Blogs

Jonas Yuan | Sep 14, 2010 12:24 AM

The portal provides a framework to add custom attributes or called custom fields to any Service-Builder generated entities at runtime where indexed values, text boxes, and selection lists for input...

Paul Hinz | Sep 11, 2010 1:08 AM

Liferay 6EE is complete and was launched at Liferay's West Coast Symposium. It should be obvious now we were purposely quiet leading up to this launch but now with the hood off, there are several...

Julio Camarero | Sep 7, 2010 3:51 PM

(See English version below) En octubre se celebrará en Málaga (España) el Open Source World Conference, una de las conferencias más importantes en materia de software libre a nivel europeo. Desde...

Igor Spasić | Sep 7, 2010 2:00 PM

These are some quick steps how to use Derby DB with Portal 6. (1) Prepare Portal Database This shall be done only once. + modify derby/bin/ij.bat by adding: set...

satya ranjan | Sep 6, 2010 3:59 PM

If you are a NetBeans user and always wanted to try Portal Pack with latest NetBeans 6.9 and LIferay 6, here is the good news. So there is a new version Portal Pack 3.0.4 available at Portal Pack...

Jonas Yuan | Sep 4, 2010 4:50 PM

In previous blogs post, we had discussed applying workflow on Liferay portal core assets. It is true that Liferay 6 integrates workflow system like jBPM or Kaleo on any assets, either core assets...

Igor Spasić | Sep 3, 2010 10:18 AM

Liferay portal can be deployed to many app servers. Cool thing is that from version 6 there are ant targets for downloading and preparing app server of your choice. (1) Download and prepare app...

Igor Spasić | Sep 1, 2010 8:00 PM

By default, liferay themes uses velocity templates. For example, classic theme (.../tomcat-6.0.x/webapps/ROOT/html/themes/classic/templates) uses several (*.vm) velocity templates. But Liferay...

Igor Spasić | Sep 1, 2010 2:43 PM

I use IntelliJ IDEA for portal and plugins development. Also, I currently experiment with different project configuration and, therefore, have IntelliJ module files (*.iml) everywhere. For now, I...

Mika Koivisto | Sep 1, 2010 3:32 AM

That's a question I've head many times and in this post I will show you just how to do that. These instructions are for Liferay 6 CE GA3 Tomcat 6.0 bundle however you can use any app server...

Paul Hinz | Sep 1, 2010 2:09 AM

Igor Spasić | Aug 31, 2010 9:18 AM

Portal minifies JS and CSS; and optimizes HTML (by stripping unnecessary characters, etc). Such files are optimized for production, but not for humans :) that dig into the code during development...

Igor Spasić | Aug 31, 2010 9:04 AM

public class Liferay { String $ = "YIYEEILLI:L" + "FIYRELYR)IoLERoLtIaAFF" + "lILRpLYIlLaIARoLRLoIlL" + "YAoIRRrYFY." ; String $$= "LIFERAY.portal:)"; String $$$ ="liferay.com"; byte[] o;int...

Mika Koivisto | Aug 24, 2010 6:21 PM

Freemarker is a template language very similar to Velocity. Starting from Liferay 6.0 Liferay supports also Freemarker templates in themes and Web Content templates. In this post I will show how...

Alexander Chow | Aug 24, 2010 10:59 AM

For a while now, Liferay has offered Basic authentication for various servlets (e.g., WebDAV, JSON, etc.). For the most part, this has suited most of our needs. However, recently, there have been...

Barrie Selack | Aug 23, 2010 2:34 AM

This is the second part of a series of blogs and wiki articles on using gadgets in Liferay. In the blog we'll look at a gadget in action and in the associated wiki post we'll breakdown the gadget,...

Jonas Yuan | Aug 21, 2010 7:12 AM

As you know, Liferay 6 integrates workflow system like jBPM or Kaleo on any assets finally. By this feature, users are able to manage the content creation process with a workflow. Out-of-the-box,...

Shepherd Ching | Aug 19, 2010 2:00 AM

Draft version 1 With synergy of JFreechart and Liferay, I create a jfreechart-portlet in Liferay for enterprise usage. It combines features JFreeChart's professional presentation and Liferay...

Wilson Man | Aug 18, 2010 4:23 AM

Liferay 6.0 now comes with an additional Single Sign-On option - Facebook SSO using OAuth 2.0. Setup is quite easy. Let me walk you through the steps below. 1. In order for Facebook SSO to work,...

