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Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions about them because it's easy to abuse them for purposes for which they're not well suited - despite making the impression they might. CC BY-ND 2.0 by S. Benno Today it's all about...

The basic bundle that liferay provides with different Application servers are pretty straight forward to install and setup. So that using them one can easily get started with a working liferay portal. Actually the default settings that liferay provides is ideally for developers. Now the question is, whether it’s also safe to start using the same thing for production as well? Well the...

I am pleased to announce the release of:  Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA3!  [Download Now] What's New Overriding LPKG Files: A while back I wrote a blog entry on patching OSGi modules. The original process wasn't very elegant because it involved altering the out of the box .lpkg files. GA3 now includes a way to override the out of the box modules without altering the...

Hi everyone!   A week ago we started the new serie of blog entries about our new themes for Liferay 7. Today, we gladly present you our second theme: Westeros Bank:     "A bank case" The Westeros Bank theme has been developed to showcase a realistic banking project. Sites like this are usually very complex. With this in...

No te ha pasado nunca que usas algo habitualmente que te descuadra, que tiene algo que no entiendes del todo. Pues esa ha sido mi experiencia con el servicio de Counter de Liferay. Por ello me he sumergido en el código para entender el funcionamiento completo y así poder dormir tranquilo de nuevo  ¿Para qué sirve? El servicio Counter nos permite obtener el ID de forma...

I wanted to share some testing that I have been doing in terms of patching OSGi modules and adding the patched modules to your own Liferay installations.  One of the many benefits to modularity is that it allows for these kinds of changes to be made without having to recompile the whole platform from scratch. Update: This procedure has been updated to make use of a new...

The Glorious Simplicity of Structure Inheritance This field (highlighted yellow) on a structure editing screen is what I am talking about. When I first saw the words Parent Structure there, the following thoughts came to mind, in increasing order of coolness All fields in the parent structure are inherited by the child structure The idea of polymorphic...

It’s never too early to plan your next meal–or your next, next, next meal for that matter. While it may seem like Liferay Symposium North America is a while away, it’ll be here before you know it. And when it does, you want to make sure you’re prepared to do one of the most important things a person can do while in Chicago. Eat. What follows is a list of Chicago’s must-eats. You...

Hi everyone!   For a long time themes have been one of the most required features in Liferay, and as we announced during last year, Liferay 7 will be a game changer. This will be the first out of four different blog entries in which we plan to present our vision for the theming layer moving forward.     "Real cases" To begin with, we...

Last month, I attended BizBash LA for the second time (you can see my 2015 recap here). I had a great time hearing from industry leaders and meeting fellow event professionals. It’s one of the few times I get to enjoy events from the attendees’ perspective, and it was reaffirming to realize that as planners, we all encounter unpredictable issues at our events, no matter how much...

Liferay Arquillian test cases using maven and spring Arquillian integrates seamlessly with familiar testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, TestNG), allowing tests to be launched using existing IDE, Ant and Maven test plugins. ...

Every 30 seconds, someone becomes a victim of human trafficking. It’s a sad reality, and here are some common myths and misconceptions about this crime: “Human trafficking victims always come from situations of poverty or from small rural villages.”  Reality: Although poverty can be a factor in human trafficking because it is often an indicator of vulnerability, poverty alone...

For my very first EVP trip, my family and I had to opportunity to shadow the day-to-day operations of Solidarity Brasil and ABBA. These organizations share many of the same core values as Liferay to care for children in their city, São Paulo, Brazil. What I did varied from manual labor for a house that will be used as an aftercare center for underage girls victimized by...

Today I’m writing to announce that we are discontinuing support for Liferay Connected Services and Audience Targeting for Liferay Portal 7 Community. The main factor behind the decision was the lack of community adoption for both offerings.    Regarding Audience Targeting, there was low adoption by community members compared with most other...

So I'm a long-time supporter of ServiceBuilder.  I saw its purpose way back on Liferay 4 and 5 and have championed it in the forums and here in my blog. With the release of Liferay 7, ServiceBuilder has undergone a few changes mostly related to the OSGi modularization.  ServiceBuilder will now create two modules, one API module (comparable to the old service jar w/ the...

This blog is part of a series of entries on Mobile First with Liferay Screens. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]     Mobile First with Liferay Screens   Mobile has changed the world and will go on doing so for the foreseeable future. A stream of new mobile devices and operating systems is putting pressure on organizations to meet the high expectations...

So you want to search for your custom JPA entities in Liferay? Quite some documentation is already available but it is somewhat scattered over several blogposts and articles. With this blogpost I would like to give you a summary of everything you need to do, or more precisely everything we did, to make custom JPA entities searchable in the standard Liferay Search...

Having completed a few digital transformation projects in federal, state and local government, we would like to share a few insights. Digital transformation in government is considered to be a major undertaking. We have seen serious moves in this area in the UK and it is brewing here in Australia with the establishment of the Digital Transformation Office. Existing technology...

It's going to happen.  At some point in your LR7 development, you're going to build a module which has runtime dependencies.  How do you satisfy those dependencies though? In this brief blog entry I'll cover some of the options available... So let's say you have a module which depends upon iText (and it's dependencies).  It doesn't really matter what your module...

UPDATE: September 2, 2016 - Visit www.liferayfaces.org for a convenient web page that helps you determine your archetype:generate command and/or required dependencies. The Liferay Faces team is working on production support for JSF portlets in Liferay Portal 7.0 and Liferay DXP. As part of this effort, we have developed some archetypes for use with Maven 3. For a plain ...