Richard Sezov | Dec 27, 2010 5:45 PM

The Liferay in Action MEAP update came out on Christmas Eve, so I wanted to make sure that I let everyone knew about it in case you, like me, have been offline for the past few days. So Merry...

Shuyang Zhou | Dec 22, 2010 6:55 AM

A lot of Liferay TagLibs use including JSP files to present their content. Is there any difference between TagLib used JSPs and the normal ones? Functionally, they are the same thing. But when we...

James Falkner | Dec 21, 2010 12:08 AM

Happy Holidays from Liferay and our community! Hope everyone has a safe and fun-filled holiday season. Liferay had an exciting and fun-filled 2010. Partner program expansion, new Liferay offices...

Sten Martinez | Dec 16, 2010 11:21 PM

Often we need to display data in a legacy schema. The usual way of doing this in any other application is to set up a new datasource, optionally set up an ORM, and display the data yourself....

Jonas Yuan | Dec 14, 2010 1:37 AM

Liferay 5.2 EE and 6 improved the capabilities of LDAP integration in many areas (refer to blogs posts LDAP Enhancements and Keeping user password secure with LDAP integration): synchronize user...

James Falkner | Dec 10, 2010 7:24 PM

Finally returned from Liferay's annual employee retreat! It was a fun-filled week and it's great to put a face with all the names I interact with on a daily basis. I hope to see many of our...

Brian Chan | Dec 10, 2010 6:59 PM

We decided to relax a bit Wednesday night and headed out to a Lakers game. After all, we are in LA, and we love basketball here. We had some pretty good seats. Here's a pic of Kobe laying it up....

Brian Chan | Dec 9, 2010 8:03 PM

We flew almost the whole company out to Los Angeles for our annual retreat. It's been a great few weeks of brainstorming and fellowship. If you're a Liferay user, community member, or a client -...

Barrie Selack | Dec 8, 2010 11:50 PM

Many people have asked, "How can I embed a portlet in web content". It's actually quite simple, once you know how. So I'll walk you through it. It;s done via a runtime-portlet tag. The actual...

Jonas Yuan | Dec 8, 2010 1:57 AM

In Liferay portal, you can use your own language. Multilingual organizations get out-of-the-box support for up to 36 languages. Users can toggle among different language settings with just one...

Olaf Kock | Dec 6, 2010 2:55 PM

If you are living in a country where the ASCII character set is often almost sufficient but you need to ensure that you can handle UTF-8 well - how do you ensure that? You might not know a language...

Bryan H Cheung | Dec 1, 2010 10:07 PM

Liferay had the chance to be a platinum sponsor at the Open Source Conference 2010, organized by Red Hat and Accenture. At almost 450 attendees, it was the Benelux region's largest-ever OSS focused...

Michael Young | Dec 1, 2010 5:46 PM

Recently I needed to set up SSL in my development environment in order to debug an issue. I needed to make sure that Tomcat could serve SSL content properly As an Http client, the JVM could accept...

Alexander Chow | Dec 1, 2010 11:49 AM

In October, Apple released for OS X their latest update of Java. (There was this whole hoopla about whether or not Java would cease to exist on OS X, but then Apple announced that it would be...

James Falkner | Nov 30, 2010 8:38 PM

Despite the US Holiday, we have lots of items in this week's roundup! Finalist and Proteon hosted the fist ever Dutch Liferay Community Event on November 23 and it was a huge success. Go check out...

Bryan H Cheung | Nov 29, 2010 12:49 PM

As some of you may know, Liferay decided earlier this year to make a strategic investment in growing the European market. To that end, Joseph Shum, our former Alliance Manager for North America,...

Olaf Kock | Nov 28, 2010 12:41 PM

One of the first things I did with Liferay (years back) was the development of a custom theme. Support for this in the Plugins SDK works really smooth and theme development is well documented. One...

Bavithra Rajendran | Nov 26, 2010 5:39 AM

Desktop Gadgets are very popular and I wanted to write a simple Liferay gadget for windows 7 and at last came up with a desktop gadget that has frequently used links of Liferay. I call this as...

Jonas Yuan | Nov 25, 2010 9:29 PM

Liferay 6 provided integration with Google Maps JavaScript API V2. More details, AUI tags are used to integrate Google Maps JavaScript API V2. The Google Maps API lets us embed Google Maps in the...

James Falkner | Nov 24, 2010 9:21 PM

Open source projects and products suffer from a unique problem when it comes to managing bug reports. The open nature of the community means you'll get many more excellent bugs filed as compared...