Brian Chan | Aug 16, 2010 11:20 PM

GA 3 is a bug fix release for GA 2. Changes are available on our Issue Tracker. Downloads are available on SF.net.

Paul Hinz | Aug 13, 2010 11:21 PM

Liferay 6 EE is almost done - it's great - and we're having a party. Over the last year and a half, most of Liferay spent heads down digging through reports, reviews, strategies, ideas, code,...

Barrie Selack | Aug 12, 2010 3:53 PM

This is the first part of a series of blogs and wiki articles on using gadgets in Liferay. In this first part we'll discuss gadgets use and how to deploy a gadget. So, will gadgets replace...

Ronald Sarayudej | Aug 7, 2010 12:02 AM

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Region: Canada Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.1 Since its first $2,000 auction in 1958, Ritchie Bros. has conducted thousands of unreserved public auctions worldwide. Its...

Ronald Sarayudej | Aug 4, 2010 12:07 AM

LOT Polish Airlines Region: Poland Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Since 1928, LOT Polish Airlines has met the transportation needs of individual and corporate customers flying to and from Poland...

Samuel Liu | Aug 2, 2010 11:03 PM

Today was my first day playing with the Liferay IDE. It is really good! It basically streamlines all the little processes that create friction for Liferay developers and lets you handle everything...

Neil Griffin | Jul 30, 2010 4:38 PM

During a recent class I taught on ICEfaces, one of my students asked me why the calendar was often one day off from what got posted back to the model managed-bean setter. For example: // Facelets...

Jorge Ferrer | Jul 30, 2010 10:23 AM

Después de un año de pausa este año vuelve de nuevo la Open Source World Conference en Málaga. Después del gran éxito del Symposium en Madrid, nos hemos quedado con ganas de más y hemos pensado que...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jul 29, 2010 10:38 PM

Barcelona Bus Turistic Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Established in 1987, Barcelona Bus Turístic is the official sightseeing tour of the city. Open to all, this sightseeing service is...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jul 27, 2010 10:38 PM

DAN: Divers Alert Network Region: Europe Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 DAN helps divers in need, 24/7, anywhere in the world, with medical emergency assistance, and promotes diving safety through...

Jorge Ferrer | Jul 27, 2010 10:32 AM

Along with all the functional and architectural improvements of Liferay 6, we've also tried to improve our release process based on the feedback that we've received from the community and customers...

Juan Fernández | Jul 26, 2010 11:54 AM

A new functionallity in Liferay 6 are the so called "Sanitizers". What are sanitizers? Sanitizers are a filtering element that "sanitize" web content (usually HTML or javascript code) so that it...

Ray Augé | Jul 25, 2010 4:50 AM

We've been saying for a long time that you could write plugins in a variety of languages, but we never really had any examples to prove that. Of course some languages will be far simpler to achieve...

Brian Chan | Jul 23, 2010 4:40 PM

GA 2 is a quick bug fix release for GA 1 that was released last week. It includes many bug fixes. Thanks to everyone who helped out. New features for Liferay 6 are listed on our Wiki. Release notes...

Nate Cavanaugh | Jul 20, 2010 4:03 PM

One of the biggest feature requests from Liferay 5.2 was the ability to upgrade the included version of jQuery. Many users would like to use third-party plugins, and most of those require the...

Brian Chan | Jul 16, 2010 12:20 AM

Whew. Just finished the upload the Liferay Portal 6 GA! We hope you enjoy this release. Thank you for letting us serve you. We'll be blog'ng, wiki'ng, webinar'ng, and document'ng the many new...

Ray Augé | Jul 15, 2010 9:44 PM

Some of the latest details about Liferay Staging in 6.0 are now on the Wiki: Staging - 6.0 Local Live Remote Live Better Differential Publishing Stored connections settings for remote staging (as...

Samuel Liu | Jul 13, 2010 10:09 PM

Moved to the Liferay Community Wiki

Zsolt Berentey | Jul 13, 2010 1:24 PM

Social Equity is a brand new feature in Liferay version 6. It is based on the white paper and calculations of Peter Reiser from SUN Microsystems. The objective is to build a dynamic social capital...

Juan Fernández | Jul 13, 2010 10:28 AM

Hi guys! One of the many great improvements of Liferay 6 is the workflow system, as many of you already know. We have been working hard on it and we have developed lots of new functionallities that...

Sergio González | Jul 13, 2010 7:22 AM

Liferay 6 offers a new functionality to easily manage sites and pages by using templates. New templates can be designed in Page Templates and Site Templates sections in Control Panel....

