Blogs

James Falkner | May 3, 2011 5:31 PM

Recently I came across a forum post asking about deploying Liferay on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk. Elastic Beanstalk (EB) is basically a managed Amazon EC2 instance running Linux and a...

Shuyang Zhou | Apr 27, 2011 12:02 AM

The short answer to the title question is YES. However a longer version is : After LPS-16789 you don't really need to worry about it. The possibility for seeing an actual conflict is negligible for...

Ronald Sarayudej | Apr 21, 2011 10:13 PM

TVBEurope Magazine Online Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 TVBEurope is a hub that offers news involving the broadcasting industry in Europe. Their site features updates on business models, important...

James Falkner | Apr 20, 2011 7:53 PM

Recently I did a Liferay LIVE presentation on driving community participation with Liferay. I'll post links to the video and slides once they are available. The main topic was how to encourage...

James Falkner | Apr 13, 2011 6:18 PM

Miss me yet? It's been a busy several weeks here at Liferay so I've been a little absent (not disconnected, just heads down). We had a very successful showing at the Gartner Portals, Content,...

Bryan H Cheung | Apr 13, 2011 2:51 PM

I just got back from our first Liferay Roadshow in Amsterdam yesterday and gave a talk about how identity and interactions are changing due to paradigm shifts in technology and corporate culture....

Igor Spasić | Apr 7, 2011 9:42 AM

Although this tale is not about folder structure (most developers have it similar), we will start with one. This is how all my Liferay portal project folders look like: I have several project...

Paul Hinz | Apr 1, 2011 12:00 AM

Were you able to visit us at the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit in Los Angeles this last week? We presented to numerous customers and interested business leaders in our booth. ...

Daniel Sanz | Mar 28, 2011 1:51 PM

We have been working for a while in the task of integrating Liferay translations and Pootle. The overall goal is to make it easier for translators and contributors to improve the Liferay project by...

Jonas Yuan | Mar 23, 2011 7:40 PM

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. A web feed...

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 23, 2011 7:14 PM

Scion Owners Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 6.0 The Scion Owners website was designed to make it easier and faster for people to get plugged into the Scion car user community. Scion drivers or...

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 22, 2011 7:42 PM

Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten Region: Germany Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten is a state university in the southwestern part of Germany (Württemberg). The school...

Venkata Mukku | Mar 14, 2011 9:29 AM

This blog will talk about how to create basic Liferay portlet with maven and integrate drools flow as a rule engine with Liferay portlet. Drools 5 introduce the Business Logic integration Platform...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 11, 2011 6:22 PM

One of the questions that comes up more often when I talk to community members, partners and customers is, should I use communities or organizations in my project? If you haven't asked yourself...

Richard Sezov | Mar 10, 2011 8:28 PM

The Liferay in Action MEAP was updated today and now includes all the chapters that will be a part of the book. I still have some editing to do, but we're getting pretty close now. From the Manning...

Ronald Sarayudej | Mar 10, 2011 7:48 PM

Exercito Brasileiro Region: Brazil Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE Exercito Brasileiro is a government website devoted to news, recruiting, and events revolving the national army of Brazil. Their...

Bryan H Cheung | Mar 10, 2011 10:44 AM

"Rather than boring your customers to death, there is a clear opportunity to put the dull corporate website to rest. Then resurrect it as a platform for true community engagement that functions as...

Jonas Yuan | Mar 8, 2011 8:06 PM

User Interfaces may get affected when using friendly URL routing and mapping. URL routing or mapping could shorten URL, as you can see in browsers. A route is a pattern for a URL. It includes named...

James Falkner | Mar 7, 2011 4:33 PM

Hi Gang, welcome back to another edition of Community Roundup. We've had another exciting several weeks of activity in the community, culminating with the release of Liferay Portal 6 CE GA4 (also...

Jorge Ferrer | Mar 4, 2011 8:53 AM

Hey guys, I'm not very active lately due to the great growth that we are experiencing in Spain and the increasing work associated to the upcoming new version, Liferay 6.1. The reason for this blog...

