Blogs

James Falkner | 30/11/2015 19:57

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA5! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Olaf Kock | 30/11/2015 10:19

I met repeat guest Nate Cavanaugh, Liferay's Director of UI Engineering, at this year's Devcon and he answered all UI-based questions that we could quickly think about - specifically with regards...

Jorge Ferrer | 26/11/2015 21:24

Here we are again, following our bi-weekly releases plan with our third alpha release. We are still working hard to reach beta status as soon as possible and I would like to use this opportunity to...

Martin Yan | 25/11/2015 00:00

By now, we've heard of the necessity of creating a good experience for our mobile viewers. Yet, we're not always quite sure where to start or what factors should be considered in the process. As a...

James Falkner | 24/11/2015 21:33

You may recall back in February 2014 I published a FreeMarker script that would dump variables from WCM and ADT Templates in Liferay 6.2. Well, it's back, this time for Liferay 7! I tweaked it a...

Olaf Kock | 20/11/2015 15:15

A continuation of last week's episode, Milen Dyankov stepped in as a co-host and helped me ask the right questions: Ray Augé answers all sorts of questions about the Modularization in Liferay 7 and...

Annika Sinnecker | 17/11/2015 16:43

The following information is only relevant for German speaking members: Wer mehr darüber erfahren möchte, welche rechtlichen Aspekte bei Nutzung der Community und der Liferay Enterprise Edition zu...

Jason Victor Chang | 16/11/2015 23:57

Alright. It's a wrap, folks. It's been my honor to live blog for all of you who were following along. See you at #LRNAS2016! Looking for day 1's coverage? Here you go. 4:23PM - Closing Keynote:...

Jason Victor Chang | 16/11/2015 14:43

Hello, welcome to the Liferay North America Symposium Live Blog. If you've never followed one of these live blogs before, the content runs in reverse chronological order so that people following...

Martin Yan | 10/11/2015 19:00

Why do people go to the Liferay Symposium? This is a common question that has been asked countless times. Of course, if you ask someone at Liferay, our answers might be a little biased... But in...

Olaf Kock | 09/11/2015 11:07

Another Devcon "private" session - I missed his presentations, but got the summary right when he was done: Ray Augé took the time to answer all sorts of questions about the Modularization in...

Martin Yan | 04/11/2015 17:50

By now it's obvious that the effects of a poor mobile experience are both immediate and far-reaching for business. A frustrating and not-so-user-friendly mobile interaction with your site could...

Ruud Kluivers | 03/11/2015 13:36

Recent verscheen een artikel in NRC met de veelzeggende kop “Gegijzeld door de softwareboer”. Hert artikel put uit een onderzoek van Reporter Radio en NRC. U weet het misschien niet maar bijna alle...

Jorge Ferrer | 02/11/2015 12:38

We continue our path towards releasing Liferay 7 with a new alpha release that focuses on fixing bugs and small improvements. This release fixes 254 bugs since Alpha 1 and adds +100 small...

Olaf Kock | 02/11/2015 11:44

Hofburg, Wien CC by-nd 2.0 by R. Halfpaap(English summary below) Servus nach Österreich. Mal wieder bin ich auf dem Weg nach Österreich. Aber dieses Mal komme ich nicht alleine angereist: Anlass...

Eduardo P. García | 28/10/2015 22:43

What a coincidence (or maybe not...) that Doc and Marty landed in the future on October 21, 2015, the date of the Liferay Spain Symposium. Maybe we didn’t see any overboards or self-tying shoes,...

Neil Griffin | 20/10/2015 15:36

In a blog post from September 2015 titled New Git Repositories for Liferay Faces I mentioned that there would be a new version scheme corresponding to these new repositories. I'm pleased to...

Martin Yan | 19/10/2015 18:32

How much do you know about the people who are visiting your website? The more you know, the greater chance you’ll have of reaching them and helping them find what they are looking for. User data...

Eduardo P. García | 18/10/2015 22:09

Liferay Developer Conference and Unconference 2015 were simply great. Lots of sessions, games and chances to meet some of the most active Liferay developers. It was also very exciting and...

Vernon Singleton | 16/10/2015 18:10

Let me introduce two simple and fun components from among our recently released Liferay Faces Alloy tags, alloy:selectStarRating and alloy:selectThumbRating. Following the example set by our...

