Blogs

Marcel Mika | 2015-jan-28 01:57

Inter Portlet Communication (IPC) is a way of exchange the data between portlets. In Liferay there are different ways we can achieve this. One of them is the client-side IPC that is supported by...

Marcel Mika | 2015-jan-27 22:43

This tutorial describes all the necessary steps needed to integrate LIMS Messenger for Liferay to the Jabber (XMPP) server. If you are interested in LIMS Messenger for Liferay visit the official...

Olaf Kock | 2015-jan-27 15:01

Ich bin mal wieder auf Reisen - und zwar in Wien. Und welche bessere Gelegenheit Land und Leute kennenzulernen gibt es, als ein Liferay Community Meeting (oder Radio Liferay Hörertreffen)? Hofburg,...

David H Nebinger | 2015-jan-27 04:39

Liferay ships with a pretty old copy of Vaadin 6, but most documentation and examples out now are for Vaadin 7. It's pretty easy to upgrade the shared Vaadin environment to Vaadin 7, as simple as...

Krzysztof Gołębiowski | 2015-jan-24 14:07

It is a common practice to embed Web Content Articles in a theme. Once Web Content's were embedded using Web Content Display portlet, nowadays we can use journalContentUtil which is already visible...

Marcus Hjortzén | 2015-jan-23 15:25

Are you developing a large amount of plugins? Ever found yourself frustrated with having to manually deploy war-files to development, test and production (clustered?) environments? When performing...

Marcus Hjortzén | 2015-jan-21 15:09

I previously wrote a blog entry regarding Liferay Sync and ways to authenticate the application even when using SSO (and not really having access to the SSO-password). Apparently there was interest...

Olaf Kock | 2015-jan-20 09:03

A short Inbetweenisode on the release of 6.2 CE GA3 with repeat guest and Community Manager James Falkner. During Devcon James promised the release for the 15. January - while I stated that this...

Esther Sanz | 2015-jan-19 11:22

LA Unconference December 2014 December is always a very exciting time of the year when engineers gather in our LA office to discuss, work and have fun together. It is a time for reflection and to...

Marcus Hjortzén | 2015-jan-15 17:04

Why SSO? Using single sign on (SSO) is probably something that more and more systems aim towards. A large benefit is improved user experience, perhaps not so much for publically available sites....

James Falkner | 2015-jan-15 15:08

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA3! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start]...

Martin Yan | 2015-jan-13 23:58

Congratulations, you made it to the new year. You're still here, and with a bit of luck, so is your company. Or maybe not. But it's the new year, so at least you have some fresh resolve and a...

Zeno Rocha | 2015-jan-13 17:14

Originally published on Medium One of the cool things about working at Liferay is that you have the freedom to propose any crazy idea that comes to your head and there’s a high chance that they...

Jose M. Navarro | 2015-jan-13 11:09

Hi Liferay Screeners! After several months of hard work and few presentations to show you the first beta of Liferay Screens, we're ready to release this second beta. This version is full of fixes...

Chandan Sharma | 2015-jan-10 12:57

Liferay provides an API to call any methods using Reflection. First of all why do we use reflection API to call any method. In terms of liferay, liferay loads the classes from different scopes like...

Daniel Tyger | 2015-jan-09 16:37

Background and Need: Our campus portal (Site) administrators have a need to review permissions across their sites of various objects. In particular, we see requests for page, portlet, and Web...

Andrea Di Giorgi | 2014-dec-26 08:29

Hi everyone and Merry, Merry Christmas to all of you! In the last couple of months I had a lot of fun playing with Go, a very promising compiled, concurrent, garbage-collected, cross-platform...

Jorge Ferrer | 2014-dec-23 22:39

It’s the end of the year season and most programmers take a few days of to spend time with family and/or friends and of course check out some new technologies. While we know there are many exciting...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 2014-dec-17 19:13

On the Liferay Faces Team, we try to reply to as many posts in the Liferay Faces forums as we can. This has been extremely beneficial for our team and our project. If you're a developer, I want to...

Olaf Kock | 2014-dec-16 21:50

The nerdiest topic so far: I'm speaking to Thomas Schweiger, german national barista champion 2010-2012. He was sponsored by our german partner Prodyna to prepare coffee during this years Devcon...

