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Recently I was asked how to do this! Well, it's rather simple (providing you understand the limitations of accessing portlets without permission, and portlets that are not allowed to be loaded dynamically; a.k.a. add-default-resource, and so on). Here goes! First I created a simple web content structure/type with the following definition: <root>    ...

If you have a Maven repository running under https with a self-signed certificate, then building a Maven project can report the following error: Error transferring file: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target There was an Oracle...

We all know that Liferay is a great social content and collaboration platform, which is why we at Liferay use it to implement our liferay.com website.  There are tons of interesting potential statistics to glean from this, to introspect into our community a bit more than the standard "50,000 registered users, 170,000 forum posts" kinds of stats that often find their way into...

If you are planning to come to the Westcoast Symposium  and have mourned about the announcement for Lightning talks being limited to the European Symposium, you can cheer up: We will have Lightning Talks at the WCS! The rules are simple: Submit your idea, talk or presentation to get a slot - You get the stage for max. 7 minutes, then the next presenter will take over. It's...

Hi all, it's time for another installment of your linky-linky Community Roundup!  It's been quite busy in the community and at Liferay.  Community activity is buzzing and we are gearing up for various Fall events and activities, starting off with our annual West Coast Symposium in California, where there will be several key announcements, including the unveiling of...

Who has not ever had to fight with complex SQL queries and PreparedStatements? And, what about the ? symbol when enabling the sql log? Last week I had to write a big migration process in order to complete a refactor and I have done some little hacking in order to use the p6spy driver when running a migration process from command line. This driver will resolve the values for the...

Liferay IDE 1.3 Now Available to Download A new stable release of Liferay IDE, version 1.3, is now available now on the stable update-site URL for existing Helios users here: http://releases.liferay.com/tools/ide/eclipse/helios/stable/ If you already have Liferay IDE installed in Eclipse Helios you can check for updates to pull down the new release.  If you are has...

Registration for the 4th European Symposium is open. In addition to the formats known from the last years, we're planning to add Lightning Talks to the event - If you plan to come to the symposium, you might want to consider presenting your project, plugin, neat idea or business case (no plain commercials please) in a Lightning Talk. The rules are simple: You'll get 7 minutes on stage...

A crucial point for any project is the use of cache strategies, especially when you try to implement a project the first time on a new infrastructure. Therefore I will give some hints  how you can easily get confident with our ootb caching strategies. So lets get started with my prerequisites. You download any tomcat bundle of liferay, I used 606 our latest community...

In the second post of the DDL series I would like to present two more porlets related to the Dynamic Data Lists: The first one is the Dynamic Data List Display. Its purpose is to exhibit a determined list, that is specified through its configuration window (Figure 1). There are two possible ways to display a given list: The default view (grid view) and the Spreadsheet view...

Back in April of this year I had the opportunity to speak at the CON-FESS conference in Vienna, Austria. One of the exhibitors there was zeroturnaround.com and I had the privilege of sitting next to founder Jevgeni Kabanov over dinner one night. Jevgeni described the benefits of JRebel, a JVM-plugin that makes it possible for Java developers to instantly see any code...

    Salve Brasil!   Agora é a vez de São Paulo sediar mais uma sequência de treinamentos oficiais da Liferay. Estaremos oferecendo todos os 3 treinamentos regulares durante uma semana e meia em Agosto. Além dos treinamentos regulares um novo treinamento também será oferecido chamado Building Themes. Segue as informações:     ...

You may have seen a previous mention of the Community BugSquad program in my last Community Roundup.  I'm excited to announce that the program has officially kicked off today!  The amazing volunteers of this program are contributing their time an expertise to review features in the upcoming Liferay 6.1 release, identify any new or regressed bugs (of course, Liferay is 100%...

One of the cool features that is coming in the next release of Liferay is the Dynamic Data Lists. Basically, dynamic lists are a collection of information that you want to share. Lists resemble database tables. It supports various field types (data types) that you can use to create the metadata schema. Each item stored in a particular list shares that same schema. With Dynamic...

Liferay's Responsibility to Community  Open source is a productive model for the development of software. We believe it is the best choice for the development of Liferay and, therefore, we are committed to providing programs that benefit our community. One benefit from open source development is that it allows a larger, more creative team to participate in the development...

Here is a quick step-by-step tutorial on how to get and run Liferay Portal. Easy as 1-2-3 :) Please share. http://www.liferay.com/quick-start

June 15th was our first-ever Liferay France Symposium held in Paris. We had a healthy turnout of over 100 community members, customers, and partners, who came together to learn about what's new in Liferay 6.1, hear customer case studies, and get connected with each other.    Juan Fernandez presents en français at the Liferay France Symposium 2011.   We...

LOS ANGELES – Liferay, primer suministrador mundial de plataformas web corporativas Open Source, ha anunciado su intención de ofrecer una compatibilidad completa con CMIS 1.0 en la próxima versión de Liferay Portal, con el fin de hacer aún más fácil su integración con repositorios externos de documentos. CMIS, el estándar de la industria para la gestión documental y la gestión de...

Con cada nueva versión, Liferay incluye muchas nuevas funcionalidades que son demandadas por los usuarios y la comunidad. Una de las mejoras más importantes de la versión 6.1 es la renovada gestión documental de la Biblioteca de Documentos. Las nuevas funcionalidades de gestión documental que se han incluido en esta versión son las siguientes: Integración con otros...

International Charter Space & Major Disasters International Charter Space & Major Disasters was initiated by European space agencies to provide space data acquisition and delivery to people impacted by disasters. The site features various news clips, facts, and photos regarding natural and man-made disasters. Visit their website to get the latest news...