Zeno Rocha | 15/10/2015 16:53

At Liferay, we're always trying to make the life of developers easier. We're constantly improving our products and releasing new open source libraries. Helping people is what drives us. Last week...

Olaf Kock | 14/10/2015 08:01

I'm slowly back to my regular sleep rhythm, after the highly anticipated sleep deprivation week that Devcon always is. Those ~450 participants that were there and made it the biggest and greatest...

Angela Wu | 12/10/2015 20:55

Have you heard the news? The Liferay Symposium North America is coming Chicago this fall! Prepare for the Windy City this November by planning out your conference strategy beforehand and setting...

Jose M. Navarro | 06/10/2015 08:50

Hey folks! The new version of Liferay Screens, version 1.2, includes three of the the most demanded and awaited features coming from Liferay community. See? giving feedback pays off! (: The...

Eduardo P. García | 04/10/2015 18:23

Liferay Developer Conference (aka DEVCON) is a great chance for us to meet Liferay developers from all around the world every year. As for the last months we’ve been working on the new version of...

Jorge Ferrer | 30/09/2015 16:02

As announced in my last blog post, the period of our milestones has finished and we are getting into the launch field with the release of Liferay 7 alpha 1. We appreciate all the feedback from the...

Martin Yan | 29/09/2015 21:49

As a web-based platform, a portal allows users to connect with one another and find content that is relevant with ease and simplicity. It combines information from different sources into a single...

Bryan H Cheung | 28/09/2015 21:51

The latest Magic Quadrant report from Gartner on the Horizontal Portal market has just been released, and you can find it here on our website. I just read it through and here’s what I noticed. A...

James Falkner | 28/09/2015 15:51

The summer is over and it's time to crown the winners of the 2015 Liferay Screens App Contest! We had some awesome entries in the first ever contest of its kind, but two of them really stood out as...

Olaf Kock | 28/09/2015 10:48

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions...

Olaf Kock | 25/09/2015 15:19

Do you remember the article that I wrote in March? It talked about Liferay's limitation to have each overloaded JSP only customizable from one hook. The limitation was not enforced, so deploying...

Neil Griffin | 25/09/2015 13:41

Multi-Module Projects Developers that are familiar with the version scheme of the Spring Framework will notice that each module has the same version number. For example:...

Ruud Kluivers | 25/09/2015 06:51

In vrijwel alle gesprekken die ik met klanten en prospects voer wordt de vraag gesteld ‘integreert Liferay met Salesforce’. Mijn wedervraag is dan, wat wil je precies integreren? Niet zelden wordt...

Martin Yan | 23/09/2015 21:41

That's a question we get often when we tell people what we do. Answers can range anywhere from a quick pitch like "a tool that allows people to build their websites" to something more specific like...

Neil Griffin | 16/09/2015 15:55

JavaServer™ Faces (JSF) is one of the standards developed under the Java Community Process (JCP) and was first introduced with Java EE 1.4. The first version of JSF had its share of proponents, but...

Neil Griffin | 08/09/2015 19:02

On August 3, 2015 the JCP Executive Committee approved the ballot for starting JSR 378: Portlet 3.0 Bridge for JavaServer™ Faces 2.2. This is the first time that Liferay will be leading a JSR and...

Milen Dyankov | 31/08/2015 10:04

Looking at Liferay 7 Milestone 7 download stats, it seams many have tried it already. Yet considering the size of the community, the numbers are not that impressive. I'm pretty sure it's not...

Olaf Kock | 24/08/2015 11:03

It looks like I'll stay on this™ side of the atlantic ocean this year, so I'm concentrating on introducing the big events that I'm attending next and link to the others, in the hope that I'm not...

Jorge Ferrer | 20/08/2015 21:44

If you thought August was being a bit boring in terms of news, here we come to spice it up with yet another new milestone release on our road to Liferay 7. And it’s not just any release. This will...

Roguen Keller | 12/08/2015 17:37

My wife has always given me a great amount of grief when it comes to doing even small improvement projects around the house. Almost always, I see the opportunity to get something else done "while...

