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Overview This brief article outlines a high level solution for using the Liferay SAML 2.0 EE Provider plugin as the SAML SP in a clustered node environment. The solution extends from using Liferay SAML 2.0 EE Provider plugin as the SAML SP in a single node environment and assumes the reader is already familiar with the SAML protocol and configuring the Liferay SAML 2.0 EE...

JavaServer™ Faces (JSF) is one of the standards developed under the Java Community Process (JCP) and was first introduced with Java EE 1.4. The first version of JSF had its share of proponents, but also had its share of criticism. Over the years it has been continuously improved by JCP Expert Groups (EGs) and extended by 3rd-party libraries like PrimeFaces, ICEfaces, RichFaces,...

The easily customizable, SASS based, Valo theme is one of the largest renewals to Vaadin lately. The vaadin-archetype-liferay-portlet still uses the oldish “liferay” theme, adapted for older versions of Liferay, but you can typically get much more appealing results with your Vaadin based portlets with the new Valo theme. The customizability of Valo is based on certain parameters...

Context is king In 1996, when the web was in its infancy, Bill Gates famously predicted that content would be king on the internet. Twenty years later it has become increasingly important to not just publish your content on the web, but also to understand and respond to the context and purpose with which your visitors are visiting your website. For example, an engineer...

Liferay offers extensive set of features regarding user accounts and signing in to your portal out of the box. Many of the features are made configurable through portal properties, enabling the developer to concentrate more on the core features clients want from their portals.   These options include, among others, the “remember me” feature, login by...

On August 3, 2015 the JCP Executive Committee approved the ballot for starting JSR 378: Portlet 3.0 Bridge for JavaServer™ Faces 2.2. This is the first time that Liferay will be leading a JSR and as the Spec Lead I will be heading up the stewardship role. Liferay will also be represented by Vernon Singleton, Juan Gonzalez, and Kyle Stiemann as members of the Expert Group. ...

My Documents View New Liferay Sync UI Today Liferay released Liferay Sync 3, the latest version of its popular document sharing add-on for Liferay. Download it from the Downloads page, read the official documentation, and see below for more details on this release! Downloads You can get Liferay Sync (server and Desktop...

How Liferay and Valamis solve regulatory compliance Companies today are facing an increasing number of regulations and need for transparency in their operations. Consequently, organizations are adopting a growing number of tools considering compliance controls resulting in growing complexity. This is to ensure that all the governance requirements can be met without wasting...

Dear community, As you already know, Liferay Connected Services is an online tool that offers services to help our customers succeed on their Liferay projects. One of its several useful services which has been very welcomed by our LCS users is the presentation of pages and portlets metrics. This enables you to analyze your portal’s usage and can help you find performance...

Recently LCS team had really hard time with writing integration tests for service builder generated classes. Arquillian test patterns written for core portal plugin simply didn't work for our case and mocking service layer was pointles. As time passed by and code base grow we simply got angry and decided to stop with all development untill we are not able to run test as any other...

Today I was trying to enable SSL with NGINX as Load Balancer for a demo Liferay cluster, I thought to share my experiences on how I did that with this small post. I am skipping the certificate generation where I followed standard openssl ways for a self signed certificates. This simple setup I had NGINX server handles all SSL traffic from the outside world , post SSL termination...

Looking at Liferay 7 Milestone 7 download stats, it seams many have tried it already. Yet considering the size of the community, the numbers are not that impressive. I'm pretty sure it's not because it's too hard or too time consuming to do it. However if that was your excuse, you may need to think of another one because trying out Liferay just got easier. How much easier? As easy as...

When working with the web content management part of Liferay you quickly start using the Asset Publisher because of its versatility. This portlet enables you to gather and present different kinds of content in a multitude of ways. It can gather content in a dynamic way, by means of a search in a certain scope, on one or more asset type, filtering on tags/categories, or manually, where...

Everyone wants their systems to be highly available, and for good reason. The age-old adage “time is money” has never been more true than in today’s interconnected world. Companies clamor to make sure their systems are always online, working around the clock to get as close as possible to the high availability nirvana of 99.9999 percent. Load balanced and clustered setups offer...

JQuery Data table is way of present our data at client side and we can show case data and we can perform operations like sorting, update, page nation and many other operations we can perform on data table.   JQuery Data table is very popular jQuery plugin which built it on top of JQuery library. JQuery Data table have very good community and plenty of...

It looks like I'll stay on this™ side of the atlantic ocean this year, so I'm concentrating on introducing the big events that I'm attending next and link to the others, in the hope that I'm not missing any. If you are in other parts of the world: All of our events are worth going to and you'll get your personal share of ideas, contacts and great conversations. I got my first...

If you thought August was being a bit boring in terms of news, here we come to spice it up with yet another new milestone release on our road to Liferay 7. And it’s not just any release. This will be the last milestone release of the series. Yup, you’ve heard right; the next release will be our first alpha release already. So this is a great moment to take a look at the ongoing work...

If you are struggling to choose the right web platform for your project, you’re not alone. There are many options to choose from, each claiming to be better than the rest. How do you choose for your specific project? The answer largely depends on the context of what you are trying to achieve. But whether you intend to build an employee intranet, e-commerce site, or anything in...

The benefit of eLearning is that it is independent of time and space. This makes it also flexible and cost-effective. On the other hand, it challenges the learner to focus on studying since there is no teacher around. Therefore, the learning experience should be motivating and engaging. As a result, the ones designing and creating eLearning material and platforms might find it...

My wife has always given me a great amount of grief when it comes to doing even small improvement projects around the house. Almost always, I see the opportunity to get something else done "while we're at it." "Going to be doing some drywall? This is the perfect time to get some extra insulation in that wall." "While we're at it, I don't like the wiring back in here. We need to redo...