Blogs

Ray Augé | Sep 22, 2010 2:23 PM

When should you use a debugger during development? At ALL times! At least that's my view. Isn't that a hassle? Well debugging sure can be, but if you setup your environment in a specific way, it...

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 22, 2010 10:40 AM

As you have probably already noticed we've just made public a quite large revamp of our documentation. This is the result of a project that has taken several months and has involved gathering...

Greg Amerson | Sep 21, 2010 10:01 AM

Early this month I was able to visit with many in the Liferay community at the West Coast Symposium. I had a great time discussing some of the issues and hearing some concerns of our users with...

Brian Kim | Sep 20, 2010 2:34 PM

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending our very first "Roadshow", which was hosted together with our partner Dunn Solutions Group at the Willis Tower in Chicago. As part of our releasing...

Igor Spasić | Sep 19, 2010 12:00 AM

When Liferay portal is deployed in WebSphere 7, it is possible to use JConsole to connect to the app server and monitor the portal. You need two files: (1) wm-jmx.bat @echo off :: user...

Richard Sezov | Sep 18, 2010 3:44 AM

This has been a long time coming, and could not have been done without the help of a whole team of people, but we have finally done a redesign of the documentation pages on this site. Our previous...

Ray Augé | Sep 16, 2010 2:21 PM

So my last blog post involved a classloader trick for velocity but it also involved a problem of dynamically listing article fragments on a page. Now, there are a few ways to do this, but the two...

Ray Augé | Sep 16, 2010 2:00 PM

Recently I was asked to solve a WCM dynamic Template problem which involved listing articles using the business logic of the template. One of the first problems I encountered was of course doing a...

Greg Amerson | Sep 15, 2010 8:12 PM

The latest version of Liferay IDE version 1.1 has just been released to the update sites. To see a list of the new features and improvements take a look at the Liferay IDE 1.1 New and Noteworthy....

Joshua Asbury | Sep 14, 2010 5:02 PM

Over the next couple of weeks, Liferay and our partners are going to present a series of roadshows around the country. With the recent release of Liferay 6 EE, we want to provide our customers a...

Jonas Yuan | Sep 14, 2010 12:24 AM

The portal provides a framework to add custom attributes or called custom fields to any Service-Builder generated entities at runtime where indexed values, text boxes, and selection lists for input...

Paul Hinz | Sep 11, 2010 1:08 AM

Liferay 6EE is complete and was launched at Liferay's West Coast Symposium. It should be obvious now we were purposely quiet leading up to this launch but now with the hood off, there are several...

Julio Camarero | Sep 7, 2010 3:51 PM

(See English version below) En octubre se celebrará en Málaga (España) el Open Source World Conference, una de las conferencias más importantes en materia de software libre a nivel europeo. Desde...

Igor Spasić | Sep 7, 2010 2:00 PM

These are some quick steps how to use Derby DB with Portal 6. (1) Prepare Portal Database This shall be done only once. + modify derby/bin/ij.bat by adding: set...

satya ranjan | Sep 6, 2010 3:59 PM

If you are a NetBeans user and always wanted to try Portal Pack with latest NetBeans 6.9 and LIferay 6, here is the good news. So there is a new version Portal Pack 3.0.4 available at Portal Pack...

Jonas Yuan | Sep 4, 2010 4:50 PM

In previous blogs post, we had discussed applying workflow on Liferay portal core assets. It is true that Liferay 6 integrates workflow system like jBPM or Kaleo on any assets, either core assets...

Igor Spasić | Sep 3, 2010 10:18 AM

Liferay portal can be deployed to many app servers. Cool thing is that from version 6 there are ant targets for downloading and preparing app server of your choice. (1) Download and prepare app...

Igor Spasić | Sep 1, 2010 8:00 PM

By default, liferay themes uses velocity templates. For example, classic theme (.../tomcat-6.0.x/webapps/ROOT/html/themes/classic/templates) uses several (*.vm) velocity templates. But Liferay...

Igor Spasić | Sep 1, 2010 2:43 PM

I use IntelliJ IDEA for portal and plugins development. Also, I currently experiment with different project configuration and, therefore, have IntelliJ module files (*.iml) everywhere. For now, I...

Mika Koivisto | Sep 1, 2010 3:32 AM

That's a question I've head many times and in this post I will show you just how to do that. These instructions are for Liferay 6 CE GA3 Tomcat 6.0 bundle however you can use any app server...