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Working for Liferay in my position means travelling a lot. This is great in that I see many interesting places in the world. However, to make it more interesting, I'd like to meet many interesting people in the world as well. This month will bring me to Stockholm, and while the exact date and place for a meet-up might still change, I'd like to announce a community...

Recently I came across a forum post asking about deploying Liferay on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk.  Elastic Beanstalk (EB) is basically a managed Amazon EC2 instance running Linux and a pre-installed Tomcat.  You can install (web) apps into that container, and with clever configuration (and your credit card information) it will automatically scale horizontally and...

The short answer to the title question is YES. However a longer version is : After LPS-16789 you don't really need to worry about it. The possibility for seeing an actual conflict is negligible for most people in most cases. If your system is pursuing 100% safety in any case, stop reading this blog, go to LPS-16744, that is what you need. However, if you are willing to take a...

TVBEurope Magazine Online Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 TVBEurope is a hub that offers news involving the broadcasting industry in Europe. Their site features updates on business models, important stakeholders, and up-and-coming products. Tune in their site to catch the latest news in the broadcasting world.  

Recently I did a Liferay LIVE presentation on driving community participation with Liferay.  I'll post links to the video and slides once they are available.  The main topic was how to encourage community participation on sites that are based on Liferay.  There are many features in Liferay that make it easy to create and maintain good community sites.  One of the...

Miss me yet?   It's been a busy several weeks here at Liferay so I've been a little absent (not disconnected, just heads down).  We had a very successful showing at the Gartner Portals, Content, and Collaboration Summit in late March.  And we're gearing up for Liferay's annual East Coast Symposium near Washington, D.C. next month (well, really in about 3 weeks!).  I...

I just got back from our first Liferay Roadshow in Amsterdam yesterday and gave a talk about how identity and interactions are changing due to paradigm shifts in technology and corporate culture. I'll post about that some other time, but I did talk to someone considering Liferay for a business application and they asked the inevitable "what's the future of Java?" question.  I...

Although this tale is not about folder structure (most developers have it similar), we will start with one. This is how all my Liferay portal project folders look like: I have several project folders organized similar to this one: for 5.2.x branch, for 6.0.x branch etc. Image shows folder that is dedicated for the trunk. (I obviously love to assign icons to folders for better...

  Were you able to visit us at the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit in Los Angeles this last week?  We presented to numerous customers and interested business leaders in our booth.  I am sorry if you stopped by and we were unable to speak to you personally, we were inundated with visitors and we tried to get to everyone.  Several times I...

We have been working for a while in the task of integrating Liferay translations and Pootle. The overall goal is to make it easier for translators and contributors to improve the Liferay project by providing suitable translations for the static strings which make up the texts displayed by the portal. Up to now, the classic procedure for such a contribution is to open the...

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. A web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Liferay...

Scion Owners Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 6.0 The Scion Owners website was designed to make it easier and faster for people to get plugged into the Scion car user community. Scion drivers or simple aficionados can visit the site to participate in the message boards, watch video tutorials, or learn about new community events. Check out this snazzy...

Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten Region: Germany Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten is a state university in the southwestern part of Germany (Württemberg). The school offers various programs and degrees including specializations in the fields of technology, economy, and social welfare. To learn more about the campus and its...

This blog will talk about how to create basic Liferay portlet with maven and integrate drools flow as a rule engine with Liferay portlet.Drools 5 introduce the Business Logic integration Platform which provides a unified and integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing.To Create Liferay-Drools project please follow the below steps: To install maven plugins for...

One of the questions that comes up more often when I talk to community members, partners and customers is, should I use communities or organizations in my project? If you haven't asked yourself this question before, let me add some background. Liferay portal is known to have great multi-tenancy support. That means that you can have many independent sites within a single installation...

The Liferay in Action MEAP was updated today and now includes all the chapters that will be a part of the book. I still have some editing to do, but we're getting pretty close now. From the Manning announcement:    What's new: Chapter 1, "Liferay is a different portal," has been revised. Chapter 2, "Appray: Development at...

Exercito Brasileiro Region: Brazil Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE Exercito Brasileiro is a government website devoted to news, recruiting, and events revolving the national army of Brazil. Their site features a breadth of content, including the latest articles on current events to a history of the army that features a working constitution of its values...

"Rather than boring your customers to death, there is a clear opportunity to put the dull corporate website to rest. Then resurrect it as a platform for true community engagement that functions as a hub for interaction with all customers and stakeholders." Sounds good in theory, but how does it work in practice? But first, let's consider how we got here in the first place. It's...

User Interfaces may get affected when using friendly URL routing and mapping. URL routing or mapping could shorten URL, as you can see in browsers. A route is a pattern for a URL. It includes named fragments automatically parsed from the URL into the parameter map. Every URL parsed by a route could also be generated from the resulting parameter map. Abstracted from the...

Hi Gang, welcome back to another edition of Community Roundup.  We've had another exciting several weeks of activity in the community, culminating with the release of Liferay Portal 6 CE GA4 (also known as 6.0.6) [Download] [Release Notes].  This serves as a nice interim release between 6.0 and 6.1, but more importantly, the changes that went into GA4 were dominated by...