Blogs

Josef Sustacek | Mar 26, 2014 8:59 PM

Uploading files into portlet is quite common request these days and Liferay offers several ways how to achieve it. The simples way is to use plain HTML form upload and retrieve files on the server...

James Falkner | Mar 21, 2014 1:52 PM

Today Liferay released an update of its flagship software: Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA2! [Download] [Quick Start] This update corrects several issues found since the GA1 release in late 2013 found by...

Peter Mesotten | Mar 20, 2014 4:56 PM

Libraries (or JAR-files if you will) exist in many different locations in your Liferay installation. Some reside in Tomcat's lib folder, others are included in the lib folder of Liferay's ROOT. And...

Cleydyr de Albuquerque | Mar 18, 2014 3:44 AM

Recently, Liferay Brazil decided to start the Employee Volunteer Plan (EVP) in its office. As you have learned, its a project to sponsor employee participation in social causes for which he or she...

James Falkner | Mar 18, 2014 1:54 AM

The Liferay Marketplace has come a long way since opening its doors in August 2012. Since then it has grown almost 5x in number of apps and has registered more than 600 developers from over 25...

Paulo Fernandes | Mar 12, 2014 12:38 PM

Olá pessoal Realizamos o primeiro meetup no Rio de Janeiro na Caelum e foi um sucesso. Conversamos bastante sobre Liferay e quem estava presente, que até então, não tinha visto a versão 6.2 do...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 11, 2014 12:44 PM

Introduction Configuring a Liferay cluster is part experience and part black magic. There is some information that you can find online, there's some information you can only find out while working...

Paulo Fernandes | Mar 7, 2014 5:12 PM

Olá pessoal Realizamos mais um meetup informal sobre Liferay no dia 06/03/2014. Ele foi extremamente produtivo e quem não foi perdeu Não deixe de comparecer no próximo. Não se esqueça de se...

Jim Hinkey | Mar 7, 2014 5:00 PM

Here are some of the new chapters and sections for you to check out in the Developer's Guide: Developing JSF Portlets with Liferay Faces (New Chapter) Liferay Faces developer content now has its...

Vitor Silva | Mar 6, 2014 3:36 PM

As promised this blog post is a continuation of the previous one about RESTFul services (check the related blog) On this blog post I will explain how to integrate an external javascript library -...

Michael C. Han | Mar 6, 2014 2:14 PM

There has been a tremendous lack of understanding around what Liferay means by "hot deploy" and "auto deploy". Most people get the two concepts confused, believing them to be one and the same. In...

Andrea Di Giorgi | Mar 6, 2014 9:46 AM

Hello to all! This is my first post on liferay.com, so let me introduce myself: my name is Andrea (yes, it's a male name in Italy!) and I'm a software engineer working in the R&D group at SMC...

Nelson Aguayo | Mar 5, 2014 1:35 PM

Hi guys, I would like to share some important recommendations for your portal-ext.properties files. First, you must remember the order for the overwrite properties. Liferay loads the values of...

Ankit Pancholi | Mar 5, 2014 5:54 AM

Deploying Liferay on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Configuring RDS for database, S3 for data folder and Scaling Liferay using Load Balancer on Cloud Pre-requisites: You have a AWS account Configured with...

Meera Prince | Mar 4, 2014 3:18 PM

Introduction: Liferay Have given AUI Auto complete list from which we can populate matching values to user in input fields and data will be served from server with help of Ajax call. AUI Auto...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Mar 3, 2014 11:15 PM

Today we have released Sync Desktop 1.2 for Mac, Windows and Linux (Beta), providing users easy access to their Liferay Portal 6.2 document repositories right from their desktops. Downloads for...

Denis Signoretto | Feb 28, 2014 2:52 PM

Before starting this post I would like to recall a previous excellent article of Brett Swaim "Using log4j to ensure each portlet has it's own log file". In his post Brett summarizes (look at the...

Neil Griffin | Feb 27, 2014 8:31 PM

On March 1, 2014 Liferay released the 1st Milestone of Liferay Faces 4.x: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-m1 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 *NEW* Release Notes Liferay Faces 4.1.0-m1 JSF 2.1 + Liferay Portal 6.1...

Travis Cory | Feb 27, 2014 7:02 PM

Liferay 6.2 brings the era of the application display template (ADT) into full swing. There have been some awesome posts about how to use the ADT. For more information about ADT see this page, this...

Edward Shin | Feb 27, 2014 12:07 AM

The Liferay team is pleased to announce the release of the Liferay worldwide public training tour! Training provides opportunities to learn the latest tips and best practices for the management,...

