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1-action-forward - Contains the basic files needed to display a JSP. Describes key aspects of the core files. 2-tiles - Covers tiles, adding the portlet to a category and internationalization. 3-render - Add an action class, the render method and a renderURL 4-processAction - Add processAction and validation 5-service-builder - Covers Liferay's Service...

People seemed to like the "hey buddy, want to hear a secret?" nature of my last post, and in that tradition, I will try to drop some tips about some of the lesser known ways of playing around with the Liferay themes. Browser Selectors In Liferay since 4.3, we've used a method of browser detection called Browser Selectors. What this does is allows you to style your theme for...

Sometimes you want some ability to tweak your Liferay theme at runtime... Note: Don't do this when you are packaging a theme for public consumption. It's very easy to add some "on-line" editability/tweakability to your themes, because we all know that we never get it just right the first time... and finding a bug inevitably happens the moment it goes live and/or you are...

Many people ask how to build portlets which display Flash (SWF) content in the portal with options for changing and controlling that content. Well, you don't have to build a portlet to handle this. I mean, you can... but you don't have too. Liferay provides all the tools you need to do this right out of the CMS and you can give yourself as much control as you like while still making...

Chinese New Year started last Thursday but is still in full effect. I wanted to make sure I got to wish everyone who celebrates this holiday a wonderful rest of the holiday. Enjoy family, eat hearty and stay healthy!

I know the title should probably read "What's new in 4.4.0", or even "4.4.1" (which was just released). But, we've made so many fixes after those two releases that it's worth it to skip right ahead to 4.4.2 (which will likely be out next month). This will likely be the case moving right up to 5.0, but if I wait till then I'll have so much to write about it'll be to much of a chore...

I'm not sure if everyone out there surfing the interwebs has noticed, but we've been quietly releasing a lot of really, really cool themes recently. As a relatively non-technical person, the thought of downloading a .war file and deploying it to the right directory, was somewhat daunting. At one point I remember thinking, "Wouldn't it be nice if there was a quick, painless, and...

 Pass. Fail. Pass. Fail. Fail. Pass. These words have just about defined the testing I've been doing over the past couple weeks. If perhaps by some galactic anomaly you haven't noticed, Liferay has slowly (actually, very quickly) been implementing a *brand new* Selenium testing framework. In a very short frame of time we've gone from having 0 tests to the 191 tests that are in...

Our recent announcement about jQuery caused a lot of confusion among the JSF camp because it seemed to contradict another announcement we made a few months ago concerning ICEfaces. So this blog is meant to clear that up. ICEfaces serves the need of abstracting Javascript from Java developers. It does that very well. It allows Java developers to develop using JSF to implement...

What is Milli Vanilli theme making? According to Jonathan Neal's Alliterated Dictionary of Natural Selection it is "The act or process of designing admirable and successful graphical interfaces for the Liferay product with an infamous, immediate and inevitable revelation of un-originality brought upon the user".  In short, this means that these are fully functional themes for...

Have you ever wanted to plugin to Liferay's javascript functions, but didn't want to modify the original Javascript, and didn't want to branch off of it? I know I have. For instance, let's say that there is a Liferay javascript function that always adds a class, but you don't want to add that class, and instead want to use your own. Well, there is a little known method that does this...

In 4.3.x, our out of the box Glassfish bundle was over 220 megs and only worked on Windows. In 4.4.x, with the help of Raju from Sun, we were able to create bundles for Glassfish around 135 megs in size. It provides a full JEE stack. I'm actually quite impressed with the speed and the GUI console from Glassfish. All in all, I think it's a pretty good replacement for WebLogic AS...

I always thought that it would be very nice if we could compare text files in the document library portlet, just like we developers do with different versions of source code. I finally implemented this diff tool and had a lot of fun!For the first time I think I've made something similar to test-driven development and it'd proven to be very useful for this kind of algorithm in which a...

A few months ago, Peter "The Man" Shin started working on a new theme for Liferay, called, appropriately enough, Desktop. Yes, I know we already had a theme called Desktop, but to be honest, it wasn't the greatest theme in the world. The different "OS's" was actually just different backgrounds on the same theme. So, to the rescue, Peter went through and created a new theme, with 3...

I don't think I have ever run into anyone who had a love for tests. And if I by some way I am suffering a form of amnesia and HAVE met someone who loved tests I would have derided and mocked that person as a masochist. A masochist who had no love for life. Of course a big part of our lives are determined by tests, or could even be defined by tests. Knowing this, in my former life...

Enhancements include: An improved User and Organization System Users can now be members of more than one Organization Locations are now an Organization Type Roles can now be scoped by Organization LDAP Integration has been improved Improved Content Management, Staging and Import / Export Automatic document conversion to...

This is an OLD one. September 2006 Public Training was held in Los Angeles, CA

January 2008 Public Training was held in Los Angeles, CA.

My Liferay. Part 1. Handball Haiku. the liferay weather,it's showering handball games,small ball, big ball, fun. My Liferay. Part 2. A Plural People. Here at Liferay I'm thunderstruck by the rich, thoroughgoing cultural diversities that make up my daily work enviroment. My coworkers, along with myself, form an intense, immense abundance of experiences, knowledge, and...