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Ray Augé | Feb 17, 2009 7:45 PM

Perhaps as a secondary title I should put: "Why is every Liferay plugin writtin in plain old JSP?". There is a very big trend toward wanting to build portlets using some form of fancy framework. It...

Wan Gavin | Feb 17, 2009 2:32 PM

作者 Bruno Farache 英文原文 Web Content（以前叫Journal）最近发布一个新功能。 1.可重复的结构字段Structure fields 当我们建立结构Structure的时候 我们有时不能确定需要多少个字段fields，现在每个字段都选重复。...

Bruno Farache | Feb 10, 2009 8:02 PM

The new release brings some cool new features for the Web Content portlet (previously known as Journal portlet), here are some of them: 1. Repeatable Structure fields Sometimes, while creating a...

Jorge Ferrer | Feb 4, 2009 9:56 AM

The new release of Liferay Portal is out and I think this is its best release ever. All of us who have been working hard within Liferay and the community to get it out are super excited, everybody...

Ray Augé | Feb 2, 2009 4:23 PM

We all want to optimize the processing time of our applications. To do so we use all kinds of different tools: HTTP load producers to measure response times from a client perspective, profilers for...

Julio Camarero | Jan 27, 2009 10:38 AM

Hi everyone, Today I just wanted to highlight one of the many possibilities that Liferay portlets can offer. As mobile devices with internet access are becoming more popular, lots of useful web...

Bryan H Cheung | Jan 13, 2009 7:46 PM

When Brian Chan first started working on Liferay in 2000, one of the immediate goals was to use Liferay to build a public website for his church. Of course, as a portal-based website, it would have...

Nate Cavanaugh | Jan 13, 2009 4:17 AM

It's hard to contain my excitement about what I am going to share. Brian Chan (along with Eduardo Lundgren) have just recently committed a change that I (along with any other person who has to deal...

Michael Young | Jan 12, 2009 7:06 PM

Back in Nov 2008 we migrated SVN servers for committers. We pushed our commits to the Sourceforge SVN server on a regular basis, and that worked well for some time. Recently we discovered that...

Ray Augé | Jan 10, 2009 2:45 AM

So I finally got around to making the Velocity improvements I'd had planned on doing for the last several months. We completely removed the Velocity singleton usage and replaced it with the...

Eduardo Lundgren | Jan 6, 2009 12:21 AM

Only 5% of the end-user response time is spent fetching the HTML document. This result holds true for almost all web sites. The most part of websites spend less than 20% of the total response time...

Bryan H Cheung | Jan 5, 2009 6:51 PM

I had a chance to reflect on 2008 on my way to Tokyo two weeks ago and was really humbled by realizing how many amazing opportunities Liferay has had this year. 2008 Highlights: Continued...

Minhchau Dang | Dec 31, 2008 3:18 AM

A "Gotcha!" situation came up today when I attempted to add a portlet developed in the plugins environment to the Control Panel (which is a new feature being developed for 5.2.0 that you can read...

Nate Cavanaugh | Dec 29, 2008 2:34 AM

There are a ton of amazingly creative people here at Liferay, and I'm always stunned with the stuff that people create. Last night I was doing a ton of coding and some inspiration struck to make...

Eduardo Lundgren | Dec 21, 2008 7:47 AM

Each more we feel the need of becoming more and more web 2.0, it sounds like a physics law to the "guys" that are trying to survivor arround the amazing applications that surround us across the...

Minhchau Dang | Dec 19, 2008 9:44 PM

There are times when I don't want to deal with the start up time of an integrated development environment and opt to use a fast-loading text editor instead. By making this trade-off, I wind up...

Brian Chan | Dec 19, 2008 7:08 AM

Here are some pictures from our third annual company retreat in Los Angeles. It was really fun hanging out with everyone. And what do we do when we get together? Play an international sport...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

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...