Zeno Rocha | Feb 25, 2014 9:37 PM

When we first started AlloyUI 2.0 development we realized that we needed a better build tool for the project. Although Ant could do the job, it was not as fast and easy as NodeJS's solutions. So we...

Paulo Fernandes | Feb 25, 2014 1:18 PM

Olá pessoal, Dia 11/03/2014 realizaremos um encontro técnico para falar de Liferay na Caelum aqui no Rio de Janeiro. Gostaria de convidá-los para o evento e caso alguém tenha interesse em contar...

Paulo Fernandes | Feb 25, 2014 12:25 PM

Olá pessoal, Dia 06/03/2014 realizaremos um happy hour para falar de Liferay no Galetos da Alameda Santos com a Rua Augusta. Gostaria de convidá-los para o evento e caso alguém tenha interesse em...

Jamie L Sammons | Feb 24, 2014 11:23 PM

Overview Liferay Ext Plugins are often considered a last resort in the Liferay Plugin world due to the complexity and the lack of hot deploy as well as the inability to remove them once they are...

Vitor Silva | Feb 24, 2014 11:30 AM

I will start a series of blog posts describing on how to use third party frameworks integrated with Liferay, based on my past experience as a core engineer, team leader, solution architect and...

Vernon Singleton | Feb 20, 2014 1:08 AM

Whew! A new release of Liferay Faces is out the door for you to use. But I also wanted to mention some cool new features that the gurus of Liferay Faces have been working on. These new features...

Tomáš Polešovský | Feb 19, 2014 8:56 AM

Hello Friends! I see some confusion around remote services' endpoints security. Here are some tips ... --== Starting with 6.1.20 (EE) and 6.1.1 (CE) authentication is mandatory ==-- When you...

Neil Griffin | Feb 18, 2014 3:20 PM

On February 15, 2014 Liferay released the 5th General Availability (GA) version of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.2.4-ga5 JSF 2.1 + Liferay Portal 6.2 *NEW* Release Notes Liferay Faces 3.1.4-ga5...

James Falkner | Feb 18, 2014 2:59 PM

Ever wonder what exactly is available to you as a WCM Template author, or ADT wizard, or Theme developer? Ever forget the name of that weird request variable that gives you the current URL? Or...

Jamie L Sammons | Feb 17, 2014 9:19 PM

In the Liferay Developers Guide there is a nice little tidbit titled "Creating Plugins to Extend Plugins" found here. This basically allows a lot of the same principles used with hook plugins when...

Peter Mesotten | Feb 15, 2014 5:39 PM

Liferay ROOT uses a database connection pool that manages database connections for all data-related requests inside the portal. Most portlets depend on Liferay's service API, so implicitly they...

Paulo Fernandes | Feb 14, 2014 3:33 PM

In my experience working with Liferay projects, the most used component is Web Content, not only the Basic Web Content. A lot of times the customer needs to create a structure and a template to...

Bruno Farache | Feb 14, 2014 11:35 AM

Dear Liferay developers, we're pleased to announce the release of Liferay Mobile SDK 1.0 beta! At Liferay, we have a team of engineers focused on developing native mobile apps and we've learned a...

Meera Prince | Feb 14, 2014 9:28 AM

Introduction: Liferay have every good feature that is Custom Fields from this we can create additional attributes or new fields to existed entities. Please go through following Tutorial for...

Meera Prince | Feb 12, 2014 7:12 AM

Introduction: Liferay have in built support for REST API so we can create REST web services for Plugin portlets means we can create web services for custom entities or portlet related entities. ...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Feb 11, 2014 11:45 PM

For the past few weeks, the Social Office team have been working very hard to bring you a version of Social Office compatible with 6.2. I’m very happy to announce that it is now available for...

James Falkner | Feb 7, 2014 3:42 PM

Hello, wonderful World of Liferay! It's (way past) time for another Community Roundup! This is an ongoing (but sadly sporadic) series of blog posts that summarize the latest news from around our...

Meera Prince | Feb 6, 2014 8:38 AM

Objective: Configure SSL (Secure Socket Layer) for Liferay portal. What is SSL? SSL is secured socket layer which secure our application data in the network means it will protect application...

Olaf Kock | Feb 5, 2014 8:39 PM

I talked with Alberto Chaparro. Alberto works for Liferay as a support engineer on the spanish team. This conversation follows up on something that Iliyan mentioned in episode 37: The migration...

Kushal Jayswal | Feb 4, 2014 9:18 AM

I was working on a Liferay project. The project was pretty much simple but we faced some issue regarding integration of Norton VeriSign Seal. What is Norton Verisign Security Seal (NVSS)? If you...