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... and not a joke:) Application servers wiki document collects informations about appservers Liferay portal can be deployed to. More important are the children pages, with various tips, tweaks, tricks and info. For now, there are some Websphere and Weblogic tips, since those I've been frequently working on. As time goes by, there will be more and more info. It's not much for the...

Howdy folks, time for another community roundup.. It's been an action-packed couple of weeks at Liferay.  The first month of 2011 is almost over, and we're chugging along nicely.  Lots of items to mention, plus some upcoming events and community programs to discuss. Don't miss this week's Liferay LIVE on OpenSocial and Liferay.  Paul Hinz will present new...

Let's read the tags content in following XML snippet: <tag>foo&amp;boo</tag> with the single call to (supposing everything is initialized correctly up to this point): xmlStreamReader.getText() We expect the string 'foo&boo' as result, right? No! The return value is (or may be) just 'foo'. XMLStreamReader#getText() is allowed to break the text content...

School Specialty Region: US Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 EE School Specialty is a educational solutions provider focused on providing creative and comprehensive tools that will help students succeed. Here educators can discover curriculum standards for various subjects in addition to supplemental learning products and basic school supplies. Visit the...

This is a new cool feature I worked on with Brian and it’s coming on 6.1 as well as 6.0 EE SP2 and 5.2 EE SP6. With this feature you can add new struts actions to portal from a hook plugin and you can override any existing action with it. There are two interfaces com.liferay.portal.kernel.struts.StrutsAction and com.liferay.portal.kernel.struts.StrutsPortletAction. The StrutsAction...

Last week I wrote about a hook we wrote for Expandos using MongoDB. I just wanted to let you know that it just finished review and is ready for consumption. It's been renamed to mongodb-hook in case we ever want to persist more services to it. Have a look and enjoy!

I wrote wiki article about how to configure JAAS that uses OpenLDAP to auth users. Article also announce new feature i.e. portal property: portal.jaas.auth.type that allows JAAS to authenticate users based on their email address, screen name, user id, or login ( determined by the property "company.security.auth.type"). The only problem with current settings described in article is...

Hey Everyone,  This last year has been an exciting time to be involved in the Liferay Training Program and I wanted to let you know what we've been up to and to give you a preview of some of the exciting things to come.   Portal Administrator training went through a major overhaul to provide more relevant examples and to connect all of the exercises together into an...

Hi all, welcome to another installment of Community Roundup!  The last one was 2 weeks ago (been busy with a few other initiatives, see below), so I've got a lot to share.  Once the community landing page is complete (it's pretty much done now, just doing some final tweaks to make it magical), you can get even more up-to-date community news there, but I'll continue to...

Thanks to all of you, Liferay has an active and growing community that has made a lot of contributions in 2010.  However, with that growth comes inevitable growing pains! One of the areas in which we have experienced continued pain is in the reporting, analysis, and resolution of tickets via Liferay's issue tracking system (based on Atlassian's JIRA).  The problem, as I've...

Update: The expando-mongodb-hook plugin is now committed to SVN and available from trunk. Over the past few months the hype around NoSQL type databases had really been heating up the tech news and blog feeds. There seems to be an overwhelming desire to find scallability solutions that don't seem to be addressed with an RDBMS. What is Liferay to do? Could Liferay support...

I want to make a quick update regarding the latest thing we've been working on: new way of publishing content with the Asset Publisher. The 'classic' way of publishing content with the Asset Publisher consisted on clicking the "Add New" button, the page changed the context to the respective page of the portlet (i.e. Document Library) where the user had to fill the information, and...

Greetings from the next-to-last day of 2010.  Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season!  Liferay is working hard to bring you another great year of technology, innovation, and fun.  I for one am looking forward to the huge number of community events that we have planned (and some that aren't yet planned).  I hope you can make it to one of them...

The Liferay in Action MEAP update came out on Christmas Eve, so I wanted to make sure that I let everyone knew about it in case you, like me, have been offline for the past few days. So Merry Christmas from me, Liferay and Manning: you get a whopping big chapter which covers a lot of ground:    - Liferay's asset system, which undergirds a lot of other...

A lot of Liferay TagLibs use including JSP files to present their content. Is there any difference between TagLib used JSPs and the normal ones? Functionally, they are the same thing. But when we see them from performance view, there is a huge difference. Whenever we do a jsp include, there are two major performance related steps:   1) Jsp servlet looking up. ...

Happy Holidays from Liferay and our community!  Hope everyone has a safe and fun-filled holiday season.  Liferay had an exciting and fun-filled 2010.  Partner program expansion, new Liferay offices throughout the world, the Liferay 6 release, new documentation, developer tools, magic quadrants, symposiums, the Liferay LIVE program, community development, and tons of...

Often we need to display data in a legacy schema. The usual way of doing this in any other application is to set up a new datasource, optionally set up an ORM, and display the data yourself. However, in Liferay there is a way to simplify this step considerably by using Service Builder. "Service Builder?" you say, "I thought that was only for creating entities in the Liferay DB?" ...

Finally returned from Liferay's annual employee retreat!  It was a fun-filled week and it's great to put a face with all the names I interact with on a daily basis.  I hope to see many of our community members in the coming weeks and months as well at our various events.  If you have a chance to attend a Liferay event (Symposium, Roadshow, or any other event), I...

We decided to relax a bit Wednesday night and headed out to a Lakers game. After all, we are in LA, and we love basketball here. We had some pretty good seats. Here's a pic of Kobe laying it up. Here's a pic of other Liferay peeps wearing our retreat shirt. We actually got on the jumbo cam 3 times! But nothing beats how the game ended. We were afraid it would be a...

We flew almost the whole company out to Los Angeles for our annual retreat. It's been a great few weeks of brainstorming and fellowship. If you're a Liferay user, community member, or a client - and ever wondered how we work and have fun - there's no better way to communicate it than through this video.