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On August 3, 2015 the JCP Executive Committee approved the ballot for starting JSR 378: Portlet 3.0 Bridge for JavaServer™ Faces 2.2. This is the first time that Liferay will be leading a JSR and as the Spec Lead I will be heading up the stewardship role. Liferay will also be represented by Vernon Singleton, Juan Gonzalez, and Kyle Stiemann as members of the Expert Group. ...

My Documents View New Liferay Sync UI Today Liferay released Liferay Sync 3, the latest version of its popular document sharing add-on for Liferay. Download it from the Downloads page, read the official documentation, and see below for more details on this release! Downloads You can get Liferay Sync (server and Desktop...

Dear community, As you already know, Liferay Connected Services is an online tool that offers services to help our customers succeed on their Liferay projects. One of its several useful services which has been very welcomed by our LCS users is the presentation of pages and portlets metrics. This enables you to analyze your portal’s usage and can help you find performance...

When working with the web content management part of Liferay you quickly start using the Asset Publisher because of its versatility. This portlet enables you to gather and present different kinds of content in a multitude of ways. It can gather content in a dynamic way, by means of a search in a certain scope, on one or more asset type, filtering on tags/categories, or manually, where...

JQuery Data table is way of present our data at client side and we can show case data and we can perform operations like sorting, update, page nation and many other operations we can perform on data table.   JQuery Data table is very popular jQuery plugin which built it on top of JQuery library. JQuery Data table have very good community and plenty of...

It looks like I'll stay on this™ side of the atlantic ocean this year, so I'm concentrating on introducing the big events that I'm attending next and link to the others, in the hope that I'm not missing any. If you are in other parts of the world: All of our events are worth going to and you'll get your personal share of ideas, contacts and great conversations. I got my first...

If you thought August was being a bit boring in terms of news, here we come to spice it up with yet another new milestone release on our road to Liferay 7. And it’s not just any release. This will be the last milestone release of the series. Yup, you’ve heard right; the next release will be our first alpha release already. So this is a great moment to take a look at the ongoing work...

On August 11, 2015 Liferay released the 6th General Availability (GA) version of Liferay Faces: Liferay Faces 4.2.5-ga6 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 *NEW* Release Notes (420 Issues) - PrimeFaces 5.2/4.0 - RichFaces 4.5.6 Liferay Faces 3.2.5-ga6 JSF 2.1 + Liferay Portal 6.2  Release...

Those of you who were following the Frontend trends the last two years, would know that there was a big movement toward the next version of JavaScript, previously know as ES6 and now as ECMAScript 2015 (ES2015). If you just want to know what is this blog post about, here it is - writing ES2015 and loading JS modules as specified in the standard, as well as installing and using...

First of all announcement for Vaadin developers: As from issue LPS-57525 we are not shipping Vaadin with Liferay core anymore. But no worries, Vaadin can be deployed to Liferay 7 as a set of OSGi components. Preface: So as everyone who follows Liferay product development knows that Liferay 7 is a big step towards of modularity and this modularity is achieved with OSGi...

My very first blog post. To be honest I've said for months that I was going to start doing this but there just always seems to be something more "urgent". Today I promised someone on the forums that I would write this one -- so maybe this will get the ball rolling for me. DISCLAIMER: I did this several months ago so I am not sure how much has changed since then. It worked great...

Extending Liferay core functionality is rather easy. You can use hook or (if needed) ext plugins to extend the functionality. But what if you want to extend a custom plugin (e.g. one you downloaded from the Liferay Marketplace)? Of course you could download the sources of that plugin and extend it to your needs. But this way you cannot separate your extensions from the original...

A little while back, I gave a presentation on a new command line tool that the tooling team was hoping to create to help ease development for Liferay. While we were able to get a working prototype for demonstration purposes we quickly realized that the project would never succeed with the current state of Liferay. The issue was that all of our tools required a bundle of Liferay....

Liferay UK will be hosting some dev.live sessions this November 4th prior to our annual conference on the 5th at Thistle Hotel, Marble Arch, London. Get ready for an exciting afternoon with lot's of tech talks and development for Liferay. This will be followed by a relaxing evening Meetup especially arranged for the occasion with some drinks and friends :) Topics for the...

Do you like conceptualizing and noting important details about Liferay? Do you enjoy explaining terms used in Liferay and in technologies related to Liferay? If so, then it's time you poured this knowledge into Liferaypedia--Liferay's encyclopedia of everything “Liferay”. It's a part of https://dev.liferay.com/. Think of the benefits you and the Liferay community will reap by...

Here we go again with another crazy summer app contest! This year, to celebrate the release of Liferay Screens, we are holding another community app building contest with some sweet, sweet prizes! I am happy to announce the opening of the 2015 Liferay Screens App Contest! Build a cool app using Liferay Screens and win! What is Liferay Screens? I'm glad you asked! Liferay...

Just a quick note... Vaadin 7.5.0 was released at the end of June, 2015. I've completed an initial round of testing, and Vaadin 7 Control Panel version 1.0.3.0 is totally compatible with 7.5.0.  All themes compiled and so did the widgetsets. If you run into any problems with 7.5.0 compatibility, please let me know...

It's not easy shopping for enterprise portal software. There are many factors to consider such as reliability, long-term costs and the ease of development. Not to mention things like meeting compliance standards or working with a customer service team that actually cares about your needs. Regardless, the goal of any sensible organization is to maximize business value by...

I've been having an ongoing 'discussion' with a good friend of mine about the nature of open source and what constitutes open source. It makes me want to turn it into a proper noun, Open Source, because his interpretation seems to me to be quite purist. In a kinda 1999, utopianist way which is very specific. His argument (did I say argument?) is that unless it...

Together with the summer season and the sunny days the sixth milestone has come too. We are getting closer to the end of the year, and this will be one of the last milestones so all development teams are working on finishing some of the features and improvements that have been months in the works to get everything ready for the alpha/beta cycles. This milestone comes very shortly...