Blogs

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...

Allen Chiang | Jul 31, 2008 5:57 PM

The idea is to let a person who posted a messsage expecting answer to vote on comments as the solutions. Once those information built-up, we could use them for construct a FAQ. The current...

Ray Augé | Jul 30, 2008 11:48 PM

Wan Gavin | Jul 28, 2008 1:46 PM

据不完全统计，在开发web应用的时候每次重启web服务器每天每个程序员所花费的时候可以按小时计算。 每次等服务器启动都不是一件愉快的经历。 使用javarebel可以动态加载修改的类，不用每次重启web服务器。 安装 1 下载javarebel http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/ 2 修改jvm参数 测试 checkpoint 1：控制台...

Deepak Gothe | Jul 25, 2008 8:48 AM

Recently OpenPortal Portlet Container was fully integrated in Liferay Portal. The OpenPortal Portlet Container is a fully compliant implementation of the Portlet 2.0 (JSR286) specification. And it...

Alberto Montero | Jul 21, 2008 8:12 AM

Hi all. Recently we have added support for python and javascript in the list of supported scripting languages. This is part of the results of the Romulus project (http://www.ict-romulus.eu). With...

Jorge Ferrer | Jul 20, 2008 3:41 PM

Many of you probably already know how it's possible to preconfigure the personal pages of users by using some properties of the portal.properties file:...

Raju Uppalapati | Jul 18, 2008 5:40 PM

The much awaited Liferay 5.1 bits are now available for download. One of the features that I worked on for this release is adding support for Glassfish V3. The Liferay bundle for Glassfish V3 are...

Michael Young | Jul 17, 2008 10:59 PM

I want to give a quick update regarding 5.1.0, released this morning. Dropping the RC Now that the JSR 286 specification has been officially approved, we can drop the "RC" portion from our release....

JR Houn | Jul 16, 2008 8:58 PM

There have been some questions as to what exactly the selenium tests are testing. So, Mike and I have taken some time and taken a full inventory of every selenium automated test we run and...

Jorge Ferrer | Jul 16, 2008 7:46 AM

Yes, we've finally done it!! Liferay's community wiki has been migrated from MediaWiki to Liferay's own wiki portlet. We are pretty excited about this because it brings a lot of benefits. To name a...

Ivan Cheung | Jul 11, 2008 8:36 AM

One of the most widely used features of Liferay is the Personal Community, aka My Community, aka Personal Space. It's a feature that allows users to have their own set of web pages, both private...

Alberto Montero | Jul 10, 2008 10:17 AM

One of the goals of Romulus (http://www.ict-romulus.eu) is to improve productivity of developers by allowing the use of scripting languages to develop certain task. A point where scripting...

Ray Augé | Jul 9, 2008 4:19 PM

Here is a sample script for the Ruby Console portlet to test various aspects of the Dynamic Query API. import com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.Time import java.lang.System import java.util.Date...

Bryan H Cheung | Jul 8, 2008 3:59 PM

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Brian Chan | Jul 4, 2008 5:09 PM

We're finally making our continuous integration server public. It took several months of fine tuning to get to this point. The main issues were with making sure that CruiseControl , Hudson,...

Jorge Ferrer | Jul 3, 2008 9:24 AM

Inter Portlet Communication (IPC) is a hot topic nowadays. This was probably the most missed feature of the first version of the portlet spec (JSR-168), but has made it to the second version...

Michael C. Han | Jun 30, 2008 9:25 PM

Well, I'm back in our offices in Asia to help our sales folks and to sign some partnerships with local system integrators. This has been a rather interesting trip, especially learning some of the...

Jorge Ferrer | Jun 21, 2008 6:00 PM

A progress bar is one of the most useful widgets for a user interface when the user can perform lengthy tasks. Unfortunately, while it's a widget very often found in desktop applications it's not...

Sang Baek | Jun 19, 2008 6:24 AM

Singapore. Liferay and Intalio, our BPMS partner company, will jointly host a cocktail on July 8th, 630pm at the Hilton on Orchard. Intalio will demonstrate the Intalio Business Process Platform...

