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Want to tune Liferay for better performance? There are several things that you can do. There is no magic wand that turbo charges your web app. There is this wiki article which has some properties you can set: http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Performance   But in the end, Liferay is a Java web application that runs in the JVM. Hence, you have to do some JVM tuning. Java...

Updated: 11/28/08 Screenshots for the latest Desktop theme updated for Liferay 5.2.x.       You can download the theme here (change .zip to .war)   It'd be nice to have a theme that's different than a traditional theme which also has cool animation effects to help keep things fun and interesting.  These ideas resulted in the new...

The premier Site-Specific Browser that brings Liferay to your Desktop, just kidding... http://bubbleshq.com/scripts/169/liferay  Another thing is how to make a notifier icon here for chat portlet, just like http://bubbleshq.com/scripts/167/facebook---just-chatting   把liferay放到桌面，方便使用。

Just wanted to let you know that the Quickstart Guide (upon which the below video is based) is now available! You can grab it at the Community landing page: http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community. It's a lot easier to follow the doc than the video. :-)

In the process of migrating the Document Publisher portlet from LRP 4.4.2 to 5.0.1 one of the problems I have found is that in LRP 5.0.1 the URLs for actions and renders in some cases, like URLs generated from Javascript, are escaped so they won't work anymore because the params could not be parsed correctly from the URL. To solve it you need to add to the "portletl.xml" file: ...

I am working right now in creating a new portlet por publishing documents (DocBook, XML Framemaker, Javadoc) so you can view them inside a Liferay portlet add comments the document section, access the document trough a tree index and other features. In order to implement it we have decided to start from the Document Library (DL) portlet and add new operations over the folder and files...

I just wanted to drop a couple of notes about the auto-save that I didn't mention before.... 1. I didn't do the bulk of the workThat honor goes to Jonathan Neal. Bchan did a lot and I made a couple of javascript changes and tweaks, but the work load credit goes to Jon for actually laying the foundation and getting it done. Go hit up his wall and tell him great job :) 2. There was...

Until now when the user was in any place of the portal  clicked the "Sign in" link he was shown a default portal login page. Of course it was already possible to create your own customized login page using the available portlets, but the user was not redirected there when clicking the "Sign in" button. After this improvement it is possible to let the portal know that a given...

Hi everyone. Yes, now you can develop portlets using groovy, and thanks to the last changes made by Brian is quite simple. Let's take a look at sample-groovy-portlet (check it out from the plugins svn). The file structure is like this: All the impotant files are under docroot/WEB-INF. There you can see usual files, including portlet.xml, which looks like this ...