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Hi community!   For the last few weeks I have been working on a new framework for Liferay Portal. We have decided to call it " Application Display Templates Framework" ("ADT Framework" for family and friends :D), and it is basically the application of our templating system to the way we see information in our applications in Liferay Portal.  ...

One of the things we've been working on over the past few months is a complete reorganization of Using Liferay Portal, the documentation for our flagship product, Liferay Portal. For the 6.1 release cycle, we decided to rename the book (it used to be called the Liferay Portal Administrator's Guide) so that it would better reflect its content. For several releases, the "Admin Guide"...

The latest release of Liferay IDE version 1.6.0 has been made available today.  Head over to the downloads page if you want to grab an archived updatesite or an "all-in-one" bundle of both Eclipse Juno and Liferay IDE.  The new version brings compatibility with the most recent Eclipse Juno (4.2) release.  Please use the following updatesite for Eclipse...

On behalf of Liferay, I'm pleased to announce the latest release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.0-RC2 (Compatible with Liferay 6.1.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.0-RC2 (Compatible with Liferay 6.0.x) Project Links Release Notes Documentation Downloads Demos RC2 Status The release has been designated RC2 (instead of GA1)...

I'm particularly happy to announce that today we are launching a new initiative in the community around Liferay security.  From the new Community Security Team (CST) pages: "The Liferay Community Security Team is an all-volunteer group of community members who manage security issues related to Liferay CE. When security-related issues arise in the open source Liferay project,...

In order to proceed please download the following from your Customer Portal. Liferay Portal 6.1 EE WAR Liferay Portal 6.1 EE Dependencies Preparing Jboss for Liferay First, create a directory that will be the Liferay's home. We will call it $LIFERAY_HOME. Download Jboss and extract it into de $LIFERAY_HOME. Jboss directory will be referred as...

  SourceForge 7月最佳项目：Liferay SourceForge非常荣幸地宣布，2012年7月最佳项目为Liferay Portal。 SourceForge的记者Rich采访了Brian Chan，也就是大约十年前Liferay Portal的创始人。以下是采访记录：  Rich：恭喜Liferay Portal成为SourceForge 2012年7月最佳开源项目。 Brain：谢谢！我一直都很希望Liferay能成为最佳项目，现在愿望实现了，我感到非常高兴。 Rich：给我们介绍一下Liferay吧。比如，这一项目是从什么时候开始的？主要致力于解决什么样的问题？ ...

Hello everyone, Eclipse Juno (3.8/4.2) is scheduled to be released today (June 27th).  However, the current stable build of Liferay IDE (1.5.3) is not compatible with Eclipse Juno.  It will be a few more days before I can create a new stable build of Liferay IDE (1.6.0) since there are a few remaining issues that need to be resolved. However, in the meantime we are...

Sometimes you need to write a custom finder for a table that belongs to core. In my case it was JournalArticle.  My client wanted to avoid using the ext-plugin as much as possible so I had to try to figure out a way to do it within a portlet plugin. I tried to use dynamic queries as a solution but it turned out to be inadequate because I was unable to group by (I wanted to...

Durante el pasado mes de mayo, en concreto del 7 al 11, estuve disfrutando de las horas que Liferay ofrece a sus empleados para una colaboración en algún programa de voluntariado, y una vez de vuelta a la oficina he pensado que la mejor forma de expresar lo vivido durante esos días es la de compartirlo mediante una entrada de blog. Primero, comentar para quien no lo sepa que EVP...

This year, the Liferay Community will gather around the world to learn, share knowledge, and meet fellow Liferay technologists and experts, as part of the popular Liferay Symposium series.  The Liferay North American Symposium [Register] takes place October 8-9 in San Francisco, and it will be one you DO NOT want to miss. What's new this year? You mean besides...

"What is Liferay working on?" This question is probably the most popular high-level question asked by the our community.  Whether you are an enthusiast, open source Liferay developer, partner, or potential or long-time customer, you want to know what's coming up and what's being worked on.  On my first day on the job, in my first blog post as your community manager,...

In this article I'll try to list workflow and service context content for some common asset types. You can use this information later when you build your notification templates or refer to it. When accessing variables I marked with "!" (like taskComments or transitionName) make sure they are present since its presence depends on workflow activity. You will notice that I separated...

  All Liferay IDE users that also use Eclipse Indigo SR2 (3.7.2) are encouraged to apply the latest update to Liferay IDE.   Steps for existing Liferay IDE users.. Open Eclipse Make sure that the Liferay IDE updatesite is enabled: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/indigo/stable/ Help > Check for...

Announcement On behalf of Liferay, I'm pleased to announce the latest release of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 3.1.0-RC1 (Compatible with Liferay 6.1.x) Liferay Faces 3.0.0-RC1 (Compatible with Liferay 6.0.x) Project Links Release Notes Documentation Downloads Demos Release Highlights This release contains quite a few...

The results are in! Liferay launched its first Twitter contest earlier this month with this tweet. Our guest judge for the two-week long contest was journalist Josette Rigsby from CMS Wire.  Josette has carefully looked over each entry, and has provided her expert judgement as follows: Liferay has managed to combine two of my life long loves - super heroes and code....

  My apologies for the long break in publishing the episodes - I got distracted with a lot of work and once there is an interruption of a habit, you probably know how hard it is to get back into it. I hope to be on track again now and will publish the archive of already recorded episodes soon - and produce more of them. This is another episode recorded at the previous Liferay...

I recently performed a Google Search for "phaselistener not thread safe" and realized that this issue is not widely published, so I'd like to take a moment to discuss it here. Sooner or later, most JSF developers end up developing a PhaseListener implementation like BridgeDebugPhaseListener.java found in Liferay Faces Bridge. One thing to remember though, is that...

  If you have followed the IdP setup you will find the setup steps very similar. First we need to setup a keystore, we gonna use the java keytool to create a keystore we can easily use from command line. It is cruzial to create the key with the name of the SP-entity we want to use in the portal-ext.properties. In this case we will use...

As a result of my recent Demo at our hungarian symposium in Budapest I want to show today how I used the SAML Portlet to setup a liferay portal instance as an Identity Provider talking SAML2. My next blog will show the Service Provider part with the same portlet but different configuration and a second liferay bundle working on different ports locally. In case you are...