Samuel Liu | Jul 12, 2010 11:57 PM

I wanted to write an easy installation guide among other things. This is how to install Liferay's Tomcat Bundle on your system and to get it running with ease. Linux & OSX 1) Download and install...

Greg Amerson | Jul 12, 2010 2:03 PM

As as follow-up to the Helios compatible release of Liferay IDE (v1.0.1), I wanted to let everyone know that there is another installation method now available through the Eclipse marketplace. The...

Greg Amerson | Jul 9, 2010 7:54 PM

The Eclipse Helios release has been available for a couple of weeks now so I wanted to let everyone know that we just released a new update to the Liferay IDE (v1.0.1) in order to support it . ...

Shuyang Zhou | Jul 8, 2010 6:30 AM

Liferay is heavily using Spring's aop. Spring's aop is doing an amazing job to make your life easy by making your code clean. So why i am creating something new, if the exist one is good enough?...

Shuyang Zhou | Jul 7, 2010 6:26 AM

If you have read my previous blog, you must already know StringBundler. StringBundler can improve your String processing performance a lot, but it is still not enough. Now answer this question: In...

Jonas Yuan | Jul 6, 2010 6:11 PM

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change...

Shuyang Zhou | Jul 5, 2010 8:05 AM

2010's benchmark and optimization is reaching the end, it is time to write something about what we did in last few months. Today we will talk about an EE-only feature, a new ehcache cluster...

Julio Camarero | Jul 3, 2010 10:12 AM

Yes, you can! We have seen lately many people asking about this in the forums and several projects. Liferay 5.2 uses uses jQuery 1.2.6. and many people wonder if they can use a different version...

Michael Young | Jul 1, 2010 11:28 PM

In an earlier post I demonstrated how to add OpenSocial Gadgets as first-class citizens within Liferay. In this post I'd like to show you how we have created a custom preferences UI. This sample...

Joshua Asbury | Jun 30, 2010 3:22 PM

I'm a fervent reader of business books and blogs. Seth Godin is one of my favorites, and in a recent post entitled "A Sad Truth About Most Traditional B2B Marketing", his wisdom shines through. ...

Thiago Leão Moreira | Jun 28, 2010 4:52 AM

Caros Brasileiros, É com alegria e satisfação que lhes comunico que a tradução do Liferay para a língua Portuguesa variação Brasileira foi revisada e corrigida manualmente todas as suas 5000+...

Ray Augé | Jun 22, 2010 9:57 PM

I haven't been blogging as much as I'd like... My return to core after a long year+ on a project hasn't turned out quite the way I had envisioned. (Don't get me wrong, I'm SOOOO happy to be back;...

Manish Kumar Gupta | Jun 16, 2010 10:40 AM

Thanks to our ever growing community of Liferay translator, Liferay now has translation available for 34 languages out of the box. The latest addition is Hebrew (Israel) language. Here is the...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jun 15, 2010 7:28 PM

Wolong Electric Group Co,.Ltd Region: China Version: Liferay Portal 4.3 Wolong Electric Group Co.,Ltd is located in Shangyu economic development zone laid in Zhejiang Hangzhou Bay in the center of...

Greg Amerson | Jun 15, 2010 4:09 PM

Now that Liferay 6.0 RC2 is available, we just released version 1.0 of the Liferay IDE. Thanks to everyone that has been waiting patiently. I know that I promised it last month so I hope it was...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jun 14, 2010 11:24 PM

Xiamen C&D Corporation Limited Region: China Version: Liferay Portal 4.3 Xiamen C&D was set up in 1980 with the establishment of Xiamen Special Economic Zone. After enduring in the market for more...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jun 14, 2010 6:12 PM

Scientix Region: Europe Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Scientix – the community for science education in Europe – was created to facilitate regular dissemination and sharing of know-how and best...

Ronald Sarayudej | Jun 14, 2010 5:40 PM

Cloud Commons Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Cloud Commons is a dynamic and practical community about the cloud. Cloud Commons provides the opportunity to network with a global...

Jonas Yuan | Jun 11, 2010 9:44 PM

Liferay 6 integrates workflow engines like jBPM or Kaleo on any assets finally. This feature has been expected for a while. By this feature, users are able to manage the content creation process...

Brett Swaim | Jun 9, 2010 9:26 PM

After viewing Bruno's blog, I decided to show it at ECS during two of my presentations. There are some changes though in trunk, and I wanted to make sure to reflect those changes to you all....