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String in Java is special, because its immutable particularity. Immutable String is the cornerstone of Java Security and thread-safety, without it Java is brittle. But immutable comes with price, whenever you "modify" String, you are actually creating a new one, and in most cases the old one becomes garbage. Thanks for Java's automatic garbage collection mechanism, programmers...

A few months ago Minhchau created a migration tool to move document library files from using one hook to another (e.g., JCRHook to AdvancedFileSystemHook).  He showed the code for it and wrote several plugins to handle this.  Due to popular request, this has now been moved into trunk!  I just checked in the code to help facilitate a move from one hook to another.

Starting to recover from jetlag after a two week trip Los Angeles and Liferay retreat. One of the things we finally made some progress during the developer retreat  is providing official maven artifacts for Liferay as well as porting our plugins sdk to Maven. Things are not quite completed but I will provide some instructions here for all early adopters. So our goal is to...

Go Big Event Inc. Region: Canada Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Go Big Event is an online registration service company based in Edmonton, Alberta. They offer simple and convenient event registration solutions to save time and money. Their services include secure online registration, credit card payments, participant management, automatic email notifications...

Digital-h Region: Spain Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Digital-h is the hub of all things digital media in the city of L'Hospitalet, including Radio L'Hospitalet, L'Hospitalet City Journal, and Television L'Hospitalet. The site offers live feeds on the latest and greatest happenings in the area.  

Poken Region: Switzerland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Poken is a technology that utilizes a proprietary Near Field Communication technology to create a "social business card." It's an easy way to share contact details and online social networks in the real world. Just hold two poken keychains together to quickly exchange information.   ...

Dream Dallas Habitat for Humanity Region: USA Version: Liferay Portal EE 4.4 Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity is a Christian ministry that builds quality, affordable homes in partnership with deserving families. Since their incorporation in 1986, Dallas Habitat and its contributors have built over 700 homes and served as a catalyst for the...

I have just came back from 2009 retreat, it was really fun. A lot of old faces and new faces, a lot of fun talking and genius ideas. I am glad i was there, i had a good time In the retreat a few people told me they read my blogs which surprised me a lot, i only wrote two blogs and it was about almost one year ago, feel sorry about this. I used to plan to write a series for...

Another great example of the innovation that the Liferay community keeps contributing is the recently released  Liferay Linked Data Module from IMC Technologies. Linked Data is an approach that lets you both publish and access data in a way that is semantically specified according to standard models, interoperable, cross-referenceable and remotely queryable. This...

Ukraine-Switzerland MCH Programme Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The longstanding Ukrainian-Swiss Mother and Child Health partnership started in 1997 and aims at supporting health sector reform and modernization of health services for pregnant women and their partners, newborns and infants, medical personnel of primary and secondary levels of perinatal care,...

I was recently asked about Maven in relation to Liferay.  Although we don't have any official support for Maven.  Others have made it work with Liferay. An old co-worker turn me on to this.  I haven't tried it, but he has and loves it.  Hope it helps you in your development. Creating Liferay portlet with liferay-maven-sdk

Open Interactive Region: Switzerland Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 Open Interactive's philosophy is to provide good products and services at fair prices by working exclusively with open source web software. For over 20 years they've helped clients who are looking for a total one-stop service for their website needs, from start to finish and beyond. ...

Amgen Scholars Region: USA + Europe Version: Liferay Portal 5.2 The Amgen Scholars Program provides hundreds of selected undergraduate students with the opportunity to engage in a hands-on research experience at some of the world's leading educational institutions. The Program seeks to increase learning and networking opportunities for students committed...

One November 17, 2009, I had the great honor of presenting at the 2nd annual Accenture Open Source Conference in Amsterdam.  Accenture has made great strides over the past couple of years in spreading the gospel of open source software, and with the introduction of the Accenture Innovation Center for Open Source, I think that we are on the cusp of an even greater rate of...

Sony Reader Club Region: Germany Version: Liferay Portal 5.1 By registering with the Sony Reader Club, you can enjoy free EPUB downloads, access to the Reader forums, and fun tips on using the Sony Reader and other accessories.  

Electronic Arts Inc. Mobile Region: USA Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices and the Internet. EAmobile.com provides info, news, and screenshots on their latest hit titles...

Do you maintain/use a Mobile delivered App? Do you maintain/use a Point of Sale delivered App? Do you maintain/use a Kiosk delivered App? Do you maintain/use a Terminal Server delivered App? Do you maintain/use a Thin Client delivered App? Do you maintain/use a standalone or embeddable Web App or Widget?   If you can answer yes to anyone of these questions,...

Staysure Region: UK Inspired by the growing market and economic power of the over 50s, Staysure.co.uk Limited was formed in 2004 as an insurance intermediary specialising in the senior sector. Regulated by the Financial Services Authority, the management team has over 50 years collective industry experience and a keen interest in new media as a means...

The folks at Integrated Semantics have developed a Flex/AIR-based front-end for Liferay Portal. This is a great example of Liferay's flexibility when it comes to separating the presentation tier from the back-end services, standards implementations, APIs, and authentication / authorization capabilities. Gartner's portal decomposition ideas are at play here (portal server providing...

This is very late in coming, but I wanted to do a recap of our latest round of Symposiums that took place in September and October of 2009.  Three events took place around the globe in Los Angeles, Frankfurt, and Bangalore in a span of just two weeks, with hundreds in attendance at each event. This was a landmark conference series for Liferay and we are very proud of our teams...