James Falkner | Mar 2, 2011 5:04 PM

Recently Liferay completely an upgrade of the software that powers issues.liferay.com. We upgrade to JIRA 4.2.4, which is around 5 years newer than the one before! As you can imagine, there have...

Greg Amerson | Feb 25, 2011 9:23 PM

Hello everyone, *See Update * I just noticed that Eclipse has released Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2). Also last week we released a bug fix release for Liferay IDE 1.2.1. Unfortunately I have just...

Alexander Chow | Feb 25, 2011 11:48 AM

Last year, there was a huge buzz about this new protocol call CMIS that just was released at 1.0. Much like JCR, CMIS is a protocol that allows interoperability for document repositories of...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 25, 2011 12:44 AM

The Official Portal of The UAE Government Region: The United Arab Emirates Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) sits in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 18, 2011 1:17 AM

Careers at Total Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Total operates as the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world and is also a world-class...

James Falkner | Feb 17, 2011 5:01 PM

Yesterday we wrapped up the first sprint of the Liferay Community's 100 Paper Cuts program, and at at 80% solution rate, I'm calling it a success! A big round of applause goes to the volunteers of...

Ray Augé | Feb 16, 2011 8:52 PM

All secure RSS feeds now transparently support BASIC Authentication. The behavior is such that when you're logged in, the feeds will simply work as expected if you open them directly in the...

Erik Andersson | Feb 16, 2011 7:32 PM

Hi all, thanks for stopping by my blog here at Liferay. This being my first post, I'll start by introducing myself to those who yet doesn't know me. My name is Erik Andersson and I'm a co-founder...

Ronald Sarayudej | Feb 15, 2011 12:23 AM

University of Eastern Finland Region: Finland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The University of Eastern Finland stands as one of the largest universities in Finland. It seeks to be among the top three...

Jonas Yuan | Feb 13, 2011 4:02 PM

jQuery 1.5 updates on both jQuery Core and UI. This release included many performance improvements and bug fixes as well as a major re-write of the Ajax module which now comes with deferred...

Alexander Chow | Feb 11, 2011 10:20 PM

One of the nice things about working for Liferay is the flexibility I have in where I can work. Though originally from LA, my wife and I currently live in the UK and I work from home in the UK. ...

James Falkner | Feb 11, 2011 2:42 PM

Time for another installment of Community Roundup! I enjoy taking a tour of the Liferay Community in these blog posts, I hope you find them useful. Lots of items of interest in the last 2 weeks,...

Greg Amerson | Feb 10, 2011 10:48 PM

Hello all, Its been awhile since the last Liferay IDE release as I've been busy on some tooling for our EE customers, however, along the way I've been adding new features and improvements to IDE as...

Jonas Yuan | Feb 10, 2011 10:07 PM

Any application dealing with currency should really use the Java class BigDecimal. BigDecimal - java.math.BigDecimal - immutable, arbitrary-precision signed decimal numbers. A BigDecimal consists...

Samuel Kong | Feb 10, 2011 9:33 AM

Liferay Portal provides a WebDAV URL to all documents in the Document Library so that you can access the documents from your computer's desktop. While this is a great feature, it can be a little...

James Falkner | Feb 9, 2011 9:24 PM

Liferay East Coast Symposium 2011 Liferay's third annual East Coast Symposium (ECS) will be held in beautiful Leesburg, Virginia on May 10-11, 2011. ECS 2011 will be a great opportunity for...

Joshua Asbury | Feb 7, 2011 5:44 PM

While performing a demonstration last week, I added the Mail portlet into a user's private pages and set it up using my Gmail account. Everything went fine during the demo, but when I tried to...

Richard Sezov | Feb 4, 2011 8:56 PM

Well, we're marching right along on our way to completion. Manning has just updated the Liferay in Action MEAP with the next-to-last chapter, on Ext plugins. With this chapter, you learn all about...

James Falkner | Feb 3, 2011 10:31 PM

Make a great video and win an Amazon Kindle! Liferay is calling on YOU, the Liferay Community, to showcase your world with Liferay. Participate in Liferay's first ever community video contest, make...

Ray Augé | Feb 2, 2011 7:05 PM

This example demonstrates several advanced features of Liferay's Web Content Management provided when taking full advantage of Liferay's Web Content Template processing engine. It'll demonstrate...

