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Jian Cao | Dec 18, 2008 1:44 AM

This feature is a very simple and useful in AJAX and JSON like things. It is a way to get pure response code as you set. 1. TestResourcePortle.java public class TestResourcePortlet implements...

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 17, 2008 5:57 AM

If you've been working with Liferay for a while this is probably an improvement that you will be excited about. If you are new to Liferay then this is a change you'll be even more excited about....

Jorge Ferrer | Dec 12, 2008 6:56 AM

It's been a very long time since my last post but I promise I'll make up for it with a series of posts about the latest features we've been working on for the next releases of Liferay Portal. But...

Jian Cao | Dec 8, 2008 1:29 PM

This is a simple series of articles to indicate the new features of Jsr 286 1.Public Render Paramter Here we simulate a Sender and a Receiver to show this portlet.xml(Define the public render...

Thiago Leão Moreira | Dec 5, 2008 7:05 PM

Hi there! We are glad to announce for all those of you Maven adicted like me , that now Liferay has its artifacts public in a Maven 2 repository! The community request was listened and answered. ...

Michelle Hoshi | Dec 3, 2008 7:53 PM

One of the cool features of Liferay Social Office is its use of Office Integration. When collaborating with others it is often a huge hassle to create a document and then email it back and forth...

Bryan H Cheung | Dec 2, 2008 2:15 AM

This week I'm pleased to announce the first beta release of Liferay Social Office, Liferay's new social collaboration software. While Liferay Portal has had social networking, web 2.0, and...

Michael Young | Nov 22, 2008 7:53 AM

One of the benefits of having our own dedicated SVN servers is that we have been able to set up a Fisheye server at http://svn.liferay.com. We tried to set up Fisheye against our Sourceforge.net...

Brian Chan | Nov 21, 2008 3:37 AM

The number of committers to our SVN repository and the sheer amount of activity have both skyrocketed this past year. Sun now has over 25 active contributors and Liferay, Inc. has been hiring key...

Nate Cavanaugh | Nov 21, 2008 2:42 AM

It's been a while, but trust me, we've been working like crazy to get 5.2 out for your using pleasure. But, I arrive with a bit of a gift, especially for the marketing folks (or anyone curious)....

Bryan H Cheung | Nov 19, 2008 8:31 AM

Some of you may have been following our developments with the analyst community, particularly Gartner and their 2008 Magic Quadrant reports. For those of that haven't, Liferay was recently...

Julio Camarero | Nov 17, 2008 3:38 PM

Hi all, I started working for Liferay as a Core developper around two months ago and wanted to use this first post also to say hello to all the people I still don't know from the community, welcome...

Jonas Yuan | Nov 10, 2008 10:19 PM

This is a generic solution for full RESTful integration of Liferay 5.1.2 (with FCKEditor 2.6.3) and Alfresco. By this, we can build Journal Articles with content-rich flashes - e.g., GAME, VIDEO,...

satya ranjan | Nov 9, 2008 3:59 PM

The Portal Pack 3.0 M2 is now available for download. These plug-ins are supported on NetBeans 6.5 Beta or later. Highlights of the new features added in this release are : Separate instance...

Jonas Yuan | Nov 8, 2008 1:32 AM

A solution of SSO plus LDAP for Liferay Portal 5.1.2 and Alfresco Portlet 3.0E with full RESTFul Integration at http://liferay.cignex.com You can play with this at http://liferay.cignex.com. 1....

Michael Young | Nov 3, 2008 8:19 PM

The Beauty of Sponsored Development As a company that likes to work very closely with our community, we're often given the opportunity to work on some very interesting (and many times very...

Allen Chiang | Nov 3, 2008 7:49 PM

Updated on 11/4/2008 Liferay has role based access control on any item created by different portlet, but the search result doesn't honor the permission but returned all matched item. Only till you...

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...

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...