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I would like ot share my finding about I18n and L10n in Liferay. I have created blog entry at my personal blog site. How to do Internationalization(I18n) and Localization(L10n) in Liferay ============================================================= Never shy away from re using stuff which already exists ... It gives more time to innovate...

If you have been using the wol portlets you must have noticed that there is no easy way to invite a friend. Currently the way to invite a friend is to go to his/her public profile page and click on the "Add as Friend" link on the summary portlet of the friend. This makes it necessary for you to remember your friend's public profile page URL before you can request him/her to be a...

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. Also a thank you to those who attended the European Liferay Symposium and expressed interest in our QA processes. Our QA process has grown immensely in the past few months and so...

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 source, startup company that we once were years ago. We've forged ahead full steam, brought on a lot of great people, and here we are today: the leading open source portal.  This...

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 special occasion for this blog, and that is the official release of Liferay.com, and I wanted to talk a bit about it.So, back in May we started talking about our current website internally...

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, or too intrusive to the product to retrain a high level of maintainability and a comfortable upgrade path because by it's very nature it inadvertently promotes bad programming practices...

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) Propogation was not functioning properly Layout Caching handling of Internationalized Websites Removed a situation where database connections may leak under heavy load ...

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 Office. We'll be deploying a new website within the next week which will describe these new offerings and will hopefully answer all your questions and concerns as well.  So stay tuned for...

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, policy-based authorization, identity federation, and auditing of access to Web applications and portals. Liferay has out of box SiteMinder integration as of recent Liferay 5.1.2...

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: http://www.portletfaces.org/portletfaces-bridge/examples ORIGINAL POST FOLLOWS: September 30, 2008 Note: An archive of the webinar is now available on ICEfaces .org in both .wmv and quicktime:...

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 UN uses Liferay. Just trying to do our part. Here's Jorge giving his session on leveraging the new portlet specification. Here's HanseMerkur giving a...

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 only a single table for permissions, and a single table row per resource, per role, and so the data size is significantly smaller (probably at least 1/5 of previous). There is an...

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 iteration is rather strange. That's because XSL has no notion of arrays or lists, other than nodelists that is. So we have to get around that by creating a template construct to...

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 performance environment resembles what we see many of our clients use.  Our configuration is as follows: 1) Web Server: 1 CPU quad core 2.4 Ghz Intel Xeon 2GB memory 2)...

LIFERAY is shining in building dynamic, content-rich and ad-serving web sites: Sesame Street and Sesame Workshop. http://www.sesamestreet.org (Sesame Street)http://www.sesameworkshop.org (Sesame Workshop) They are full integration of Liferay, Alfresco and OpenX for Media/Games/Publishing. Managing 300 G ~ 10,000 G Assets; For one million concurrent users; Games,...

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 because of this one's superlative ability in dealing with any type of XML content, local and remote. Not liking to see my friend down in the dumps, because he really has many other...

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 there's more than that: a new chapter on Portal Administration has been added which covers how to design a site using Liferay and how to use Liferay's administrative portlets. Beyond the...

    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 send messages from the Message Boards and reading it using a mailing list and vice-versa. Easy right?     How this new feature will work? Simple, when you...

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 portlet that I am using is running on the latest 5.1.x branch so you may notice some slight ui changes in the portal, but the mail portlet is the same. Splash Screen:   ...

With Liferay 5.1, we introduced a new Mail Portlet.  Here are instructions on how to add itStart by getting to the "Plugins Installer".  You'll see that the Mail Portlet is one of the options.   Select the latest version of the Mail Portlet and click "Install".   The Mail Portlet will start to install and you will see a message that it has...