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Just a quick hello from JavaOne.   We're on our way to the Moscone Center! My first JavaOne.   At last! The Moscone Center.   Getting ready on the floor. Ce looks confused already.   Nothing that coffee can't fix.   Liferay! Get your Liferay!

Why I want to render portlet(s) from different page context? A user can belong to multiple organizations and communities. Each organization or community has its public and private pages which holding set of portlets. Those portlets was acting in the context of current organization or community. The idea is to enable a portlet mirrored into a specified page so a user can aggregate...

Well, I decided this week, while I was "in the field" that I would give GMail a try. I've had an account for a long time now, but I'm used to having everything local on a machine where I store gigs and gigs of mail from at least the past 8-9 years. I'm a email pack-rat I guess.. but it has saved my butt more than once. But, it's hard to carry around a desktop just...

There is an issue with JSF Portlet (Woodstock portlet) with page navigation created by Portal Pack 3.x and running on Liferay Server. So if you have page navigation inside jsf portlet, then no component in the portlet is shown when try to navigate to the a second page.But if you reload the page, the portlet is shown properly. This behaviour is there only with Firefox, but it works fine...

I have the privilege of speaking about Social Networking Portlets with ICEfaces Ajax Push at the following three conferences: JSF Summit Dec 1-4, 2009Orlando, FL CommunityOne West Here I'll be co-speaking with Ed Burns, who is co-chairman of the JSR 314 (JSF 2.0) Expert Group June 1-3, 2009 The Moscone Center San Francisco Map...

The Portal Pack 3.0.1 final is now available for download. Though this is a minor release, but there are few key new features added in this release. Also for this release, we got a valuable contribution from community ( "Liferay 5.2.x on JBOSS 5.x support" ) and thanks to John Platts for this contribution. Here are the list of new features added in this release : ...

A common story we hear from the community and our customers is that Liferay has a lot of powerful features.  However, it is difficult for those who want to just create a community and start collaborating.  They have to first create layouts, then add portlets, and then update portlets.   ...

After many months of testing, tuning, and more testing, we have finally completed the tuning and benchmarking of the portal.  We finished the tunings for 5.1 Enterprise over a month ago and are in the final processes of tuning for 5.2 Enterprise. Based on feedback from some of our enterprise subscription customers,...

The web has changed. You can call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0 or whatever you want but the truth is that websites are now more than ever interconected. Originally we had links, later came the ability to syndicate contents through feeds and some websites became an aggregation of many other sites, and now we are experiencing a proliferation of the so called mashups. What is a mashup? It's a...

Back in October 2008 at the JSFOne conference, I was interviewed by Kito Mann of JSF Central regarding Liferay and ICEfaces. The podcast and transcript were recently published at the JSF Central website: http://www.jsfcentral.com/listings/R4013?link Among the topics discussed are: Liferay and JSF Liferay and ICEfaces JSR-314 JSF 2.0 JSR-301...

Recently, I had to configure LR to IBM's DB-2 Database.I tried this on my windows machine. If you are installing on any other OS, you could use these steps as a guideline, the steps would be pretty similar though. Here are the steps.Step 1:I downloaded DB-2 9.5 Express from here.This is a trial version that is valid for 90 days.Step 2:Install DB2. It is pretty straight forward.Step...

Well, over the last couple years I've been largely working from a laptop. I thought I liked it... until recently I simply needed more power. I went ahead and did some research and found that there was an amazing deal out there that was simply too good to pass up. The Dell Studio XPS, featuring the new Intel i7 series processor. This thing is simply amazing. It...

I wanted to explore the staging feature in LR. I could not find much info available on the web on how to do this. May be I missed some thing One of my colleuges (Prakash KLV) explained this feature to me. So I thought, let me document this, so that it would be useful for others too. What is Staging ? Assume that you have a live community, with many people accessing it. Your...

The Liferay core engineering team and the Sun engineering team are collaborating to implement more monitoring features and capabilities into Liferay Portal . We would like to invite the community to provide feedback on the new features and let us know your thoughts.The following wiki articles describe the features: Liferay Monitoring Proposal Liferay MBean Object Names...

Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development A Java developer's guide to developing custom intranet systems, based on Liferay's platform. Sample Chapter; Code Download; Table of Contents; Build Java-based custom intranet systems on top of Liferay portal Learn to use Liferay tools to create your own applications as a Java developer, with hands-on examples Customize...

As of trunk revision 29951, there is now a way to get to the next and previous blog entry from the blogs entry view page. What is the communities thoughts on the previous and next button placement? I'm open to suggestions if it's not obvious enough. Perhaps move it to the top?  

  To Configure Liferay to store data of Document Library in Mysql Database Follow these Steps: 1) Shutdown the Liferay tomcat server. 2) Add these lines in Portal-ext.properties: #dl.hook.impl=com.liferay.documentlibrary.util.FileSystemHook dl.hook.impl=com.liferay.documentlibrary.util.JCRHook ## ## JCR ## ...

You can now configure your File Upload settings from control panel (5.2.3+), including allowed extensions and max file sizes!  

In the never ending effort to make Liferay easier to configure, mail settings can now be set in the control panel (5.2.3+). To do so, go to the control panel and click server administration, then click the Mail tab. Enter your data and go from there!