Blogs

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...

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....

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...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 7, 2010 6:28 PM

============================== English =============================== Liferay keeps growing and our office in Madrid is no exception. Because of this we are looking to incorporate 4 new employees...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 7, 2010 6:00 PM

While the ability to have all of our official docs in HTML form and indexed is great, in some cases we all prefer a PDF version that can easily be printed or checked while offline. We've always had...

Igor Spasić | Oct 7, 2010 7:11 AM

A lot of effort is put into keeping Liferay huge source base formatted consistently, what is very important. There is an advance source formatter (ant format-source) that outputs formatting...

Ronald Sarayudej | Oct 4, 2010 4:33 PM

The Yellow Affair Region: Finland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The Yellow Affair is an international sales and distribution company in the media industry who specialise in titles with a unique blend...

Ray Augé | Oct 4, 2010 1:52 PM

A while back I wrote a post about adding custom tools to the Liferay Velocity context. In 6.0 a change was made such that the behaviour has changed slightly. Now all such tools are plain old beans...

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 30, 2010 11:27 AM

One of the most interesting improvements of Liferay 6 for developers is that the plugin infrastructure has improved considerably. For example, the hook plugins are now much more powerful and allow...

Paul Hinz | Sep 24, 2010 6:14 AM

Over the last year, over 1,000 people have attended Liferay's Symposiums. We have held Symposiums worldwide to simplify attendance and each has been filled with both technical and business leaders...

Igor Spasić | Sep 23, 2010 12:22 PM

By default, Liferay portal deployed on WebSphere7 will not be able to send any email to Gmail, even if the portal is set correctly (pop.gmail.com:995; smtp.gmail.com:465; secure network...

Ray Augé | Sep 22, 2010 2:23 PM

When should you use a debugger during development? At ALL times! At least that's my view. Isn't that a hassle? Well debugging sure can be, but if you setup your environment in a specific way, it...

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 22, 2010 10:40 AM

As you have probably already noticed we've just made public a quite large revamp of our documentation. This is the result of a project that has taken several months and has involved gathering...

Greg Amerson | Sep 21, 2010 10:01 AM

Early this month I was able to visit with many in the Liferay community at the West Coast Symposium. I had a great time discussing some of the issues and hearing some concerns of our users with...

Brian Kim | Sep 20, 2010 2:34 PM

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending our very first "Roadshow", which was hosted together with our partner Dunn Solutions Group at the Willis Tower in Chicago. As part of our releasing...

Igor Spasić | Sep 19, 2010 12:00 AM

When Liferay portal is deployed in WebSphere 7, it is possible to use JConsole to connect to the app server and monitor the portal. You need two files: (1) wm-jmx.bat @echo off :: user...

Richard Sezov | Sep 18, 2010 3:44 AM

This has been a long time coming, and could not have been done without the help of a whole team of people, but we have finally done a redesign of the documentation pages on this site. Our previous...

Ray Augé | Sep 16, 2010 2:21 PM

So my last blog post involved a classloader trick for velocity but it also involved a problem of dynamically listing article fragments on a page. Now, there are a few ways to do this, but the two...

Ray Augé | Sep 16, 2010 2:00 PM

Recently I was asked to solve a WCM dynamic Template problem which involved listing articles using the business logic of the template. One of the first problems I encountered was of course doing a...

Greg Amerson | Sep 15, 2010 8:12 PM

The latest version of Liferay IDE version 1.1 has just been released to the update sites. To see a list of the new features and improvements take a look at the Liferay IDE 1.1 New and Noteworthy....

Joshua Asbury | Sep 14, 2010 5:02 PM

Over the next couple of weeks, Liferay and our partners are going to present a series of roadshows around the country. With the recent release of Liferay 6 EE, we want to provide our customers a...

Paul Hinz | Sep 11, 2010 1:08 AM

Liferay 6EE is complete and was launched at Liferay's West Coast Symposium. It should be obvious now we were purposely quiet leading up to this launch but now with the hood off, there are several...

Julio Camarero | Sep 7, 2010 3:51 PM

(See English version below) En octubre se celebrará en Málaga (España) el Open Source World Conference, una de las conferencias más importantes en materia de software libre a nivel europeo. Desde...

Igor Spasić | Sep 7, 2010 2:00 PM

These are some quick steps how to use Derby DB with Portal 6. (1) Prepare Portal Database This shall be done only once. + modify derby/bin/ij.bat by adding: set...

Igor Spasić | Sep 3, 2010 10:18 AM

Liferay portal can be deployed to many app servers. Cool thing is that from version 6 there are ant targets for downloading and preparing app server of your choice. (1) Download and prepare app...

Igor Spasić | Sep 1, 2010 8:00 PM

By default, liferay themes uses velocity templates. For example, classic theme (.../tomcat-6.0.x/webapps/ROOT/html/themes/classic/templates) uses several (*.vm) velocity templates. But Liferay...

Igor Spasić | Sep 1, 2010 2:43 PM

I use IntelliJ IDEA for portal and plugins development. Also, I currently experiment with different project configuration and, therefore, have IntelliJ module files (*.iml) everywhere. For now, I...

Mika Koivisto | Sep 1, 2010 3:32 AM

That's a question I've head many times and in this post I will show you just how to do that. These instructions are for Liferay 6 CE GA3 Tomcat 6.0 bundle however you can use any app server...

