Blogs

Willem Vermeer | May 19, 2016 8:10 PM

While preparing for our annual Dutch Liferay User group meeting I tried to develop a simple MVC portlet accessing the Liferay 7 API. Somehow this took more time than I had expected - probably...

Javeed Chida | May 18, 2016 8:22 PM

If you've been using the Liferay CMS, you are probably familiar with a journal article's Categorization tab wherein you can specify the tags and the categories for the journal article. If you...

Cody Hoag | May 16, 2016 5:37 PM

Our inaugural Community Javadoc Contest officially ended last week, and we received some really good submissions. Luckily, there were two clear-cut winners, so the process of choosing our champions...

Neil Griffin | May 13, 2016 11:01 PM

The Liferay Faces team is moving closer towards the goal of releasing a JSF portlet bridge (and associated demos) for use with Liferay Portal 7.0 CE. Since this new version of the portal utilizes...

Javeed Chida | May 12, 2016 4:33 PM

I recently presented this to a group of non-technical users. The feedback was positive, and made me think this may be useful to others. Why did I make this presentation? I put this little...

Bryan H Cheung | May 3, 2016 7:31 AM

The internet has changed the way we live because it gives everyone an equal voice in a global conversation. No matter who you are or where you live, you can make yourself heard, whether by...

Greg Amerson | Apr 29, 2016 5:10 PM

The latest stable version of Liferay IDE 3.0.0 GA1 that supports Liferay 7 and OSGi/modular development has been released. For those that have installed Liferay IDE stable version, if you are...

Olaf Kock | Apr 22, 2016 5:24 PM

Today I'm welcoming a repeat guest and a new one: Jim Hinkey (of episode 21 fame) and Cody Hoag - both from Liferay's documentation and knowledge management team. This episode has unfortunately...

Javeed Chida | Apr 10, 2016 1:32 PM

I've been busy building web application content. A simple form with three fields Under the form, a table shows the previously added records The data in the table can grow to several hundred Blah...

Bryan H Cheung | Apr 7, 2016 6:55 PM

Today I’d like to let you know that Liferay Portal 7 Community does not have "out of the box" support for clustering, non-open source app servers (Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere), and non-open...

Olaf Kock | Apr 5, 2016 8:18 AM

Yay - Liferay 7 CE is out. As the exploration begins, I'm sure everybody first looks for their pet peeves. There's something that's been nagging me in 6.1 and 6.2 - and unfortunately I couldn't get...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 4, 2016 5:04 PM

Today Liferay released the next version of its flagship software: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE! [Download] [Quick Start] After many months of hard work from the Liferay product and engineering teams...

Neil Griffin | Mar 31, 2016 7:57 PM

The Liferay Faces team has been working hard on a variety of tasks, including: Support for JSF OSGi portlets with Liferay Portal 7.0 CE Maturing the source in our New Git Repositories Finalizing...

Angela Wu | Mar 31, 2016 7:14 PM

Get to the Heart of Customer Experience Customers expect meaningful interaction at every digital touchpoint with your company. How can you align modern technologies with customer interactions in a...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 21, 2016 10:15 PM

A little while ago I ran into a strange problem at a customer. We had written a hook that contained a small REST service that accepts a multipart POST to import a document and some related...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 20, 2016 7:34 PM

After building a hook that wraps the FakeSMTP application and a portlet that gives you file management capabilities in Liferay we now get to part 3 of the series: the CRaSH portlet. I must admit: I...

Olaf Kock | Mar 10, 2016 8:28 PM

Today I'm welcoming a repeat guest, Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering. I've had the great opportunity to ask him a lot of questions that provide deep insight into what's running behind the...

Dennis Ju | Mar 10, 2016 7:03 PM

The Sync team is pleased to announce SSO support in the latest releases of Liferay Sync desktop and mobile clients. Any SSO implementation that works against Liferay Portal will work with Liferay...

Cody Hoag | Mar 7, 2016 1:02 AM

Another Liferay contest is on the way! This one, however, is a bit different than others you may have participated in previously. To celebrate the upcoming release of Liferay 7, we are holding a...

Jan Eerdekens | Feb 29, 2016 9:10 PM

Part 2 of this series is a short, but sweet one. This portlet was born out of a very specific customer requirement: the need to be able to see log files for some user that have Liferay web access,...

Kailash Yadav | Feb 22, 2016 6:42 AM

Caching is important part of any web application. We implement caching for our application on different levels. Generally we cache static resource on web server level and DB level caching on...

Javeed Chida | Feb 19, 2016 8:40 PM

This is not really a technical post. In what follows, I share two little tips for Liferay 6.2 users. This may also be useful to developers, unless you prefer crafting SQL to solve all your data...

James Falkner | Feb 15, 2016 8:39 PM

Over the last 5 years if there's anything I've learned it's that the only thing that doesn't change is change itself. I've been blessed to have been a part of many exciting changes at Liferay and...

Olaf Kock | Feb 15, 2016 10:06 AM

In this episode I'm talking probably one last time to James Falkner about upcoming changes... James was the first guest on Radio Liferay (back in episode 1 - as well as others) and now - at least...

Jan Eerdekens | Feb 14, 2016 8:09 PM

This is part 1 of a series of blog posts about a collection of tools I created during the last couple of months as a reaction to some problems I ran into. The first one is how to handle/debug...

Jan Eerdekens | Feb 6, 2016 10:28 PM

In this post I want to share how you can use Maven to do 2 important things in a Liferay project: patching and creating a deploy package. While this way of patching is a very powerful way to...

Zeno Rocha | Feb 5, 2016 3:53 AM

Back in October when we first introduced Launchpad Developer Preview, we put together a very simple documentation page for users. After seeing how people were interacting with the product we...

Greg Amerson | Feb 3, 2016 6:57 PM

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 | Jan 26, 2016 10:03 AM

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 | Jan 23, 2016 12:06 AM

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 | Jan 19, 2016 4:05 PM

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 | Jan 17, 2016 8:26 PM

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 | Jan 17, 2016 2:22 PM

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 | Jan 14, 2016 9:13 PM

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 | Jan 14, 2016 1:11 PM

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 | Jan 8, 2016 2:44 PM

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 | Dec 28, 2015 6:10 PM

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 | Dec 28, 2015 5:09 PM

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 | Dec 27, 2015 9:14 PM

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 | Dec 27, 2015 7:11 PM

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...