Blogs

As you know, Liferay 6 integrates workflow system like jBPM or Kaleo on any assets finally. By this feature, users are able to manage the content creation process with a workflow. Out-of-the-box, liferay 6 provides the ability to enable workflow for core assets: Blogs Entry Comments Document Library Document Message Boards Message Web Content Wiki Page ...

This is the second part of a series of blogs and wiki articles on using gadgets in Liferay. In the blog we'll look at a gadget in action and in the associated wiki post we'll breakdown the gadget, as well as have downloadable source code for you to try out In the first post in the series, we talked about how to deploy a gadget. This time we'll build a gadget that will call a...

Draft version 1With synergy of JFreechart and Liferay, I create a jfreechart-portlet in Liferay for enterprise usage. It combines features JFreeChart's professional presentation and Liferay portal's professional framework. A chart is worth a thousand words, Behind a chart, you will feel collaborations with DDDD... Decision makers Designers Developers Data...

Liferay 6.0 now comes with an additional Single Sign-On option - Facebook SSO using OAuth 2.0.  Setup is quite easy.  Let me walk you through the steps below. 1. In order for Facebook SSO to work, you first have to have a Facebook application account.  If you don't already have one, you can get more information here: developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/web 2. Once...

GA 3 is a bug fix release for GA 2. Changes are available on our Issue Tracker. Downloads are available on SF.net.

Liferay 6 EE is almost done -  it's great - and we're having a party.  Over the last year and a half, most of Liferay spent heads down digging through reports, reviews, strategies, ideas, code, bugs, and processes.  All with one aim, to build the culmination of Portal, Web Content Management and Social Collaboration into one innovative, robust, scalable and easy...

This is the first part of a series of blogs and wiki articles on using gadgets in Liferay. In this first part we'll discuss gadgets use and how to deploy a gadget. So, will gadgets replace portlets? Well, in some cases, they will be a quicker way to get information on your web site if you already have a web service available to pull the data from. There are some caveats thought, as a...

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Region: Canada Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.1 Since its first $2,000 auction in 1958, Ritchie Bros. has conducted thousands of unreserved public auctions worldwide. Its largest auction to date – a US$190 million, five-day auction in 2008 – attracted more than 6,000 bidders from 71 countries. Today Ritchie Bros. is the world's...

LOT Polish Airlines Region: Poland Version: Liferay Portal EE 5.2 Since 1928, LOT Polish Airlines has met the transportation needs of individual and corporate customers flying to and from Poland with both excellent service and great value.  

Today was my first day playing with the Liferay IDE. It is really good! It basically streamlines all the little processes that create friction for Liferay developers and lets you handle everything from Eclipse. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit. Windows x64 was giving me grief with Eclipse, and Java 1.6.21 was also giving me grief with Helios. So here are my recommendations: ...

During a recent class I taught on ICEfaces, one of my students asked me why the calendar was often one day off from what got posted back to the model managed-bean setter. For example: // Facelets XHTML Markup:<ice:selectInputDate value="#{modelManagedBean.dateOfBirth}">    <f:convertDateTime pattern="MM/dd/yyyy" /></ice:selectInputDate>//...

Después de un año de pausa este año vuelve de nuevo la Open Source World Conference en Málaga. Después del gran éxito del Symposium en Madrid, nos hemos quedado con ganas de más y hemos pensado que sería una gran idea repetir varias de las charlas técnicas que preparamos para el symposium junto con algunas nuevas que prepararemos para la ocasión. En esta ocasión los organizadores...

Barcelona Bus Turistic Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Established in 1987, Barcelona Bus Turístic is the official sightseeing tour of the city. Open to all, this sightseeing service is designed so that you discover the city's exceptional sites and experience Barcelona the way you want to.  

DAN: Divers Alert Network Region: Europe Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 DAN helps divers in need, 24/7, anywhere in the world, with medical emergency assistance, and promotes diving safety through Research, Education, Products and Service  

Along with all the functional and architectural improvements of Liferay 6, we've also tried to improve our release process based on the feedback that we've received from the community and customers during the last releases. Let's start with the basics, here are some simple rules to interpret the meaning of a version: Versions consist of a three digit number. For example,...

A new functionallity in Liferay 6 are the so called "Sanitizers".  What are sanitizers? Sanitizers are a filtering element that "sanitize" web content (usually HTML or javascript code) so that it doesn't contain unappropiate content like javascript malicious code or swearwords, for example.   The portal.properties file has been updated with...

We've been saying for a long time that you could write plugins in a variety of languages, but we never really had any examples to prove that. Of course some languages will be far simpler to achieve this that others. It'll be far simpler to do this using languages that have native java bindings. Groovy is writen natively in java and even extends the JDK with awesome new features, so...

GA 2 is a quick bug fix release for GA 1 that was released last week. It includes many bug fixes. Thanks to everyone who helped out. New features for Liferay 6 are listed on our Wiki. Release notes are available on our Issue Tracker. Downloads are available on SF.net.

 One of the biggest feature requests from Liferay 5.2 was the ability to upgrade the included version of jQuery. Many users would like to use third-party plugins, and most of those require the latest jQuery library (1.4.x as of this writing). So for 6.0, we solved this a couple of different ways. First, we no longer include jQuery by default. We have rebuilt our UI to run...

  Hi there!   We are glad to announce for all those of you Maven adicted like me , that now Liferay has its artifacts public in a Maven 2 repository! The community request was listened and answered.   The repository contains artifacts of version 6.0.2 and 6.0.3. The deployed artifacts are: Core projects: portal-client portal-impl portal-service ...