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Auditya manikanta Vadrevu | Oct 23, 2008 5:53 AM

Announcements/Alerts portlet Through this portlet we can send Announcements/alerts to different types such as Guests, Organisations, Communities, User Groups, Roles and General (already known and...

Mahipalsinh Rana | Oct 17, 2008 8:49 AM

I would like ot share my finding about I18n and L10n in Liferay. I have created blog entry at my personal blog site. How to do Internationalization(I18n) and Localization(L10n) in Liferay...

Neel Haldar | Oct 16, 2008 7:09 PM

If you have been using the wol portlets you must have noticed that there is no easy way to invite a friend. Currently the way to invite a friend is to go to his/her public profile page and click on...

JR Houn | Oct 9, 2008 5:52 PM

Hi Everyone - Back again for my quarterly Selenium update. First of all - a very big and hearty thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in and has helped in testing and building up Liferay....

Brian Kim | Oct 9, 2008 1:48 PM

It's only appropriate for there to be an entirely new look for a pair of new products, no? As I stated at the Liferay European Symposium, Liferay is evolving. We've grown a lot from the small, open...

Nate Cavanaugh | Oct 9, 2008 5:21 AM

Hi all, it's been a while since I've blogged, and there has been good reasons. Liferay is taking off and we are growing like crazy, and as such, I've gotten less time to blog. But there has been a...

Ray Augé | Oct 7, 2008 5:27 PM

Lately, Liferay has been following a trend toward externalizing extensibility features as much as possible. The traditional EXT model, while powerful, often proves too complex for many situations,...

Michael Young | Oct 6, 2008 9:26 PM

A number of important issues have been addressed. 5.1.2 is a highly recommended upgrade. Highlights include: LDAP Synchronization and Authentication JSR 286 Conformance Transaction (Spring Tx)...

Michael Young | Oct 3, 2008 11:52 PM

If you went to the Los Angeles Meetup in August or the European Symposium last week, you already have a leg up on some of our upcoming offerings: Liferay Enterprise Edition and Liferay Social...

Mika Koivisto | Oct 3, 2008 9:37 PM

You've been heard! Out of box SiteMinder integration is here. Computer Associate’s (CA) SiteMinder is a centralized web access management system that enables user authentication and single sign-on,...

Neil Griffin | Sep 30, 2008 2:18 PM

UPDATE: March 17, 2011 This blog post refers to an old version of ICEfaces (1.8). I would encourage you to try out the ICEfaces 2 versions of these portlets here:...

Brian Chan | Sep 28, 2008 9:01 AM

Thanks to everyone who came to the European symposium. It was extremely fun and enjoyable! Here are some pictures and a summary of what happened. Here's Bryan Cheung giving his talk about how the...

Ray Augé | Sep 23, 2008 7:36 PM

Update (Feb 1, 2011): The default permission algorithm from version 6.0+ is now 6. It uses a fast bitmask persistence implementation of RBAC and is functionally equivalent to 5. However, there is...

Ray Augé | Sep 23, 2008 7:32 PM

Recently I was again asked how to call a more complex Liferay service using XSL. Here is an example of getting CalEvents from XSL and printing the list. The first thing you might find is that the...

Michael C. Han | Sep 18, 2008 2:45 PM

Late last year, we started the process of upgrading our performance testing environments. Our previous performance environment were basically desktops with limited CPU and memory. The latest...

Jonas Yuan | Sep 12, 2008 8:05 PM

LIFERAY is shining in building dynamic, content-rich and ad-serving web sites: Sesame Street and Sesame Workshop. http://www.sesamestreet.org (Sesame Street) http://www.sesameworkshop.org (Sesame...

Ray Augé | Sep 12, 2008 5:36 AM

Recently my friend Journal VM Template was feeling a little down in the dumps because of his lack of ability when it comes to handling XML content. He was feeling inferior to Journal XSL Template...

Richard Sezov | Sep 9, 2008 5:12 PM

I am pleased to announce the availability of the Liferay Administrator's Guide, Second Edition. The Guide has now been exhaustively gone through and updated to support Liferay 5.1 (and below). But...

Scott Lee | Sep 5, 2008 5:05 PM

Here are some screenshots for the new mail portlet. You can check out jerry's post on how to install the mail portlet. It is as simple as clicking around in the plugins installer. The mail...

Jerry Niu | Sep 4, 2008 9:42 PM

With Liferay 5.1, we introduced a new Mail Portlet. Here are instructions on how to add it Start by getting to the "Plugins Installer". You'll see that the Mail Portlet is one of the options. ...

