Blogs

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...

Vikash Kumar | Sep 29, 2015 9:46 AM

Liferay 6.x portal default portlet configuration does not display minimize and maximize icons on portlet headers. These buttons are only available to admin role users. For one of our projects, we...

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...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Sep 24, 2015 6:44 PM

Under The Hood: The Liferay Faces Generator The Liferay Faces Generator is a code generation tool used to create custom JavaServerTM Faces (JSF) components (such as the new Liferay Faces Alloy...

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...

Lauri Hiltunen | Sep 23, 2015 4:15 PM

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 | 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...

Matti Tahvonen | Sep 16, 2015 12:42 PM

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 | Sep 15, 2015 2:16 PM

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 | Sep 14, 2015 2:04 PM

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 | 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...

Lauri Hiltunen | Sep 8, 2015 5:12 PM

Liferay offers extensive set of features regarding user accounts and signing in to your portal out of the box. Many of the features are made configurable through portal properties, enabling the...

James Falkner | Sep 7, 2015 12:55 PM

My Documents View New Liferay Sync UI Today Liferay released Liferay Sync 3, the latest version of its popular document sharing add-on for Liferay. Download it from the Downloads page, read the...

Jyri Pötry | Sep 7, 2015 9:50 AM

How Liferay and Valamis solve regulatory compliance Companies today are facing an increasing number of regulations and need for transparency in their operations. Consequently, organizations are...