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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...