Blogs

Greg Amerson | 03.02.2016 18:57

Hello all, I apologize it has taken so long to release a new version of Liferay IDE that supports Liferay 7 development. But today we are pleased to announce the first milestone release for...

Olaf Kock | 26.01.2016 10:03

In this episode, recorded at Liferay's Devcon 2015 in Darmstadt/Germany, I'm talking to Scott Nicklous and Neil Griffin. Scott is the specification lead for JSR-362 - otherwise known as the Portlet...

Javeed Chida | 23.01.2016 00:06

Content Friendly URL? This is one of those tidbits you get served on a platter if you're lucky enough to attend a Liferay training session. Anyway, content friendly url may not be the legit term,...

Lauri Hiltunen | 19.01.2016 16:05

Liferay allows using site specific Google Analytics tracking codes to analyze the traffic inside your portal. Adding the code is simply a matter of going to the site settings and saving the code...

Jan Eerdekens | 17.01.2016 20:26

When working with a cluster you pretty quickly come to a point where you want/need to know what cluster node you're on. Liferay already has a simple way to show you this. You just need to add the...

Krzysztof Gołębiowski | 17.01.2016 14:22

I recently started working on integrating Liferay with ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana, also known as ELK Stack. Every Liferay developer knows very well where to search for logs and what they...

James Falkner | 14.01.2016 21:13

Back in 2012 we began a quarterly program to recognize those of you who have over the years contributed more to Liferay than your average open source enthusiast. Each quarter we recognize the top...

James Falkner | 14.01.2016 13:11

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA6! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Meera Prince | 08.01.2016 14:44

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) is specification that defines modular based software management and its execution. OSGi makes software management and its execution simpler by making...

Javeed Chida | 28.12.2015 18:10

Okay, that is a mouthful. To rephrase my compound title, we'll be talking about an approach that uses search to update a content item that follows a structure tailored to a template that renders a...

Marcos Castro | 28.12.2015 17:09

I would like to start saying that this entry is focused on designers and front-ends but I think that it would be useful for all people who wants to know what is the real advantage to applying...

Marcos Castro | 27.12.2015 21:14

Hey guys, before this year ends I wanted to share with you some impressions and feedback which many of you have given me about the three free themes I have shared this year. First, I would like to...

Jan Eerdekens | 27.12.2015 19:11

If, like me, you work on a non-Windows machine, an Apple MacBook Pro in my case with OSX, you are probably used to having TAB completion in your terminal. I've caught myself multiple times lately...

Jorge Ferrer | 24.12.2015 17:47

Just in time to throw a big celebration we finally have achieved Beta status for Liferay 7! As mentioned in a previous blog entry, the criteria to meet Beta status is: Data upgrade finalized for...

Jose M. Navarro | 21.12.2015 08:41

Hey everyone! We're celebrating this new year with a new version: Liferay Screens 1.3! Last months we've been busy as crazy helping with our first enterprise projects using Liferay Screens. Some of...

Artur Signell | 20.12.2015 14:08

In Vaadin 7.2, server push support was introduced but only for servlet deployments. The initial plan was to add support for portlets "right after that release". That's not exactly what happened but...

Jorge Ferrer | 07.12.2015 14:58

You probably have not had time to digest Alpha 3 yet, but here we are again with a new preliminary release: Liferay 7 Alpha 4 is out! This release fixes 82 bugs resolved since Alpha 3 and adds 31...

Ray Augé | 01.12.2015 15:03

I really love how everyone at Liferay is taking to the OSGi development model. It makes me proud to see how much work has been done in this regard. There's one very cool area I think is worth...

Matti Tahvonen | 01.12.2015 09:47

The Liferay portal has always been a popular basis for Vaadin applications. To serve better this active Vaadin users group we have recently created a lot of new material for both new and existing...

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...

Javeed Chida | 25.11.2015 20:48

LRNAS2015 was everything I hoped it would be. Every session was packed with demos of upcoming 7.0 features that left anyone using 6.2 very grateful (I was) that they weren't on an even older...

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...

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:...

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...

Matti Tahvonen | 10.11.2015 08:06

Service Builder is the way how developers are often encouraged to do DB connectivity with Liferay portlets. It is, though, by no means the one and only way how one can connect to databases from...

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...

Olaf Kock | 03.11.2015 15:39

Wow, 50 episodes already. At this year's Devcon I spoke with Jens Bruhn. He's Software Architect at Prodyna AG, a Liferay Partner and the author of Nabucco Script Center, a Liferay App available on...

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...

Matti Tahvonen | 30.10.2015 22:53

Vaadin portlets initialise using JS and XHRs, typically a couple of milliseconds later than basic html markup based portlets. This approach may cause “flickering”, which may be a bit disturbing if...

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,...

James Falkner | 23.10.2015 15:22

Earlier this month Liferay held it's 3rd annual developer conference in Darmstadt, and I was grateful to be able to attend and see old friends, meet new ones, share some of my experiences, and...

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...

Olaf Kock | 17.10.2015 13:39

It's been a long time and finally... Radio Liferay is back with several episodes in the queue. Today, Tomáš Polešovský starts of by talking about Liferay's security team and -procedures as well as...

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...

David H Nebinger | 15.10.2015 06:32

So I'm here late one night and I'm wondering why Liferay is hosting profile pics... I mean, in this day and age we all have accounts all over the place and many of those places also support profile...

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...

James Falkner | 13.10.2015 15:21

Next week Liferay España will hold its annual Liferay Symposium in beautiful Madrid. I'm grateful to be able to attend once again, but this year will be especially awesome because of the momentum...

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:...

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...

Lauri Hiltunen | 23.09.2015 16:15

The Expando API is a great tool to add custom data to the default models Liferay offers. We've used it regularly in our projects. Although the concept might overwhelm you at first, there’s no need...

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...

Matti Tahvonen | 16.09.2015 12:42

The easily customizable, SASS based, Valo theme is one of the largest renewals to Vaadin lately. The vaadin-archetype-liferay-portlet still uses the oldish “liferay” theme, adapted for older...

Abdon Pijpelink | 15.09.2015 14:16

Context is king In 1996, when the web was in its infancy, Bill Gates famously predicted that content would be king on the internet. Twenty years later it has become increasingly important to not...

Lauri Hiltunen | 14.09.2015 14:04

One of Liferay's more commonly used extension points is the application startup event. You can define custom code to run whenever your plugin is deployed. This is a powerful feature. In this blog...

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...