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This blog will talk about how to create basic Liferay portlet with maven and integrate drools flow as a rule engine with Liferay portlet.Drools 5 introduce the Business Logic integration Platform which provides a unified and integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing.To Create Liferay-Drools project please follow the below steps: To install maven plugins for...

One of the questions that comes up more often when I talk to community members, partners and customers is, should I use communities or organizations in my project? If you haven't asked yourself this question before, let me add some background. Liferay portal is known to have great multi-tenancy support. That means that you can have many independent sites within a single installation...

The Liferay in Action MEAP was updated today and now includes all the chapters that will be a part of the book. I still have some editing to do, but we're getting pretty close now. From the Manning announcement:    What's new: Chapter 1, "Liferay is a different portal," has been revised. Chapter 2, "Appray: Development at...

Exercito Brasileiro Region: Brazil Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE Exercito Brasileiro is a government website devoted to news, recruiting, and events revolving the national army of Brazil. Their site features a breadth of content, including the latest articles on current events to a history of the army that features a working constitution of its values...

"Rather than boring your customers to death, there is a clear opportunity to put the dull corporate website to rest. Then resurrect it as a platform for true community engagement that functions as a hub for interaction with all customers and stakeholders." Sounds good in theory, but how does it work in practice? But first, let's consider how we got here in the first place. It's...

Hi Gang, welcome back to another edition of Community Roundup.  We've had another exciting several weeks of activity in the community, culminating with the release of Liferay Portal 6 CE GA4 (also known as 6.0.6) [Download] [Release Notes].  This serves as a nice interim release between 6.0 and 6.1, but more importantly, the changes that went into GA4 were dominated by...

 Hey guys, I'm not very active lately due to the great growth that we are experiencing in Spain and the increasing work associated to the upcoming new version, Liferay 6.1. The reason for this blog post is to announce some great news: The second edition of the Developer's Guide is now available at www.liferay.com/documentation The document is available online for browsing...

Recently Liferay completely an upgrade of the software that powers issues.liferay.com.  We upgrade to JIRA 4.2.4, which is around 5 years newer than the one before!  As you can imagine, there have been a lot of improvements and new features, so I wanted to illustrate a few that I use and that you may find useful.  A full list of features is listed on the Atlassian site...

Hello everyone, *See Update * I just noticed that Eclipse has released Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2).  Also last week we released a bug fix release for Liferay IDE 1.2.1.  Unfortunately I have just verified that the latest Eclipse release (3.6.2 and WTP 3.2.3) is not compatible with Liferay IDE 1.2.1 (as well as previous versions).  If you upgrade to Helios SR2...

Last year, there was a huge buzz about this new protocol call CMIS that just was released at 1.0.  Much like JCR, CMIS is a protocol that allows interoperability for document repositories of different systems (there is a good blog post about different use cases that can be found here).  The major advantage of CMIS over JCR is, well, it is not bound to...

The Official Portal of The UAE Government Region: The United Arab Emirates Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) sits in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf and boasts the sixth largest oil reserve in the world. As a member of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, and OPEC, UAE features...

Careers at Total Region: France Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Total operates as the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world and is also a world-class chemicals manufacturer. Featured in more than 130 countries, Total has nearly 100,000 employees who are working to develop and offer new energy solutions. Browse...

Yesterday we wrapped up the first sprint of the Liferay Community's 100 Paper Cuts program, and at at 80% solution rate, I'm calling it a success!  A big round of applause goes to the volunteers of this program: Szymon, Rafal, Juan, Milan, Deb, Boubker, Corne, Tomas, Maarten, and our newest member, Hitesh! Of the 10 papercuts identified, 8 have been resolved.  In the next...

All secure RSS feeds now transparently support BASIC  Authentication. The behavior is such that when you're logged in, the feeds will simply work as expected if you open them directly in the browser. If you log out, you'll suddenly be promted for BASIC  Authentication. If you use the url with an external RSS client and that client supports BASIC Authentication...

University of Eastern Finland Region: Finland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The University of Eastern Finland stands as one of the largest universities in Finland. It seeks to be among the top three most prominent universities in Finland and among the world’s leading 200 universities, as faculty and staff members actively participate in the various mobility...

One of the nice things about working for Liferay is the flexibility I have in where I can work.  Though originally from LA, my wife and I currently live in the UK and I work from home in the UK.  While this is great for many reasons, it is also really hard to collaborate with colleagues. Well, this past week, I had the great privilege of spending some focused time with my...

Time for another installment of Community Roundup!  I enjoy taking a tour of the Liferay Community in these blog posts, I hope you find them useful.  Lots of items of interest in the last 2 weeks, so let's get started. The official announcement page is up for the 2011 East Coast Symposium (ECS) in Washington, D.C. in May.  The Call For Papers is still...

Hello all, Its been awhile since the last Liferay IDE release as I've been busy on some tooling for our EE customers, however, along the way I've been adding new features and improvements to IDE as well.  So we've pushed out a new Liferay IDE v1.2 release today.   As with all previous releases it can be installed (or updated) via the update-site URL: ...

Liferay Portal provides a WebDAV URL to all documents in the Document Library so that you can access the documents from your computer's desktop. While this is a great feature, it can be a little annoying to    1) copy the WebDAV URL    2) open Microsoft Word (for example)    3) click the open icon   ...

A growing number of websites are adopting OAuth to authorize third-party applications to interact with a user's resources.  For example, back on August 31, 2010, Twitter flipped the kill-switch on Basic Auth and starting requiring all third-party Twitter applications to authenticate using OAuth.  Other sites (ie: service providers) supporting OAuth include...