Blogs

Neil Griffin | Dec 18, 2013 8:15 PM

Introduction Java EE 7 includes the new JSR 344 (JSF 2.2) standard and provides developers with new features like Resource Library Contracts, HTML5 Friendly Markup, and Faces Flows. The Liferay...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Dec 17, 2013 7:50 AM

All the OSGi related contents we have seen so far during previous blog entries are related to backend systems. There is no other reason that my daily work basics happens under the services, sorry...

Beatriz Escobar | Dec 16, 2013 4:13 PM

La situación económica actual potencia la necesidad de las organizaciones de ser capaces de cambiar rápidamente, para dar respuesta inmediata a los cambios del entorno –tanto previstos como...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Dec 16, 2013 11:50 AM

A few months ago I pushed into the Liferay 's plugins repository the ability to write Scala code in the Liferay portlets but, to be honest, the support was quite poor since the Scala code was only...

Meera Prince | Dec 16, 2013 3:30 AM

Sharing Liferay Service Layer between two plugin portlet contexts Objective: Using one plug-in portlet services in other plug-in portlet. In liferay we develop portlets in plug-in portlet...

Ronald Sarayudej | Dec 14, 2013 3:11 PM

I promise to blog about behavioral analytics soon. Promise. But I have a valueable tangent that I think will be helpful to many (including myself). Let's get productive What I want to share about...

Ryan Schuhler | Dec 11, 2013 5:50 PM

Tables tables tables. Tables are used all over the web. Some people hate them, some people love them. No matter your opinion on tables, there are many cases where html tables are effective and...

Greg Amerson | Dec 4, 2013 5:51 PM

I'd like to annouce that we have pushed a new release of Liferay IDE 2.0 Milestone 3 to the milestones updatesite. http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/latest/milestone/ Since this is an Eclipse...

Máté Thurzó | Dec 3, 2013 6:05 PM

The Liferay 6.2 CE and EE is now officially out with tons of new features and new look including some long anticipated staging features as well. What are these features? User interface changes The...

Ray Augé | Nov 22, 2013 3:55 PM

When is breaking something not a bad thing? When it's done with purpose. When the result is better than the original. So, if you know you have broken something, and that means it's broken for...

Ray Augé | Nov 22, 2013 5:05 AM

The other day I posted about setting up to baseline Liferay for detecting violations to semantic versioning. Today we made another advance to make it even simpler. We created an OBR (OSGi Bundle...

Ray Augé | Nov 20, 2013 2:58 PM

Currently in master when the report is printed I see this (among many others): * com.liferay.portal.kernel.dao.search MINOR 6.2.0 6.2.0 6.3.0 VERSION INCREASE REQUIRED < class...

Ray Augé | Nov 19, 2013 8:36 PM

As mentioned in a previous post, you may have noticed the reports that are spit out when doing portal builds in the last couple of weeks. These reports show API changes based on a baseline API...

Travis Cory | Nov 18, 2013 11:37 PM

Have you ever thought that Liferay could use a little more Instagram? With the power of the Instagram API and the mighty Alloy-UI resource it is possible to integrate Instagram onto your page....

Jorge Ferrer | Nov 18, 2013 4:22 PM

Continuing with my series of "New in 6.2" entries, today I want to put the focus on a more technical aspect of the new version: the fact that it provides support for Twitter Bootstrap out of the...

Olaf Kock | Nov 18, 2013 2:08 PM

For this episode I spoke with Daniel Sanz. He's a support engineer in the spanish office and is responsible to oversee the translation efforts on Liferay. We talked about He's the one to keep the...

James Falkner | Nov 15, 2013 7:43 PM

At Liferay's first ever Developer Conference in Berlin last month, I had the privilege to present my experiences in building apps with Liferay WCM (similar to the techniques discussed in a prior...

Olaf Kock | Nov 13, 2013 12:11 PM

At Devcon 2013 I've met with Greg Amerson, main Author/Team Lead for the Eclipse-based tooling (Liferay IDE & DevStudio) and David Truong, one of the very early employees of Liferay, Product...

James Falkner | Nov 11, 2013 8:56 PM

As 2013 comes to a close, I'd like to once again thank each and every one of you who have done your part to improve our community through valued participation and contribution. I know I sound like...

