Blogs

  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 urls. Since few months ago I want to blog post about the new Liferay functionality that let you build PortletURLs using JavaScript only. There are many places you can apply...

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 losing many of the nifty productivity features that are built into IDEs. One feature that can be taken for granted is the ability to run build targets with a double-click. By leaving the...

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 everyone loves. Soccer! That's Ed, our head of sales, chasing Sang, our general manager in South East Asia. Glad no one got hurt. Look at Dave chase that soccer ball. If you...

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 Portlet, ResourceServingPortlet { ......     public void serveResource(ResourceRequest resourceRequest,           ...

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. So, what is it? In a few words it's a UI that allows administrating the complete portal, from 1 community to thousands of them, from users and organizations to documents, images, articles, ......

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 first, I want to blog about a topic that I think will be of a lot of interest for Portal developers: how to optimize Liferay to make development faster. In other words...

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 paramter and declare the portlets which support the public paramter)  ...

  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 with updated versions.  You never know if you have the latest version or if someone was left out of the latest update email blast.  Social Office takes care...

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 collaboration functionality for some time, Social Office is our first effort at putting it all together in a intuitive and integrated way. Social Office has an elegant new interface...

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 servers, but because of the size of our repository and remote connection we could never get the initial index to complete. We've also set up the Fisheye plugin for JIRA so that you can view...

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 developers from all over the world as well. While that means increased productivity overall, it also means that SVN responsiveness is now much more important than it used to be. ...

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). Have you ever wondered if a website was running Liferay? Well guess no more. I've written a Greasemonkey script that will tell you if a website is running Liferay or not. What's...

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 recognized in two Magic Quadrants: "Horizontal Portal Products," where Liferay was named a Visionary for its Liferay Portal product "Social Software," which covered Liferay Collaboration...

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 everybody and thank Jorge, Alberto, Brian and Nate for all their support.  From version 5.2 we'll have a new functionality in the portal! It is called "Reminder Queries" and it...

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, Slideshow, VIDEO QUEUE, VIDEO LIST, PLAY-LIST, etc - smoothly. Experience VIDEO LIST while you are reading: Enjoy the solution with Real Demo Find detailed information at...

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 type called "Liferay Portal Server" Integration with Liferay Portal Server 5.1.x running on Glassfish V2/V3 and Tomcat 5.x/6.x Support for Spring MVC Portlet :...

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. First please download an example Liferay Portal 5.1.2, Alfresco Portlet 3.0.0, LDAP (ADS) and SSO CAS. liferay-portal-tomcat-6.0-5.1.2.zip Download from (save link as ...) ...

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 challenging) features. The following is one such feature being sponsored by one of our marquee partners: Read-Write database splitting. They are planning a Liferay deployment that scales to...

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 clicked on the link then portlet indicated that you don't have permission to view it. In some cases, the summary of search result has already broken the permission if it gave the sensitive...

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 existing). Now, we can send Announcements/alerts to a particular user only (whether he may a part of community or organisation) based on screen names by adding a new type in...