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More than ever before, people are foregoing their desktops and accessing services primarily through their phones and tablets. A strong mobile strategy is now a must-have for businesses. But what approach should your company take? Are websites or apps the better strategy? What about native versus hybrid apps?   In our latest publication, we look to...

Last year I spent a lot of time looking into how AngularJS could be used in a portal environment, more specifically Liferay. That research culminated in a pretty technical and quite lengthy blog post: Angular Adventures in Liferay Land. The problem with a blog post that you invest such an amount of time in is that it always remains in the back of your head, especially if there were...

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions about them because it's easy to abuse them for purposes for which they're not well suited - despite making the impression they might. CC BY-ND 2.0 by S. Benno Today I'm starting with...

Dear community: I'd like to make an important announcement today.   I've been presenting and demoing Liferay Cloud Services at Symposiums, events and customer visits for quite some time now, and most of those presentations had one thing in common: before I presented the product, people thought it was about a hosted or managed platform.  “No, no, no. These are...

Has open source software now become the preferred choice for enterprises? According to a Black Duck Software report, over half of all enterprises will utilize or contribute to open source in some manner in 2015.   What was once considered on the fringes of technology circles, reserved for pockets of developers or small businesses, has now become a...

One message that I have to give out in trainings doesn't fail to stun the students: When you deploy multiple hooks that override the same JSP in Liferay, you will first get undefined behavior and later end up with a damaged installation. CC BY 2.0 by David GoehringWhen you are installing applications from Liferay's marketplace you don't even have control over the JSPs that these...

Welcome to my first post! As a theme developer in Liferay I start this blog with the goal of sharing all type of useful content. I want to speak about a little frequent problem with dockbar, sometimes the dockbar could disturb if our portal design collides with it. The first advice that I can give you is to show the dockbar only when the user really needs it, for...

My Documents View New Liferay Sync UI Liferay has released a beta of the new version of Liferay Sync, the 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 clients)...

Hi everyone  In my first blog post almost one year ago, I talked about our Calendar Mobile Sync project, a free and open-source plugin which enables users to synchronize their Liferay calendars with Android and iOS devices, Mozilla Thunderbird clients, etc. via the CalDAV protocol. I also introduced our Calendar Connector for Exchange, a solution to synchronize Liferay...

Did you like what you saw in previous milestones? You didn’t feel there was enough meat to be worth your time? Get ready for Milestone 4 which comes bundled with many improvements and new features. Not only that, with this release we are launching the Liferay 7 Community Expedition program which will allow intrepid adventurers to work with the Liferay developers to find bugs and...

Several months ago, I read an article talking about a new concept for me: the Hacker in Residence. Since then, I saw pretty clearly that it would be a wonderful initiative within Liferay, given that we're a global and distributed company, with several teammates working from different countries and timezones. So three months ago, we were trying to make progress in the Android...

Taking forward from where Ray left off with a Telnet to Liferay OSGi, I am taking this step ahead to enable SSH access to Liferay OSGi console, here is my two little reasons on why I want to do it,  I want to secure my OSGi console access, in fact we will go a step ahead and integrate the Liferay Portal JAAS with OSGi ssh console, thereby allow all the Liferay Users...

This is a repeat post - same topic as in July 2013, when I've solved exactly the same problem on Liferay 6.1. Now it's time to update the solution to Liferay 6.2. But I am ahead of myself: What seems to be the problem? Liferay offers various layout templates that determine how the portlets are arranged on the page. When you build a Liferay page, you can drag&drop portlets on...

Are you new to Liferay? Found Liferay and want to know what it can do for you? Or are you with Liferay and still remember the time when you were new and unexperienced? Where did you come from and what was the biggest problem you faced? Can you ever learn enough? And how do you keep up with the current trends and new features? A platform as big as Liferay spans several...

Over the past couple of years Liferay has invested a considerable amount of effort to re-engineer Liferay Portal version 7.0 with modularity as the key focus. As part of this effort we've adopted OSGi as the modularity layer. In September of 2013 we decided that in order to provide ourselves the most direct access to OSGi expertise we should join the OSGi Alliance as a...

Liferay Explorers Miguel Ángel Pau & Moisés Belda Liferay Spain User Group During the Liferay 6.2 development cycle many of you participated in BugSquad and the Community Beta programs in order to provide valuable feedback and bug reports. This worked really well and we got a lot of positive feedback from over 70 participants in the program -...

The Liferay Faces team is focussed on developing our new 4.2.5-GA6 and 3.2.5-GA6 releases as well as our new Liferay Faces Showcase demo. But since not all projects will not have an opportunity to upgrade, we developed the following patches for our GA5 release: Issue Description Version(s) FACES-1513 Portlet...

The following document will provide the steps about installing the “Liferay 6.2 EE” on “JBoss 6.2 EAP” server. Softwares Required: - Download and unzip "JBoss6.2 EAP"  - Download latest version of the Liferay Portal .war file - Download Liferay’s Portal Dependencies   In this example I have used " ...

Hello, community! We would like to announce Liferay Push, our new framework for sending push notifications from Liferay Portal to your mobile apps. Push notifications is a technology that allows servers to broadcast messages to mobile devices. Instead of having your app poll the server for new messages every few seconds (that drains your phone battery and your monthly data...

Ich bin mal wieder auf Reisen - und zwar in Wien. Und welche bessere Gelegenheit Land und Leute kennenzulernen gibt es, als ein Liferay Community Meeting (oder Radio Liferay Hörertreffen)? Hofburg, Wien CC by-nd 2.0 by R. Halfpaap Es gibt keine Agenda, aber mit Liferay wahrscheinlich ein gemeinsames Gesprächsthema. Anmeldung erbeten (dann kümmere ich mich um Platzreservierung und...