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We've finally released both CE and EE versions of Liferay 6.1 GA3 and along with those releases we've also released the corresponding versions of Liferay Maven Support and Portal artifacts. The version numbers are 6.1.2 for CE GA3 and 6.1.30 for EE GA3. With this release there is one significant improvement in the Liferay Maven Plugin and that is they are no longer directly dependent...

 I took some time to speak to Jorge Ferrer, Liferay's VP of Engineering about all things Engineering and Development in Liferay. This time I'm not starting with butchering names, but positions. Jorge is one of the very early contributors to Liferay, started as community member and got hired, started the spanish office. After an episode "on the dark side", being the GM for Spain,...

What's the time? It's time to get ill, with another Community Roundup! The Liferay Community has done some amazing things these last few months since the last roundup, and so here we go with another collection of things our community has been up to. On with the links! Mobile apps and responsive design are all the rage these days, but how does that translate to Liferay? Visit...

Overview Liferay Portal 6.0 and 6.1 provide a data verification mechanism which can be used to resolve various data integrity issues, including the following data sets: Asset Blogs Bookmarks Calendar Document Library Group Journal Layout Message Boards Organization Permission Resource Permissions Role Social...

Recently I began to blog about some of our partners activites out in the "real" world including several marketplace applications that they are currently developing.  Today I would like to point out Rivet Logice's HR Portal marketplace application.  Rivet Logic's Liferay experts used their experience and lessons learned to implement a fully functional generic HR Portal...

When I lead the eBusiness technology efforts at my former employer, Oracle and IBM assigned "Account Managers" to our business unit.  I would hear from these people (there were multiple over the course of a year because no one really stayed in that position for very long) about twice a year.  They would visit our team and primarily try to sell us on additional product...

We have some awesome certified partners and I want to start pointing out some of the great stuff they are doing including marketplace applications that they are starting to upload for community usage.  The first application is the My Shortcuts portlet . This portlet is developed by Youngsoft, Inc. Liferay Platinum Service Partner in America. My Shortcuts portlet is a very...

Yay!   For those of you egg heads who have been wondering where the support for Context and Dependency Injection is, well this is your day.  Liferay now has support for your favorite annotations like: @Named and @Inject.   Cruise over to the demos page and checkout the new jsf2-cdi-portlet: ...

Following with these blog posts series about good practices in Continuous Integration, I want to talk about the benefits of running tests. Practice 2: Always run the tests When a developer commits a new functionality, it's expected that in that commit, the software works as what we believe it should work. And, if a software works as expected in a single commit, why not...

On June 1, 2013 Liferay released the 3rd General Availability (GA) release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.2-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.1.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.2-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 6.0.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.2-legacy-ga3 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay 5.2.x) Liferay Faces 2.1.2-ga3 (JSF 1.2 + Liferay 6.1.x) Project Links Release Notes...

Starting this week I am going to be posting some information from some of our excelletn partners and their blog posts which are extremely helpful when it comes to customer use cases and more in depth overviews of some of the different features available in the latest versions of Liferay products. This week I would like to bring focus to a blog written by our 2012 North American...

When I first met the AlloyUI project was a little bit hard to understand all the functionalities it provides without looking to the source code. Then we made a new website that shows how can you use each component with some code snippets. That was great, but how can you check which are the configuration options available for each component? For instance, you know that there...

An opportunity for a german blogpost - who'd have thought that. If you don't speak german but are in the area of Hamburg on 13. June 2013: try this ;) Die Liferay User Group Hamburg trifft sich am 13. Juni um 18:30 im Zirkusweg in Hamburg. Nähere Informationen (und gegebenenfalls Aktualisierungen) auf der Homepage der Usergroup. Zur Zeit auf der Agenda: Ein Vortrag...

Issue In Liferay 6.1, the staging site is extremely slow if versioning is enabled. It can take 30 seconds to 10 minutes to refresh a page on the staging site (depends on how many contents/portlets on your page). Cause If you enable hibernate show SQL by setting the log level to DEBUG for "org.hibernate.SQL" category in "Server Administration" or use JAVA profiler, you will...

Hi all! I'm writing this blog entry as the first post of a continuous integration blog serie, sharing our knowledge and usage of this technique. In these blog posts, I will to talk about some good practices I would recommend you to follow, based on my experience reading the book "Continuous Delivery", by Jez Humble and David Farley, concretely chapter number 3. And of...

This seems to be a basic function. One of my portlet has a list of web content links and when a link is clicked, the web content will be displayed in another Web Content Display portlet. I am a Java developer but The basic idea is to send the article ID from one portlet to another, make a JSONWS call to retrieve the article, and replace the content on the target portlet. ...

Most enterprises use Dropbox grudgingly.  It works well, but there is always a lingering doubt about having proprietary outside of your organization's control.  Additionally, it is virtually impossible to manage roles to the degree that enterprises need within Dropbox's sharing mechanism.  Essentially, Dropbox is a great tool, but it's not a portal. Liferay Sync has...

We can integrate Alfresco Repository with Liferay Documents and Media Portlet by using CMIS feature. Liferay 6.1 provides with the very simple configuration management for cmis settings. Let’s follow few steps for configuration of CMIS in Document and Media portlet.   NOTE: If you are not using any SSO for both servers, Make sure you create a same user...

We will be seeing here the proper way of intregrating Alfresco 4.x with Liferay 6.1 version. So, here I have given details process, How you can achive the integration. Let’s do some few steps for integrating Alfresco 4.x with Liferay 6.1. As we can have assumption that you might have installed the Alfresco and Liferay Tomcat bundles into separate directories. Let’s say...

 At this year's Jax I met Ville Ingmann, "Your Business Buddy" at Vaadin (the business card says "VP of German Operations"). With some inadvertent background noise (sorry) we talk about the history of Vaadin in Liferay, the meaning of the name, which also explains the logo, and the integration of Vaadin in Liferay (Vaadin is technology partner of Liferay, the library comes...