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  Another Devcon conversation - make sure not to miss this event next year! I grabbed Chema Balsas, Software Engineer at Liferay Spain, and Emil Öberg, Consultant at Monator Technologies, a Liferay Partner Company in Sweden. This is a three-way conversation with Chema Balsas and Emil Öberg that we had during Liferay's Devcon 2014. Chema had a Theme-Workshop (sorry, no recording)...

I'm very happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA3! Download it now: [Tomcat Bundle] [JBoss Bundle] [GlassFish Bundle] [Source Code] [Other bundles and Files] [Quick Start] [Detailed Install Instructions]. This release is particularly noteworthy. Why is that? Well, if you attended DevCon in Germany last year, you probably don't remember it, but I promised you...

Why SSO? Using single sign on (SSO) is probably something that more and more systems aim towards. A large benefit is improved user experience, perhaps not so much for publically available sites. These sites generally attach to Facebook, Twitter or Google and await the crowds going 'aaaaw' in appreciation of the the techniques used.   No, instead,...

On the Liferay Faces Team, we try to reply to as many posts in the Liferay Faces forums as we can. This has been extremely beneficial for our team and our project. If you're a developer, I want to encourage you to get involved in similar ways in your community by listing some of the benefits the Liferay Faces team has recieved because of our involvment in our forums: Helping...

Congratulations, you made it to the new year. You're still here, and with a bit of luck, so is your company. Or maybe not. But it's the new year, so at least you have some fresh resolve and a smoldering heap of innovative ideas. And we all know how dangerous new ideas can be, right?   Let's face it. The firestarters aren't the ones who are kicking...

Hi Liferay Screeners! After several months of hard work and few presentations to show you the first beta of Liferay Screens, we're ready to release this second beta. This version is full of fixes you reported and new features you requested after our presentations, in our forums or via email during the first phase of the beta program. If you don’t know what I’m talking...

Originally published on Medium     One of the cool things about working at Liferay is that you have the freedom to propose any crazy idea that comes to your head and there’s a high chance that they might like it. You know, like stopping the company’s Engineering department to work on different projects for an entire...

Liferay provides an API to call any methods using Reflection. First of all why do we use reflection API to call any method. In terms of liferay, liferay loads the classes from different scopes like application scope, portal scope, portlet scope etc. There are some classes which is in portal-impl.jar file and we can not use that classes directly in our application because this jar...

Background and Need: Our campus portal (Site) administrators have a need to review permissions across their sites of various objects. In particular, we see requests for page, portlet, and Web Content permissions reports that we currently offer our site managers. They have also expressed desire for Document Library permission reports. We have over 1600 roles in Liferay and some...

The Audience Targeting app enhances the engagement experience of your portal by providing the right information in the right context to your visitors in new and exciting ways. Audience Targeting for Liferay Portal 6.2 CE and EE is now available in the Liferay Marketplace. [Download for CE or EE | Documentation]  Audience Targeting easily allows for the creation...

Hi everyone and Merry, Merry Christmas to all of you!  In the last couple of months I had a lot of fun playing with Go, a very promising compiled, concurrent, garbage-collected, cross-platform language by Google. I thought it would have been nice to use my newly acquired skills to build something useful for the Liferay community, and so, after my Liferay SDK for Windows, I...

It’s the end of the year season and most programmers take a few days of to spend time with family and/or friends and of course check out some new technologies. While we know there are many exciting new techs to choose from, we wanted you to have at least one more option to choose from by making available a new and shiny milestone of Liferay 7. This is a great opportunity to see the...

Overview The article outlines configuration for tracing the Liferay SAML 2.0 Provider EE plugin (SAML plugin). The SAML plugin enables Liferay Portal 6.2 EE to act as a SAML Service Provider (SP) or Identity Provider (IdP). It is common to experience some bumps when initially configuring the SAML plugin for the role of SP or IdP. The following logging configuration may...

  The nerdiest topic so far: I'm speaking to Thomas Schweiger, german national barista champion 2010-2012. He was sponsored by our german partner Prodyna to prepare coffee during this years Devcon and Portal Solutions Forum Germany. We talked about What do you need to do to become Barista Champion? Can you describe upfront what your coffee will taste like when...

  I had a short meeting with Bryan Ho, Lead Graphic Designer at Liferay - With that role it's obvious that we're bridging the audio/visual gap again: A very visual topic in an audio only podcast. But if you're not driving while you listen to this podcast, you can click the links from the shownotes and browse through the archives. Apart from being the creator of the Radio Liferay...

At this year's Liferay DevCon, Suraj Bihari had an interesting session about short URLs. As I was about to do something like this anyway, I decided to make it public from the beginning.   And now everyone can have a look at the result: Ancud ShortURL Portlet   Technically, it's a really simple Liferay MVC Service Builder portlet built with Ant and extended by...

  This is my conversation with Stian Sigvartsen, winner of the Marketplace App contest with his Social Apps Proxy (Link) and well known member of the UK Liferay usergroup, working in Devon and quite a lot with Liferay. Our paths cross quite often, but we finally found some time to talk about Stian's award winning app which basically takes all the boring stuff out of OAuth...

  I'm talking with Brett Swaim, Principal Consultant at Liferay US, on application performance monitoring, horror stories and things to avoid. Brett is dealing with a lot of customers. He's one of Liferay's go-to resources for performance tuning and monitoring. Brett had a presentation on DevOps Best Practices with Liferay, Logstash, Kibana, Elasticsearch, and New Relic  at...

  At Devcon, I took the opportunity to meet several people - stay tuned for several more episodes during the rest of this year. For this episode, I spoke with Zsigmond Rab. Zsigmond is Lead Engineer, Technical Support & Trainer at Liferay Hungary. This is a short and informal tongue-in-cheek talk about support-related issues. We talked and joked about The...

Portlet is small fragment of dynamic content in the web page. And this dynamic content may be text,HTML,xml or some other MIME format. Portlet technology implemented by JSR 168 and JSR 286 standards.   Generally in web application we are very familiar with servlet technology and portlet technology is similar to servlet technology but it consist its own...