Blogs

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...

Jyri Pötry | Sep 7, 2015 9:50 AM

How Liferay and Valamis solve regulatory compliance Companies today are facing an increasing number of regulations and need for transparency in their operations. Consequently, organizations are...

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...

Igor Beslic | Sep 2, 2015 3:11 PM

Recently LCS team had really hard time with writing integration tests for service builder generated classes. Arquillian test patterns written for core portal plugin simply didn't work for our case...

Kamesh Sampath | Aug 31, 2015 4:33 PM

Today I was trying to enable SSL with NGINX as Load Balancer for a demo Liferay cluster, I thought to share my experiences on how I did that with this small post. I am skipping the certificate...

Milen Dyankov | Aug 31, 2015 10:04 AM

Looking at Liferay 7 Milestone 7 download stats, it seams many have tried it already. Yet considering the size of the community, the numbers are not that impressive. I'm pretty sure it's not...

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...

Eric Kirby | Aug 27, 2015 8:07 PM

Everyone wants their systems to be highly available, and for good reason. The age-old adage “time is money” has never been more true than in today’s interconnected world. Companies clamor to make...

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...

Eric Kirby | Aug 19, 2015 3:06 PM

If you are struggling to choose the right web platform for your project, you’re not alone. There are many options to choose from, each claiming to be better than the rest. How do you choose for...