Sana Razvi | 10/08/2015 22:55

Recently, my company was a sponsor at the Red Hat Summit, a large open source technology event with 5,000+ attendees and 80+ exhibitors. We knew a conference of this size would be overwhelming and...

Neil Griffin | 10/08/2015 18:09

On August 11, 2015 Liferay released the 6th General Availability (GA) version of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 4.2.5-ga6 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 *NEW* Release Notes (420 Issues) - PrimeFaces...

Iliyan Peychev | 07/08/2015 10:36

Those of you who were following the Frontend trends the last two years, would know that there was a big movement toward the next version of JavaScript, previously know as ES6 and now as ECMAScript...

Angela Wu | 05/08/2015 20:53

In the digital age, companies are learning fast that meeting customer expectations and driving business outcomes go beyond brand recognition or product availability. Bryan...

Iliyan Peychev | 30/07/2015 12:41

As you probably know, in Liferay we are working on a new and exiting project, called Liferay Screens. In two words, the project allows creating complex native applications for iOS and Android in a...

Angela Wu | 28/07/2015 17:45

Last month, I attended BizBash LA. As an event planner, I rarely get to enjoy events from an attendee’s point of view, so this was a great experience for me. Even though I was an attendee, I...

Dave Truong | 24/07/2015 18:48

A little while back, I gave a presentation on a new command line tool that the tooling team was hoping to create to help ease development for Liferay. While we were able to get a working prototype...

Jim Hinkey | 16/07/2015 20:28

Do you like conceptualizing and noting important details about Liferay? Do you enjoy explaining terms used in Liferay and in technologies related to Liferay? If so, then it's time you poured this...

Fady Hakim | 16/07/2015 19:30

I will show you the steps to install liferay 6.2-SP11 on JBoss 7.1 1 - Download the below files: - JBoss 7.1 from here and unzip the folder, This directory is referred to as $JBOSS_HOME...

Annika Sinnecker | 16/07/2015 15:35

The following information is only relevant for German speaking members: Wer mehr darüber erfahren möchte, welche rechtlichen Aspekte bei Nutzung der Community und der Liferay Enterprise Edition zu...

Angela Wu | 02/07/2015 00:19

Discover Become a Liferay insider and get a first look at new features and product roadmaps. Learn how Liferay is transforming portal technology to change the way you do business. Learn Enhance...

Mike Macauley | 30/06/2015 10:45

I've been having an ongoing 'discussion' with a good friend of mine about the nature of open source and what constitutes open source. It makes me want to turn it into a proper noun, Open Source,...

Jorge Ferrer | 30/06/2015 09:15

Together with the summer season and the sunny days the sixth milestone has come too. We are getting closer to the end of the year, and this will be one of the last milestones so all development...

Shannon Chang | 29/06/2015 21:34

This year, Liferay was proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Red Hat Summit in Boston. With over 210 sessions including ones from top executives and developers worldwide, we knew we’d be in for a...

Ken Dong | 24/06/2015 19:17

On top of a great product, good leadership has always been a necessity in any successful organization throughout history. But what do people want in a leader? It simply boils down to the fact that...

Olaf Kock | 23/06/2015 09:13

Hofburg, Wien CC by-nd 2.0 by R. Halfpaap Servus nach Österreich. Kurzfristig verschlägt es mich wieder nach Wien und was ist schöner, als sich dort mit freundlichen Menschen zu treffen, die das...

Zeno Rocha | 17/06/2015 00:03

Originally published on Medium At Liferay we have more than 600 employees spread in 18 different offices all over the world. Some of these people work with similar stuff but they may not interact...

Martin Yan | 16/06/2015 17:47

It might be the most universal and recognizable store in the world. Walk by street corners and chances are you’ll see a bright green sign with the red and orange “7” aglow, beckoning visitors to...

Ruud Kluivers | 04/06/2015 07:40

In Nederland denken we vaak dat we vooroplopen en ons positief onderscheiden van de rest van de wereld. Zelfoverschatting is een zorgwekkende eigenschap en de feiten zijn niet altijd in...

Angela Wu | 01/06/2015 16:53

Reimagine Digital Engagement Through an All-in-One Platform Being digital should be at the heart of what you do to provide customers with rich, compelling online experiences. To thrive, and not...