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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...

Recently LCS team had really hard time with writing integration tests for service builder generated classes. Arquillian test patterns written for core portal plugin simply didn't work for our case and mocking service layer was pointles. As time passed by and code base grow we simply got angry and decided to stop with all development untill we are not able to run test as any other...

Today I was trying to enable SSL with NGINX as Load Balancer for a demo Liferay cluster, I thought to share my experiences on how I did that with this small post. I am skipping the certificate generation where I followed standard openssl ways for a self signed certificates. This simple setup I had NGINX server handles all SSL traffic from the outside world , post SSL termination...

Looking at Liferay 7 Milestone 7 download stats, it seams many have tried it already. Yet considering the size of the community, the numbers are not that impressive. I'm pretty sure it's not because it's too hard or too time consuming to do it. However if that was your excuse, you may need to think of another one because trying out Liferay just got easier. How much easier? As easy as...

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...

Everyone wants their systems to be highly available, and for good reason. The age-old adage “time is money” has never been more true than in today’s interconnected world. Companies clamor to make sure their systems are always online, working around the clock to get as close as possible to the high availability nirvana of 99.9999 percent. Load balanced and clustered setups offer...

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...

If you are struggling to choose the right web platform for your project, you’re not alone. There are many options to choose from, each claiming to be better than the rest. How do you choose for your specific project? The answer largely depends on the context of what you are trying to achieve. But whether you intend to build an employee intranet, e-commerce site, or anything in...

The benefit of eLearning is that it is independent of time and space. This makes it also flexible and cost-effective. On the other hand, it challenges the learner to focus on studying since there is no teacher around. Therefore, the learning experience should be motivating and engaging. As a result, the ones designing and creating eLearning material and platforms might find it...

My wife has always given me a great amount of grief when it comes to doing even small improvement projects around the house. Almost always, I see the opportunity to get something else done "while we're at it." "Going to be doing some drywall? This is the perfect time to get some extra insulation in that wall." "While we're at it, I don't like the wiring back in here. We need to redo...

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...

Valamis 2.4 Enterprise Edition release - New Features Summary Valamis 2.4 Enterprise Edition has been released. This version is significantly enriched with new functionalities and introduced by the number of new features.   Request for a Valamis Demo Are you interested in Valamis? You can contact us and request a demo in order to get a better...

Recently, my company was a sponsor at the Red Hat Summit, a large open source technology event with 5,000+ attendees and 80+ exhibitors. We knew a conference of this size would be overwhelming and make it difficult for us to be noticed. But we had a plan to leverage a big announcement as the main attraction of our booth. If you’re looking to create buzz around a big announcement...

If you are struggling to choose the right web platform for your project, you’re not alone. There are many options to choose from, each claiming to be better than the rest. How do you choose for your specific project? The answer largely depends on the context of what you are trying to achieve. But whether you intend to build an employee intranet, e-commerce site, or anything in...

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...

In the digital age, companies are learning fast that meeting customer expectations and driving business outcomes go beyond brand recognition or product availability.                         ...

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...