James Falkner | Oct 31, 2013 7:33 PM

Today Liferay released the next version of its flagship software: Liferay Portal 6.2 CE! [Download] [Quick Start] The Liferay product and engineering teams, in close concert with our awesome...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 31, 2013 5:49 PM

In my last blog entry I explained the thought process we followed to improve the Dockbar. What some of you may have noticed is that I skipped talking about three elements that used to be in the...

James Falkner | Oct 31, 2013 2:46 PM

As we approach the end of 2013, we also approach the end of the annual Liferay Conferences (the final two events are coming up: Liferay Portal Solutions Forum in London, and the Liferay Italy...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 29, 2013 12:24 PM

Hey guys, The 6.2 release is almost out and I want to use this opportunity to talk about some of the improvements we have done to the dockbar. For those newer to Liferay, the Dockbar is the nick...

Ray Augé | Oct 29, 2013 2:05 AM

Liferay is in the initial phase of semantically versioning all it's java source code. Yay! What? If you don't know what semantic versioning is, here are two essential references on the subject:...

Iliyan Peychev | Oct 24, 2013 11:17 AM

Last week, during Liferay Spain Symposium 2013, Olaf Kock recorded a new episode for Liferay Radio with your truly. I talked about my life as developer in Liferay, about the development process of...

Olaf Kock | Oct 22, 2013 7:03 PM

At Devcon 2013 I met with Miguel Pastor and Ray Auge, both Engineers and Core Developers at Liferay. They both have been involved in the latest modularization efforts, resulting in OSGi being now...

Brett Swaim | Oct 16, 2013 5:27 PM

I have had many clients ask me if Liferay has management scripts for Apache Tomcat. While Liferay doesn't officially recommend any particular way to start/stop Tomcat, I have found this works...

Gwowen Fu | Oct 15, 2013 2:36 PM

I need a quick way to update 20+ permissions among 100+ permissions for each document uploaded. So this script does the job.

Martin Yan | Oct 14, 2013 4:27 PM

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso My job as a marketer has never been more fun and challenging. The conversation in the...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Oct 11, 2013 7:15 PM

We are pleased to announce the release of Social Office 2.1 EE on Marketplace. Since our first release of SO 2.0 last year, we have been steadily working towards refining the features to provide...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 10, 2013 5:20 AM

First of all I would like to apologize to all of you who where expecting Raymond but got me instead. Sorry about that. Through the talk I did a quick summary of why modularity is important for us,...

Juan Fernández | Oct 9, 2013 3:38 PM

As I promised on my previous post (Liferay 6.2 new mobile features (pt. 1)), here’s the follow-up blog entry with a description of more features and improvements related to mobile we are going to...

Jeffrey Handa | Oct 9, 2013 1:11 PM

(We’re offering a worldwide Liferay Certification promotion October-November! See below for details.) Since the launch of the Liferay Certification Program, I’ve had many people ask me what’s the...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 9, 2013 10:09 AM

The first Liferay DevCon has just started in Berlin and we just can't wait to present the world all new features in version 6.2. So I'm writing the second part of my blog about New Ways of...

Manuel de la Peña | Oct 8, 2013 1:43 PM

Hello Continuous Readers! I'm here again to share a new CI practice in a very small pill. Do you remember a time when you had some tests that continuously failed, and nobody had bandwith to work...

Juan Fernández | Oct 8, 2013 12:11 PM

Hi community! One of the most important and remarkable improvements of the new version of Liferay Portal are the new mobile capabilities that come out of the box. We will be presenting these...

Jorge Ferrer | Oct 3, 2013 2:49 PM

Liferay's architecture is pretty lean, but there are lots of things to learn about it. What would you be interested in learning? I'm doing a talk next week in Liferay's DevCon in Berlin about...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 1, 2013 2:58 PM

Next week Liferay will hold the first Developer Conference (DevCon) in Berlin. Liferay experts from all around the world will meet up to share their experience and review the latest features of...

Jorge Ferrer | Sep 25, 2013 9:58 AM

The 6.2 release is very very close. Those who have talked with the core team about it know that we have been working hard since the 6.1 release to increase the predictability of the releases and at...

James Falkner | Sep 25, 2013 3:55 AM

You may have noticed over the weekend that Liferay released a first "Release Candidate" build named RC1. Download it here: Tomcat Bundle GlassFish Bundle JBoss Bundle Other Files Documentation...