JR Houn | Jun 18, 2008 10:14 PM

Hi everyone! It's been some time since I've last put out a blog entry; So I thought it would be an appropriate time to give everyone a little bit of an update into whats going on with Liferay and...

Richard Sezov | Jun 18, 2008 7:18 PM

Liferay is a big application, made up of thousands of files. That's not the kind of typical, everyday application that your system is used to dealing with. Everywhere I've worked (including...

Wan Gavin | Jun 18, 2008 8:34 AM

Firefox 3 中有个插件 User Agent Swither 可以切换到其他浏览器，结合firebug调试css、js。 在各浏览器水火不容的今天这个功能显得非常有用～

Jorge Ferrer | Jun 16, 2008 8:32 AM

Several weeks ago we announced the compatibility of Liferay 5 with the final draft of the spec. and now it's been declared officially final. Thanks go to Stefan, the spec lead, for all his hard...

Craig Kaneko | Jun 13, 2008 10:49 PM

If you’re just getting involved with Liferay, you may have come across an interesting portlet called the asset publisher. There are so many different ways to configure this portlet so that it...

Richard Sezov | Jun 13, 2008 6:56 PM

Here's a good story for a Friday: I'm running around today opening windows because it's hot, but not so hot as to turn on the air conditioner. I'm a little frustrated trying to get something to...

Joseph Shum | Jun 13, 2008 1:26 AM

For my latest task I’ve been looking into re-implementing the persistence layer of Liferay permissions to authenticate users and obtain authorization data from a client identity and access...

Ivan Cheung | Jun 12, 2008 9:11 AM

I've been playing around with Liferay portal version 5.0.1 and have found some new features that make it easy to create a community driven website. When I hear good news, I just wanna share it, so...

Arcko Duan | Jun 6, 2008 7:11 AM

James Min | Jun 5, 2008 5:35 PM

Want to tune Liferay for better performance? There are several things that you can do. There is no magic wand that turbo charges your web app. There is this wiki article which has some properties...

Peter Shin | Jun 2, 2008 10:31 AM

Updated: 11/28/08 Screenshots for the latest Desktop theme updated for Liferay 5.2.x. You can download the theme here (change .zip to .war) It'd be nice to have a theme that's different...

Arcko Duan | Jun 2, 2008 7:01 AM

The premier Site-Specific Browser that brings Liferay to your Desktop, just kidding... http://bubbleshq.com/scripts/169/liferay Another thing is how to make a notifier icon here for chat portlet,...

Richard Sezov | May 28, 2008 8:01 PM

Just wanted to let you know that the Quickstart Guide (upon which the below video is based) is now available! You can grab it at the Community landing page:...

Alvaro Del Castillo | May 26, 2008 12:52 PM

In the process of migrating the Document Publisher portlet from LRP 4.4.2 to 5.0.1 one of the problems I have found is that in LRP 5.0.1 the URLs for actions and renders in some cases, like URLs...

Alvaro Del Castillo | May 24, 2008 12:01 PM

I am working right now in creating a new portlet por publishing documents (DocBook, XML Framemaker, Javadoc) so you can view them inside a Liferay portlet add comments the document section, access...

Nate Cavanaugh | May 23, 2008 9:48 PM

I just wanted to drop a couple of notes about the auto-save that I didn't mention before.... 1. I didn't do the bulk of the work That honor goes to Jonathan Neal. Bchan did a lot and I made a...

Jorge Ferrer | May 23, 2008 5:46 PM

Until now when the user was in any place of the portal clicked the "Sign in" link he was shown a default portal login page. Of course it was already possible to create your own customized login...

Alberto Montero | May 22, 2008 9:19 AM

Hi everyone. Yes, now you can develop portlets using groovy, and thanks to the last changes made by Brian is quite simple. Let's take a look at sample-groovy-portlet (check it out from the plugins...