Sang Baek | Sep 4, 2008 3:05 AM

Liferay Southeast Asia takes place in the beautiful coastal city of Kuala Terengganu in northeast peninsular Malaysia. More specifically, on the waterfront view of The Heritage Bay Club Marina &...

Ray Augé | Sep 4, 2008 2:28 AM

Recently a coleague asked if it was possible to call java from XSL. It is possible, and here is the example I provided. <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"...

satya ranjan | Sep 2, 2008 11:40 AM

What is Portal Pack ? Portal Pack project provides a set of plug-in(s) for NetBeans (IDE) which support full life-cycle of portlet application development inside NetBeans. Using this tool portlet...

Thiago Leão Moreira | Sep 1, 2008 6:43 PM

I just finished a new feature for the Message Boards portlet. The new feature consist of a mechanism to link a Message Boards category to an existent mailing list service. Enabling the users to...

Rajesh Thiagarajan | Sep 1, 2008 6:44 AM

There has been few queries in the Liferay forums w.r.t to support for WSRP (Webservices for Remote Portlets) in Liferay. Here is a summary and some links that point you to this integration effort....

Ray Augé | Aug 28, 2008 7:29 PM

In Liferay we have this cool new feature to run portlets as embedded widgets from any webpage anywhere. Tired of loosing you chat sessions on every page refresh??? No more!!! Well feast your eyes...

Brian Chan | Aug 26, 2008 4:36 PM

Previously, to customize a core portal JSP, you would have to use the ext environment. You can do it now in a plugin via our liferay-hook.xml file. Just specify a directory of where your custom...

Richard Sezov | Aug 22, 2008 7:27 PM

Some people might be wondering why I've been so scarce around here. The reason for this is that I and my team have been heads-down working on a couple of brand new training courses that we will...

Jerry Niu | Aug 22, 2008 7:12 PM

With Liferay 5.1, we introduced a new Chat Portlet. Here are instructions on how to add it Start by getting to the "Plugins Installer". You'll see that the Chat Portlet is one of the options. ...

Neil Griffin | Aug 21, 2008 12:37 AM

UPDATE! Here is a video+transcript of the presentation given at the JSFOne conference: http://java.dzone.com/videos/filthy-rich-portlets And here is a similar webinar on ICEfaces .org in both .wmv...

Neil Griffin | Aug 21, 2008 12:25 AM

Perhaps I'm dating myself, but when I entered college in 1988, the Computer Science department required me to buy a Mac II because it was the only personal computer of the day that ran a type of...

Neil Griffin | Aug 16, 2008 10:37 AM

UPDATE: 2019/01/11: Please refer to Kyle Stiemann's blog titled How can I share session data across portlets in Liferay? which discusses the various benefits and drawbacks of data sharing...

Arcko Duan | Aug 16, 2008 4:27 AM

The open-source software movement (also known as the free software movement) received a boost Wednesday from the federal appeals court in Washington, according to an article from the New York...

Bruno Farache | Aug 15, 2008 11:18 PM

We've made some enhancements to the search infrastructure of the portal recently. We abstracted out Lucene as a search engine, now people can build plugins that integrate with others search engines...

James Min | Aug 14, 2008 3:06 PM

I've been being asked this a lot recently, so I'm going to blog it. Also a wiki on it. 5.1 To see a listing of available web services (v 5.1), you can go to the following URL with Liferay running...

Alvaro Del Castillo | Aug 13, 2008 4:37 PM

Today is my last day working at Liferay as a full time employee. On 1st September I will start working at CENATIC, National Reference Centre for the Application of Open Source Information and...

Bryan H Cheung | Aug 6, 2008 6:26 AM

Brian just wrote a great blog about the Meetup and I couldn't resist adding my usual philosophical shpiel. The Meetup this year was interesting because of how much it was a reflection of the social...

Brian Chan | Aug 5, 2008 7:01 PM

Thanks to everyone who came to participate in last Friday's meetup in sunny Los Angeles! It was loads of fun. Check out www.flickr.com/photos/tags/liferaymeetup2008 for more pics. Here are the guys...

Ajit Kamble | Aug 5, 2008 6:41 PM

OpenSSO is an open source project for single sign on from Sun Microsystems. This document describes how to integrate Liferay 5.1 with OpenSSO on Glassfish V3. 1. Download OpenSSO from...

JR Houn | Aug 1, 2008 5:53 PM

For the benefit of everyone who may not be able to attend the Liferay Meetup today, I'll be trying to update this blog post. Any noteable information, oustanding events, questions, I'll try and...