Blogs

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...

Sampsa Sohlman | 06.08.2015 09:03

First of all announcement for Vaadin developers: As from issue LPS-57525 we are not shipping Vaadin with Liferay core anymore. But no worries, Vaadin can be deployed to Liferay 7 as a set of OSGi...

Andrew Jardine | 03.08.2015 20:53

My very first blog post. To be honest I've said for months that I was going to start doing this but there just always seems to be something more "urgent". Today I promised someone on the forums...

Dominik Marks | 31.07.2015 07:16

Extending Liferay core functionality is rather easy. You can use hook or (if needed) ext plugins to extend the functionality. But what if you want to extend a custom plugin (e.g. one you downloaded...

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...

Miroslav Ligas | 23.07.2015 11:35

Liferay UK will be hosting some dev.live sessions this November 4th prior to our annual conference on the 5th at Thistle Hotel, Marble Arch, London. Get ready for an exciting afternoon with lot's...

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...

James Falkner | 15.07.2015 14:13

Here we go again with another crazy summer app contest! This year, to celebrate the release of Liferay Screens, we are holding another community app building contest with some sweet, sweet prizes!...

David H Nebinger | 07.07.2015 03:49

Just a quick note... Vaadin 7.5.0 was released at the end of June, 2015. I've completed an initial round of testing, and Vaadin 7 Control Panel version 1.0.3.0 is totally compatible with 7.5.0. ...

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...

David H Nebinger | 27.06.2015 00:48

Let me say that again: Content Creation is Not a Development Activity! Pretty strong statement, but for for those considering Liferay as a platform it's really an important concept, one that lives...

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...

Martin Yan | 24.06.2015 18:11

It's not easy shopping for enterprise portal software. There are many factors to consider such as reliability, long-term costs and the ease of development. Not to mention things like meeting...

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...

Lauri Hiltunen | 01.06.2015 17:45

Sometimes you need to perform actions which relate directly to your Liferay portal and your site structure. In some cases getting the handle on the layout needed might be a bit tricky though. You...

Ken Dong | 29.05.2015 23:19

When 6.2 was first released, there was a lot of buzz surrounding things like responsiveness out-of-the-box, application display templates, updated control panel, and the recycle bin. We heard good...

David H Nebinger | 29.05.2015 08:09

Introduction In my last blog post I had a little rant about the old version of Font Awesome included with Liferay 6.2 and how it would always be out of date because they seem to keep adding new...

David H Nebinger | 23.05.2015 02:12

Introduction So I'm not the best theme person around. I'm less a UI guy and more of an implementation person. Honestly I hate working on themes. Maybe it's just me, but all of the styling work...

Martin Yan | 23.05.2015 00:08

Our experiences with corporate brands and products are rapidly evolving with the influx of new technology. As consumers, we are looking for companies that can provide us more content pertaining to...

David H Nebinger | 22.05.2015 01:32

Introduction So this is a concept that comes up from time to time on the forums - How do I return a non-database complex object from my ServiceBuilder-generated service layer? The common answer is...

Martin Yan | 20.05.2015 19:42

At Liferay, we seek to empower people with the right resources to help them achieve what they could not achieve on their own. We know there are people who possess amazing vision, and some who just...

Miroslav Ligas | 20.05.2015 08:52

If you are a portlet developer you have many options how to develop the portlets. There are many framework that make your everyday struggle easier. In this blog post I would like to talk about one...

Jorge Ferrer | 16.05.2015 11:18

Here at Liferay we don’t stop and we just took out of the oven the fifth Milestone of the upcoming Liferay 7 release. If the previous milestone marked the beginning of the Community Expedition...

Janne Hietala | 13.05.2015 14:01

We're proud to announce the release of Valamis 2.3 Enterprise Edition – an update for award winning Learning eXperience Solution. The new version introduces various improvements to Valamis core...

Salman Khan | 13.05.2015 11:13

In reference to the blog. One among the large set of features that Liferay provides is its ability to support multiple languages. And we all know Liferay is the most flexible portal for...

Neil Griffin | 12.05.2015 17:41

Project News The Liferay Faces team is hard at work on several projects and I would like to bring you up-to-date with our progress. Support for Liferay Portal 7.0 In early May I attended the...

Lauri Hiltunen | 11.05.2015 15:57

Creating configurable portlets allow site administrators to customize the behaviour of the portlet the way they want to. The core feature set can be expanded dynamically by changing the portlet...

Meera Prince | 08.05.2015 09:47

Liferay Inter Portlet Communication (IPC) is mechanism to communicating one Portlet to other Portlet. JSR 168/ Portlet 1.0 have very limited capability to provide Liferay Inter Portlet...

Martin Yan | 05.05.2015 17:22

Over the years, Liferay has been able to provide many individuals and organizations a unique platform to give them a stronger presence on the web. But we aren't able to accomplish this mission...

David Zhang | 30.04.2015 05:50

How to catch MySQL SQL with tcpdump in Linux Introduction This idea of post is from my previous one: Liferay and P6spy, with the help of P6spy, we can get the formatted Hibernate SQL without "?"...

Jan Eerdekens | 29.04.2015 19:38

The problem While doing some work for a client I ran into issues with the preview generation for some PDFs. While it did generate a preview image for each page of the document, the text on it was...

Olaf Kock | 29.04.2015 10:10

Update! Wir treffen uns am Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2015, 18:30 Uhr in den Räumen der Inovex GmbH: Valentin-Linhof-Straße 2, 81829 München - Vielen Dank für die Unterstützung an Peter Dimitri von...

Sampsa Sohlman | 28.04.2015 09:34

Introduction I decided to write this blog as I did find out that this is the area of the Liferay that has not been documented at all? So this blog post can act as documentation for this. So let's...

Shannon Chang | 24.04.2015 16:00

Takeaways from intra.NET Reloaded Boston Modern organizations are increasingly seeing the value of trading in their notoriously outdated and static intranets for social and collaborative digital...

Lauri Hiltunen | 24.04.2015 05:56

Portlets are components which create a portal application. They can function without any knowledge of other portlets, or can be configured to be dependent of one another in many ways. You can...