlet deployments. The initial plan was to add support for portlets "right after that release". That's not exactly what happened but...

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 7, 2015 2:58 PM

You probably have not had time to digest Alpha 3 yet, but here we are again with a new preliminary release: Liferay 7 Alpha 4 is out! This release fixes 82 bugs resolved since Alpha 3 and adds 31...

Ray Augé | Dec 1, 2015 3:03 PM

I really love how everyone at Liferay is taking to the OSGi development model. It makes me proud to see how much work has been done in this regard. There's one very cool area I think is worth...

Matti Tahvonen | Dec 1, 2015 9:47 AM

The Liferay portal has always been a popular basis for Vaadin applications. To serve better this active Vaadin users group we have recently created a lot of new material for both new and existing...

James Falkner | Nov 30, 2015 7:57 PM

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA5! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Olaf Kock | Nov 30, 2015 10:19 AM

I met repeat guest Nate Cavanaugh, Liferay's Director of UI Engineering, at this year's Devcon and he answered all UI-based questions that we could quickly think about - specifically with regards...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 26, 2015 9:24 PM

Here we are again, following our bi-weekly releases plan with our third alpha release. We are still working hard to reach beta status as soon as possible and I would like to use this opportunity to...

Javeed Chida | Nov 25, 2015 8:48 PM

LRNAS2015 was everything I hoped it would be. Every session was packed with demos of upcoming 7.0 features that left anyone using 6.2 very grateful (I was) that they weren't on an even older...

Martin Yan | Nov 25, 2015 12:00 AM

By now, we've heard of the necessity of creating a good experience for our mobile viewers. Yet, we're not always quite sure where to start or what factors should be considered in the process. As a...

James Falkner | Nov 24, 2015 9:33 PM

You may recall back in February 2014 I published a FreeMarker script that would dump variables from WCM and ADT Templates in Liferay 6.2. Well, it's back, this time for Liferay 7! I tweaked it a...

Olaf Kock | Nov 20, 2015 3:15 PM

A continuation of last week's episode, Milen Dyankov stepped in as a co-host and helped me ask the right questions: Ray Augé answers all sorts of questions about the Modularization in Liferay 7 and...

Jason Victor Chang | Nov 16, 2015 11:57 PM

Alright. It's a wrap, folks. It's been my honor to live blog for all of you who were following along. See you at #LRNAS2016! Looking for day 1's coverage? Here you go. 4:23PM - Closing Keynote:...

Martin Yan | Nov 10, 2015 7:00 PM

Why do people go to the Liferay Symposium? This is a common question that has been asked countless times. Of course, if you ask someone at Liferay, our answers might be a little biased... But in...

Matti Tahvonen | Nov 10, 2015 8:06 AM

Service Builder is the way how developers are often encouraged to do DB connectivity with Liferay portlets. It is, though, by no means the one and only way how one can connect to databases from...

Olaf Kock | Nov 9, 2015 11:07 AM

Another Devcon "private" session - I missed his presentations, but got the summary right when he was done: Ray Augé took the time to answer all sorts of questions about the Modularization in...

Martin Yan | Nov 4, 2015 5:50 PM

By now it's obvious that the effects of a poor mobile experience are both immediate and far-reaching for business. A frustrating and not-so-user-friendly mobile interaction with your site could...

Olaf Kock | Nov 3, 2015 3:39 PM

Wow, 50 episodes already. At this year's Devcon I spoke with Jens Bruhn. He's Software Architect at Prodyna AG, a Liferay Partner and the author of Nabucco Script Center, a Liferay App available on...

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 2, 2015 12:38 PM

We continue our path towards releasing Liferay 7 with a new alpha release that focuses on fixing bugs and small improvements. This release fixes 254 bugs since Alpha 1 and adds +100 small...