David Kubitza | 2014-dec-14 14:43

At this year's Liferay DevCon, Suraj Bihari had an interesting session about short URLs. As I was about to do something like this anyway, I decided to make it public from the beginning. And now...

Olaf Kock | 2014-dec-12 00:49

I had a short meeting with Bryan Ho, Lead Graphic Designer at Liferay - With that role it's obvious that we're bridging the audio/visual gap again: A very visual topic in an audio only podcast. But...

Olaf Kock | 2014-dec-11 23:26

This is my conversation with Stian Sigvartsen, winner of the Marketplace App contest with his Social Apps Proxy (Link) and well known member of the UK Liferay usergroup, working in Devon and quite...

Jamie Sammons | 2014-dec-08 19:02

The Audience Targeting app enhances the engagement experience of your portal by providing the right information in the right context to your visitors in new and exciting ways. Audience Targeting...

Olaf Kock | 2014-dec-04 11:27

I'm talking with Brett Swaim, Principal Consultant at Liferay US, on application performance monitoring, horror stories and things to avoid. Brett is dealing with a lot of customers. He's one of...

Olaf Kock | 2014-dec-04 11:04

Another Devcon conversation - make sure not to miss this event next year! I grabbed Chema Balsas, Software Engineer at Liferay Spain, and Emil Öberg, Consultant at Monator Technologies, a Liferay...

Olaf Kock | 2014-dec-04 09:45

At Devcon, I took the opportunity to meet several people - stay tuned for several more episodes during the rest of this year. For this episode, I spoke with Zsigmond Rab. Zsigmond is Lead Engineer,...

Meera Prince | 2014-dec-04 08:56

Portlet is small fragment of dynamic content in the web page. And this dynamic content may be text,HTML,xml or some other MIME format. Portlet technology implemented by JSR 168 and JSR 286...

Juan Fernández | 2014-nov-28 12:32

Dear community! Based on market research and community feedback, we’ve seen that more and more companies are using location-based information to make important decisions. Also usage of...

Andrea Di Giorgi | 2014-nov-27 01:19

Greetings to all! As a proud member of this community, I always wanted to show my appreciation towards Liferay, its philosophy and the great people behind it. And that's why I spent the last few...

Greg Amerson | 2014-nov-26 07:44

Just a quite notice that we have pushed a new release of Liferay IDE version 2.2.1 that just pushes a few fixes for the latest major release including a nasty memory, GC bug here that would affect...

Cody Hoag | 2014-nov-25 21:26

You may have noticed that Liferay's new OAuth Provider application was released on Marketplace last week. This utility authorizes third-party applications to interact with a user’s resources. OAuth...

Nicholas Gaskill | 2014-nov-21 20:38

I'm pleased to announce that there are two new tutorials on Liferay's Developer Network (LDN) for helping you with your Liferay Maven projects in Liferay IDE. Maven is a great build tool, but it...

Meera Prince | 2014-nov-20 13:26

When we work with liferay 6.2 portlet development some time we may get null or empty values when we access request parameters or form input values in the portlet action class. The reason is from...

Josiah Harrist | 2014-nov-19 22:11

Corporate data is a very fragile and important thing. It’s the kind of thing you don’t want to break, the same way you don’t want to break a favorite vase. Or an airplane. The cleanup tends to be...

James Falkner | 2014-nov-19 22:04

Wow. Just.. WOW. It's Liferay's 10th anniversary, and I've been blessed to be able to be a part of it the last several years, including this year. A big round of applause goes to you and our entire...

Marcus Hjortzén | 2014-nov-19 09:50

Feature toggling Have you ever had the delicate problem where you've made a new feature that the customer doesn't wish to activate quite yet? What do you do? One option is of course to comment out...

priti parmar | 2014-nov-19 08:50

If content creator wants to decide during creation in which order the different elements will be displayed in the article then there should be a field like DisplayOrder which decide the position of...

David Kubitza | 2014-nov-18 07:37

For all interested people which participated this years Unconference, here you have the information of my session: Sometimes one have the requirement to load a certain plugin before another. It's...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | 2014-nov-17 20:39

Hola chic@s, Lo prometido es deuda y aquí podéis encontrar un pequeño sitio web que iré actualizando periódicamente con toda la información necesaria sobre el evento. Por el momento sólo están...