Blogs

UPDATE: 2019/01/11: Please refer to Kyle Stiemann's blog titled How can I share session data across portlets in Liferay? which discusses the various benefits and drawbacks of data sharing approaches that are now available. If you want to share data between portlets, a common way to do that is by storing data in the user's session. Liferay Portal has some nice features for...

The open-source software movement (also known as the free software movement) received a boost Wednesday from the federal appeals court in Washington, according to an article from the New York Times. The court ruled that “just because a software programmer gave his work away did not mean it could not be protected.” ...

We've made some enhancements to the search infrastructure of the portal recently. We abstracted out Lucene as a search engine, now people can build plugins that integrate with others search engines frameworks. For example, it's possible to replace Lucene with Solr, FAST and Google Search Appliance as long as a plugin is developed to interface with them. Currently the only plugin...

I've been being asked this a lot recently, so I'm going to blog it. Also a wiki on it.   5.1 To see a listing of available web services (v 5.1), you can go to the following URL with Liferay running locally: http://localhost:8080/tunnel-web/axis It will also give you access to the WSDL files. It looks like this: And now... Some Services ...

Today is my last day working at Liferay as a full time employee. On 1st September I will start working at CENATIC, National Reference Centre for the Application of Open Source Information and Communication Technologies. It has been a pleasure to work with all of you at Liferay. Being involved in free software projects for more than ten years, I have found that Liferay is a very...

Brian just wrote a great blog about the Meetup and I couldn't resist adding my usual philosophical shpiel. The Meetup this year was interesting because of how much it was a reflection of the social collaborative dynamic of companies and communities like Liferay. Liferay is a geographically distributed, heterogenous (employees, customers and community enthusiasts) group of people...

Thanks to everyone who came to participate in last Friday's meetup in sunny Los Angeles! It was loads of fun. Check out www.flickr.com/photos/tags/liferaymeetup2008 for more pics. Here are the guys from Italy who built pjoon, a popular Italian social network based on Liferay. Bryan and I giving our talk. Paul Bakaus giving a talk. He's the jQuery UI lead...

OpenSSO is an open source  project for single sign on from Sun Microsystems.  This document describes how to integrate Liferay 5.1 with OpenSSO on Glassfish V3. 1.  Download OpenSSO from https://opensso.dev.java.net  . You can  use stable Build 4.2.  Download Glassfish V3 from https://glassfish.dev.java.net 3.  Iam assuming  OpenSSO and...

For the benefit of everyone who may not be able to attend the Liferay Meetup today, I'll be trying to update this blog post. Any noteable information, oustanding events, questions, I'll try and update this blog throughout the day. Hope you enjoy it! If If anyone has any questions go ahead and leave them in the comments and I'll try and answer them. 9:10am - Keynote by Brian Chan and...

The idea is to let a person who posted a messsage expecting answer to vote on comments as the solutions. Once those information built-up, we could use them for construct a FAQ. The current implementation is using the MBMessageFlag table for the marker, because it was only used for marking the read status of a given message for users. This will not create needed step for upgrade. ...