Igor Spasić | Nov 24, 2010 8:08 PM

Remember: For JSP tags with dynamic-attributes, be careful to use proper case of defined attribute names; especially if scriptlets are used as attributes values. Look at following two usages of...

Jonas Yuan | Nov 23, 2010 6:30 PM

Liferay 5.2 EE and 6 improved the capabilities of LDAP integration in many areas (refer to blogs post LDAP Enhancements by Michael C. Han): synchronize user custom attributes between Liferay and...

James Falkner | Nov 22, 2010 3:55 PM

Updates from around the Liferay community! Don't forget to take the CMS Market Survey. It would be awesome if Liferay is well represented here. Takes about 20 minutes and can be anonymous (but if...

James Falkner | Nov 17, 2010 6:59 PM

"It's that time of year again. Digital agency Water & Stone is running its annual survey on the open source content management market. The data proceeds go to benefit the subsequent Open Source CMS...

Jonas Yuan | Nov 16, 2010 1:44 AM

Liferay portal provides a lot of cool features, for example, Organization hierarchy, virtual host and SEO (Search engine optimization) friendly URL. Web sites can be built based on organizations...

James Falkner | Nov 15, 2010 11:15 PM

Hey gang, I wanted to update you on some recent community news and activities going on.. The Liferay Italy Symposium had over 150 attendees, thanks to those that attended. We are looking forward to...

Jeffrey Handa | Nov 12, 2010 3:09 AM

First of all, greetings to everyone in the Liferay Community. I've been lucky enough to meet many of you around the world over the last two years and I look forward to meeting more of you in the...

James Falkner | Nov 9, 2010 8:13 PM

First off, many thanks to the Liferay team for giving me a chance to be a part of it all. I think these are exciting times for open source and will continue to be for quite some time. I came from...

Ruth Coca | Nov 4, 2010 1:56 PM

Hello everyone! Not bad for a first post, WSRP.... a rough one, as someone told me recently, but guess what? Liferay makes it soooo easy for you! ;) Just download and install the WSRP portlet...

Bruno Farache | Nov 4, 2010 2:04 AM

(English version at the bottom) No último dia 27 de outubro realizamos nosso primeiro roadshow na América do Sul em conjunto com SEA Tecnologia, parceira da Liferay Brasil. O evento nos surpreendeu...

Michael C. Han | Oct 29, 2010 9:39 PM

As much as Brian wants to stick with System.outs to do debugging, I would go with a proper debugger any day. Each time I use the IntelliJ debugger, I thank the engineers @ IDEA for putting a...

Jonas Yuan | Oct 29, 2010 4:54 PM

Liferay User Interface Development Develop a powerful and rich user interface with Liferay Portal 6 Sample chapter, Table of contents, Download code An Overview: Design usable and great-looking...

Igor Spasić | Oct 29, 2010 3:44 PM

Although Liferays jboss-web.xml is set correctly, JBoss 5.1 is still picking up the older hibernate-validator.jar from the commons/lib folder. The exception coming while starting JBoss is:...

Juan Fernández | Oct 28, 2010 8:30 AM

Hi all! Today, while I was reviewing bug and improvement requests tickets from the community members, I saw a ticket created by Sven Werlen from Savoir-faire Linux, a canadian company. They...

Juan Fernández | Oct 26, 2010 3:53 PM

Hi all: In order to share content accross organizations and communities, we have included a new concept in Liferay 6.0: the global scope. The Global Scope is a place for data that is common to...

Ray Augé | Oct 25, 2010 3:09 PM

The JCP Election is just around the corner and Liferay is on the ballot for the first time ever. Being that it is the first time, you may want to know what motivates Liferay's desire for a seat on...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 18, 2010 5:55 PM

CloudSleuth Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 CloudSleuth is a thought leadership community that brings like-minded professionals together to drive the dialogue on cloud computing toward viable...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 18, 2010 5:38 PM

BSF Connection Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The Bible Study Fellowship Connection is your opportunity to be involved with BSF regardless of whether or not you are currently enrolled in a class....

Jonas Yuan | Oct 13, 2010 5:09 PM

As you have been noticed, jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development....

Joshua Asbury | Oct 11, 2010 5:52 PM

Our friends at Sesame Street continue to raise the bar when it comes to being culturally relevant for kids. A few months ago, they released Google search parodies, and now, Grover parodies the Old...