Blogs

Ray Augé | Dec 1, 2015 3:03 PM

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...

Nicole Xavier | Dec 1, 2015 11:34 AM

If you want to learn more regarding the legal aspects using Liferay Community Edition (CE) and/or Liferay Enterprise Edition (EE) you are welcome to join our webinar ‘Legal aspects of the Liferay...

James Falkner | Nov 30, 2015 7:57 PM

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 | Nov 30, 2015 10:19 AM

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 | Nov 26, 2015 9:24 PM

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 | Nov 25, 2015 12:00 AM

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 | Nov 24, 2015 9:33 PM

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 | Nov 20, 2015 3:15 PM

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 | Nov 17, 2015 4:43 PM

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 | Nov 16, 2015 11:57 PM

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 | Nov 16, 2015 2:43 PM

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 | Nov 10, 2015 7:00 PM

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 | Nov 9, 2015 11:07 AM

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 | Nov 4, 2015 5:50 PM

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 | Nov 3, 2015 1:36 PM

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 | Nov 2, 2015 12:38 PM

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 | Nov 2, 2015 11:44 AM

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 | Oct 28, 2015 10:43 PM

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 | Oct 20, 2015 3:36 PM

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 | Oct 19, 2015 6:32 PM

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 | Oct 18, 2015 10:09 PM

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 | Oct 16, 2015 6:10 PM

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 | Oct 15, 2015 4:53 PM

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 | Oct 14, 2015 8:01 AM

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 | Oct 12, 2015 8:55 PM

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 | Oct 6, 2015 8:50 AM

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 | Oct 4, 2015 6:23 PM

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 | Sep 30, 2015 4:02 PM

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 | Sep 29, 2015 9:49 PM

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 | Sep 28, 2015 9:51 PM

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 | Sep 28, 2015 3:51 PM

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 | Sep 28, 2015 10:48 AM

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 | Sep 25, 2015 3:19 PM

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 | Sep 25, 2015 1:41 PM

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 | Sep 25, 2015 6:51 AM

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 | Sep 23, 2015 9:41 PM

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 | Sep 16, 2015 3:55 PM

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 | Sep 8, 2015 7:02 PM

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 | Aug 31, 2015 10:04 AM

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 | Aug 24, 2015 11:03 AM

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...