Paul Hinz | Sep 1, 2010 2:09 AM

Igor Spasić | Aug 31, 2010 9:18 AM

Portal minifies JS and CSS; and optimizes HTML (by stripping unnecessary characters, etc). Such files are optimized for production, but not for humans :) that dig into the code during development...

Igor Spasić | Aug 31, 2010 9:04 AM

public class Liferay { String $ = "YIYEEILLI:L" + "FIYRELYR)IoLERoLtIaAFF" + "lILRpLYIlLaIARoLRLoIlL" + "YAoIRRrYFY." ; String $$= "LIFERAY.portal:)"; String $$$ ="liferay.com"; byte[] o;int...

Mika Koivisto | Aug 24, 2010 6:21 PM

Freemarker is a template language very similar to Velocity. Starting from Liferay 6.0 Liferay supports also Freemarker templates in themes and Web Content templates. In this post I will show how...

Alexander Chow | Aug 24, 2010 10:59 AM

For a while now, Liferay has offered Basic authentication for various servlets (e.g., WebDAV, JSON, etc.). For the most part, this has suited most of our needs. However, recently, there have been...

Barrie Selack | Aug 23, 2010 2:34 AM

This is the second part of a series of blogs and wiki articles on using gadgets in Liferay. In the blog we'll look at a gadget in action and in the associated wiki post we'll breakdown the gadget,...

Wilson Man | Aug 18, 2010 4:23 AM

Liferay 6.0 now comes with an additional Single Sign-On option - Facebook SSO using OAuth 2.0. Setup is quite easy. Let me walk you through the steps below. 1. In order for Facebook SSO to work,...

Brian Chan | Aug 16, 2010 11:20 PM

GA 3 is a bug fix release for GA 2. Changes are available on our Issue Tracker. Downloads are available on SF.net.

Paul Hinz | Aug 13, 2010 11:21 PM

Liferay 6 EE is almost done - it's great - and we're having a party. Over the last year and a half, most of Liferay spent heads down digging through reports, reviews, strategies, ideas, code,...

Barrie Selack | Aug 12, 2010 3:53 PM

This is the first part of a series of blogs and wiki articles on using gadgets in Liferay. In this first part we'll discuss gadgets use and how to deploy a gadget. So, will gadgets replace...

Ronald Sarayudej | Aug 7, 2010 12:02 AM

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Region: Canada Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.1 Since its first $2,000 auction in 1958, Ritchie Bros. has conducted thousands of unreserved public auctions worldwide. Its...

Ronald Sarayudej | Aug 4, 2010 12:07 AM

LOT Polish Airlines Region: Poland Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Since 1928, LOT Polish Airlines has met the transportation needs of individual and corporate customers flying to and from Poland...

Samuel Liu | Aug 2, 2010 11:03 PM

Today was my first day playing with the Liferay IDE. It is really good! It basically streamlines all the little processes that create friction for Liferay developers and lets you handle everything...

Neil Griffin | Jul 30, 2010 4:38 PM

During a recent class I taught on ICEfaces, one of my students asked me why the calendar was often one day off from what got posted back to the model managed-bean setter. For example: // Facelets...

Jorge Ferrer | Jul 30, 2010 10:23 AM

Después de un año de pausa este año vuelve de nuevo la Open Source World Conference en Málaga. Después del gran éxito del Symposium en Madrid, nos hemos quedado con ganas de más y hemos pensado que...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jul 29, 2010 10:38 PM

Barcelona Bus Turistic Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Established in 1987, Barcelona Bus Turístic is the official sightseeing tour of the city. Open to all, this sightseeing service is...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jul 27, 2010 10:38 PM

DAN: Divers Alert Network Region: Europe Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 DAN helps divers in need, 24/7, anywhere in the world, with medical emergency assistance, and promotes diving safety through...

Jorge Ferrer | Jul 27, 2010 10:32 AM

Along with all the functional and architectural improvements of Liferay 6, we've also tried to improve our release process based on the feedback that we've received from the community and customers...

Juan Fernández | Jul 26, 2010 11:54 AM

A new functionallity in Liferay 6 are the so called "Sanitizers". What are sanitizers? Sanitizers are a filtering element that "sanitize" web content (usually HTML or javascript code) so that it...

Ray Augé | Jul 25, 2010 4:50 AM

We've been saying for a long time that you could write plugins in a variety of languages, but we never really had any examples to prove that. Of course some languages will be far simpler to achieve...

Brian Chan | Jul 23, 2010 4:40 PM

GA 2 is a quick bug fix release for GA 1 that was released last week. It includes many bug fixes. Thanks to everyone who helped out. New features for Liferay 6 are listed on our Wiki. Release notes...

Nate Cavanaugh | Jul 20, 2010 4:03 PM

One of the biggest feature requests from Liferay 5.2 was the ability to upgrade the included version of jQuery. Many users would like to use third-party plugins, and most of those require the...

Brian Chan | Jul 16, 2010 12:20 AM

Whew. Just finished the upload the Liferay Portal 6 GA! We hope you enjoy this release. Thank you for letting us serve you. We'll be blog'ng, wiki'ng, webinar'ng, and document'ng the many new...

Ray Augé | Jul 15, 2010 9:44 PM

Some of the latest details about Liferay Staging in 6.0 are now on the Wiki: Staging - 6.0 Local Live Remote Live Better Differential Publishing Stored connections settings for remote staging (as...