Jonas Yuan | Feb 1, 2011 1:31 AM

Alfresco Enterprise 3.4 delivers social content management. This new release delivers on Alfresco’s vision of providing the open platform for social content management by delivering both a more...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jan 31, 2011 10:13 PM

Asurion Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Asurion is technology protection services leader that offers quality, next-day device replacement along with user content and software protection....

Alexander Chow | Jan 31, 2011 8:55 PM

Liferay's engineering team has been doing a lot of work on the Document Library for version 6.1. But in one of the recent weekly meetings, a discussion sparked off about the possibility of having...

Igor Spasić | Jan 28, 2011 11:18 AM

... and not a joke:) Application servers wiki document collects informations about appservers Liferay portal can be deployed to. More important are the children pages, with various tips, tweaks,...

James Falkner | Jan 25, 2011 9:27 PM

Howdy folks, time for another community roundup.. It's been an action-packed couple of weeks at Liferay. The first month of 2011 is almost over, and we're chugging along nicely. Lots of items to...

Jonas Yuan | Jan 22, 2011 12:11 AM

Service Builder is a cool tool to automate the creation of interfaces and implementation classes for database persistence, local services and remote services, like find, create, update, and delete...

Igor Spasić | Jan 19, 2011 11:41 AM

Let's read the tags content in following XML snippet: <tag>foo&amp;boo</tag> with the single call to (supposing everything is initialized correctly up to this point): xmlStreamReader.getText() We...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jan 18, 2011 9:35 PM

School Specialty Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE School Specialty is a educational solutions provider focused on providing creative and comprehensive tools that will help students...

Mika Koivisto | Jan 17, 2011 10:23 PM

This is a new cool feature I worked on with Brian and it’s coming on 6.1 as well as 6.0 EE SP2 and 5.2 EE SP6. With this feature you can add new struts actions to portal from a hook plugin and you...

Ray Augé | Jan 17, 2011 7:39 PM

Last week I wrote about a hook we wrote for Expandos using MongoDB. I just wanted to let you know that it just finished review and is ready for consumption. It's been renamed to mongodb-hook in...

Igor Spasić | Jan 14, 2011 9:12 AM

I wrote wiki article about how to configure JAAS that uses OpenLDAP to auth users. Article also announce new feature i.e. portal property: portal.jaas.auth.type that allows JAAS to authenticate...

Jeffrey Handa | Jan 14, 2011 3:29 AM

Hey Everyone, This last year has been an exciting time to be involved in the Liferay Training Program and I wanted to let you know what we've been up to and to give you a preview of some of the...

James Falkner | Jan 13, 2011 8:29 PM

Hi all, welcome to another installment of Community Roundup! The last one was 2 weeks ago (been busy with a few other initiatives, see below), so I've got a lot to share. Once the community...

James Falkner | Jan 11, 2011 9:05 PM

Thanks to all of you, Liferay has an active and growing community that has made a lot of contributions in 2010. However, with that growth comes inevitable growing pains! One of the areas in which...

Ray Augé | Jan 9, 2011 4:06 AM

Update: The expando-mongodb-hook plugin is now committed to SVN and available from trunk. Over the past few months the hype around NoSQL type databases had really been heating up the tech news and...

Jonas Yuan | Jan 5, 2011 4:49 PM

Liferay portal provides remote staging and publishing capability through which the users can select subsets of pages and data (both portal core assets and custom assets), and transfer them to the...

Dennis Ju | Jan 5, 2011 12:05 AM

A growing number of websites are adopting OAuth to authorize third-party applications to interact with a user's resources. For example, back on August 31, 2010, Twitter flipped the kill-switch on...

Sergio González | Jan 4, 2011 5:12 PM

I want to make a quick update regarding the latest thing we've been working on: new way of publishing content with the Asset Publisher. The 'classic' way of publishing content with the Asset...

James Falkner | Dec 30, 2010 8:02 PM

Greetings from the next-to-last day of 2010. Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season! Liferay is working hard to bring you another great year of technology, innovation, and fun. I for...

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...