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Our latest official release (2.5.0) made in April  introduced a lot improvements  in terms of documentation and bug fixes .  Since then we made public some few preview releases in June and July.   Now, we're happy to  announce the release of AlloyUI 3.0.0 stable!   ...

It's been around 2 months since Milestone 1 and we are now ready for the second public deliverable of the ongoing Liferay Development: Liferay 7 Milestone 2. As usual it can be downloaded in Sourceforge’s downloads page. If you prefer to get them from a Maven repo you can get it from Liferay’s maven repo. If you prefer to get it from GitHub you can use...

Over the last few weeks I've been trying to figure out a way to make navigation's dropdown menus display on click instead of hover. I added this code to the theme's main.js file. AUI.add( 'liferay-navigation-interaction-click', function(A) { A.mix( Liferay.NavigationInteraction.prototype, { _initChildMenuHandlers: function(navigation) { var instance =...

Then it happened again. I felt like a few times a felt before. That moment of symbiosis named "learn". I've got into the "flow" of Csikszentmihaly. (It requires a few minutes of practice just to ignore the characters and pronounce it correctly: cheek-sent-m-hy-ee. Really simple for our hungarian fellows, though). Last October 23th and 24th some coworkers, teachers and...

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. While this is great for a quick demo, you might want to do more in case of production setups. This is a part 1 of summary of a workshop held at Liferay's North America Symposium 2014 in Boston. Like in the...

Ayer anuncié durante una de mis charlas en el Liferay Spain Symposium 2014 que estábamos trabajando en la organización de un workshop que versará sobre el desarrollo de aplicaciones Liferay bajo la nueva arquitectura que verá la luz en nuestra próxima release. ¿Cómo funciona? Se celebrará en las oficinas de Liferay España y no existe una fecha concreta Fecha...

In the ever changing world of enterprise IT, our commitment to innovation, value, and service gives you the assurance that Liferay will meet or exceed your expectations today, and remain a critical part of your future strategic growth. Liferay is compatible with a wide range of infrastructure and enterprise applications, and can provide a seamless experience with your existing...

If you haven’t heard the news yet, Liferay has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals for the fifth year in a row, and we’ve placed second only to IBM—and well ahead of SAP, Microsoft, and Oracle. We’re really excited about our placement in this year’s report, and so are our partners and customers. At our annual user conference, many people shared that...

I'm happy to announce that Liferay has listened to your feedback and created a tutorial on Using Liferay-UI Tabs and Sections. Using Liferay-UI's tabs and section tags are a quick and easy solution to keeping your apps UI clean and well organized with minimal effort. The tutorial covers how you can get the most out of your tabs by using sections to include text, JSPs, or whatever you...

A community challenge for you Liferay's worldwide conferences generate quite a bit of data, and I am challenging the community: Take this data, and do something more interesting than a boring list of speakers and rooms. Get creative with the data (it's super-easy to digest, see the example code from my first post). Have some fun and show us how creative you can get! What's In...

It was great to participate in the Liferay North American Symposium this year. With hundreds of Liferay users (customers, partners, community members...) and dozens of presentations, it was not only a huge success but also a great opportunity to share user experiences and get your feedback. North American Symposium is over, but Liferay World Tour 2014 is not! There are still ...

Liferay  have different types of roles for user. So whenever we develop portlet application we may get need to fetch user roles.   The following article will give you more about Liferay Roles   http://www.liferaysavvy.com/2014/03/liferay-building-blocks.html   Generally we have following...

Currently, Liferay has excellent Eclipse support with the Liferay IDE and Liferay Developer Studio. However, as of this writing, Liferay has no official NetBeans plugins or IDE. So what are you to do if you want to develop on Liferay in NetBeans? Well you can run Liferay from the terminal of course, but what if you want to debug your code or Liferay's code or both? Remote debugging is...

In this blog I will show an example on how we can integrate external applications/services inside your liferay portal. In my example I created 2 portlets that you can use to integrate amazon search inside your portal page. Portlet 1: "Amazon Search" Portlet 2: "Amazon result". If you want to run this demo  please follow the below steps: 1 -  create your...

At Liferay's North American Symposium, I announced the immediate availability of a new website we've developed specifically for those who use Liferay and write code on its platform. We call this site the Liferay Developer Network. This site is the new home for Liferay's documentation and, by the time it gets out of beta, Liferay's community pages. After receiving good feedback...

I got this question a lot, specially after the javascript frameworks start to show up in the enterprise applications, what is better, portlets or widgets? why? -The most obvious different between portlet and widgets is that portlets are a server side component model (designed to execute on the server) and Widgets are client side component models (designed to run in the browser...

There is a big difference between Liferay Platform, and any other framework/Web Application. In general, Developers can develop anything, but the question is how long it will take them to do that and how much you will spend on development, maintenance, support...also the quality of the code is not always guaranteed. With liferay, we make that work for our clients. we have...

During last Liferay North America symposium in Boston, I had the opportunity to attend to Máté's interesting presentation (Best Practices for Using Staging in Liferay 6.2). I have always been fascinated by this complex feature in Liferay and I have spent hours "struggling" with it in the past years while helping companies implementing and using it. Remote publishing has been...

Greetings from the Liferay Symposium. The event was  great and we have had many good discussions with new and old Vaadin fans over here. And this is no wonder, like you learned earlier Vaadin-based applications took double-win the Liferay Marketplace. Announcing the new Vaadin Liferay refcard The updated Vaadin-Liferay refcard is out. It covers the fundamental stuff you...

Sometimes, Tomcat is not enough to run Liferay- reasons may include performance, client's wish etc. So here are the steps on how to configure Liferay instance on tc server 2.6. Same steps can be followed for liferay version below 6.2, at least for 6.1 I have verified. We have D:\pFiles\LR\tc-instance\ directory where vFabric tc server is installed. And we...