Blogs

Bryan H Cheung | Oct 22, 2014 3:52 PM

If you haven’t heard the news yet, Liferay has been named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals for the fifth year in a row, and we’ve placed second only to IBM—and well ahead...

Michael Williams | Oct 22, 2014 2:36 PM

I'm happy to announce that Liferay has listened to your feedback and created a tutorial on Using Liferay-UI Tabs and Sections. Using Liferay-UI's tabs and section tags are a quick and easy solution...

Olaf Kock | Oct 21, 2014 8:35 PM

Another first: This week's guest Máté Thurzó presents a brief 37000ft overview over Staging. Yes, this is literally 37000ft - we both were lucky to be invited to the North America Symposium 2014...

James Falkner | Oct 20, 2014 4:46 PM

A community challenge for you Liferay's worldwide conferences generate quite a bit of data, and I am challenging the community: Take this data, and do something more interesting than a boring list...

Eduardo P. García | Oct 20, 2014 9:38 AM

It was great to participate in the Liferay North American Symposium this year. With hundreds of Liferay users (customers, partners, community members...) and dozens of presentations, it was not...

Meera Prince | Oct 19, 2014 5:48 AM

Liferay have different types of roles for user. So whenever we develop portlet application we may get need to fetch user roles. The following article will give you more about Liferay Roles ...

Zeno Rocha | Oct 15, 2014 6:37 PM

Our latest official release (2.5.0) made in April introduced a lot improvements in terms of documentation and bug fixes . Since then we made public some few preview releases in June and July. ...

Fady Hakim | Oct 15, 2014 4:28 PM

In this blog I will show an example on how we can integrate external applications/services inside your liferay portal. In my example I created 2 portlets that you can use to integrate amazon search...

Richard Sezov | Oct 14, 2014 9:23 PM

At Liferay's North American Symposium, I announced the immediate availability of a new website we've developed specifically for those who use Liferay and write code on its platform. We call this...

Olaf Kock | Oct 13, 2014 8:16 PM

You probably know the basic installation instructions for Liferay Bundles: „unzip and run startup.sh“ - with this you get to a working Liferay installation in a minute. While this is great for a...

Fady Hakim | Oct 11, 2014 3:54 AM

I got this question a lot, specially after the javascript frameworks start to show up in the enterprise applications, what is better, portlets or widgets? why? -The most obvious different between...

Fady Hakim | Oct 11, 2014 3:45 AM

There is a big difference between Liferay Platform, and any other framework/Web Application. In general, Developers can develop anything, but the question is how long it will take them to do that...

Sami Ekblad | Oct 10, 2014 8:54 AM

Greetings from the Liferay Symposium. The event was great and we have had many good discussions with new and old Vaadin fans over here. And this is no wonder, like you learned earlier Vaadin-based...

Ravi Kumar Gupta | Oct 10, 2014 8:32 AM

Sometimes, Tomcat is not enough to run Liferay- reasons may include performance, client's wish etc. So here are the steps on how to configure Liferay instance on tc server 2.6. Same steps can be...

Sven Werlen | Oct 10, 2014 1:49 AM

During last Liferay North America symposium in Boston, I had the opportunity to attend to Máté's interesting presentation (Best Practices for Using Staging in Liferay 6.2). I have always been...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 8, 2014 11:32 AM

On last entry I made a quick overview over the proposed solution for the "problem" of building an analytics platform within the Liferay platform. Along this entry I will go deeper into the log data...

Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar | Oct 7, 2014 1:00 PM

Yesterday I was talking at the Liferay North America symposium here in Boston about how you can get more value of all the data you already (even if you are not aware you already own it). It has...

Bruno Farache | Oct 6, 2014 8:45 PM

Sync Beta 3.0 is out! We are very close to release Sync 3.0 and need your feedback! We have made a complete UI revamp since the last version, take a look at the screenshots bellow: ...

Jan Eerdekens | Oct 5, 2014 6:49 PM

Intro A lot of developers will probably know this feeling: you've just returned from a conference and seen lots of exciting new technologies and now you can't wait to try them out! For me one such...

David H Nebinger | Oct 2, 2014 7:33 PM

The Vaadin 7 Control Panel is a custom control panel designed to manage the shared Vaadin environment in Liferay. What is the shared Vaadin environment? It is one of two modes1 for creating Vaadin...

Ken Dong | Oct 2, 2014 2:40 PM

Throughout history, knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge to practical use has been of highest value to any organization. As one of the leading trainers on the Liferay Support Team, I...

James Falkner | Oct 2, 2014 7:00 AM

At this year's Spain Symposium and North America Symposium (which begins in about 294,682 seconds from now), I'm going to be holding a session on 21 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Contribute to the...

Pradeep Sharma | Oct 1, 2014 3:20 PM

Hello Liferay Community, Welcome to my first blogs at Liferay Sites. This blog is for the generation of report of Web Content. If you have a web content display portlet and you have enabled the...

Koen van Dillen | Oct 1, 2014 3:04 PM

Yesterday we visited the Rijksmuseum as a guest of KPN and 's Heerenloo. I was presented with their new and very special portal named JiP. JiP is a portal based on Liferay and has a customized...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Sep 30, 2014 7:51 PM

Currently, Liferay has excellent Eclipse support with the Liferay IDE and Liferay Developer Studio. However, as of this writing, Liferay has no official NetBeans plugins or IDE. So what are you to...

Eduardo P. García | Sep 29, 2014 10:15 AM

It’s less than a week left until Liferay North America Symposium (NAS), the first of a series of events where we’ll have the chance to first-hand explain to our users what we’ve been working on...

Neil Griffin | Sep 27, 2014 1:39 AM

On September 26, 2014 Liferay released the 2nd Milestone of Liferay Faces 4.2.0: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-m2 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 Release Notes All New Showcase The Liferay Faces Showcase has is...

Angela Wu | Sep 25, 2014 9:00 PM

The fall season is upon us, which means the Liferay Symposium North America is right around the corner! In order to maximize your experience, we suggest coming with a basic list of goals and...

Ken Dong | Sep 24, 2014 11:47 PM

Connection is one of the most important ways to reach your customer. It creates comfort and ultimately trust. I’ve observed that there are generally three types of people who connect well: the...

Martin Yan | Sep 24, 2014 4:28 PM

Recently, Apple announced the arrival of the Apple Watch, their latest product in the wearable tech market. This is big news because, well, it's Apple, but also because it had been several years...

Muhammed Shafeek V | Sep 24, 2014 4:57 AM

Hi, I am not common for you here. So I think I need to explain who am I and why I am here. : Muhammed Shafeek, a Sun Certified java professional having 2 years real time project experience in...

James Falkner | Sep 22, 2014 4:00 PM

This blog is part of a series of entries documenting how we are using iBeacons and Liferay to better engage our audiences at events throughout the year. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Update: Check out...

Muhammed Shafeek V | Sep 20, 2014 12:59 PM

Introduction Recently We are deployed our application named TOURFILLA(Travel social networking site, http://www.tourfilla.com ) on AWS EC2 instance. For doing that I refer a plenty of blogs and...

Nate Cavanaugh | Sep 17, 2014 2:54 PM

Since my last blog post, I have gotten quite a few emails and questions about what the future of front end engineering looks like now that Yahoo has ended new development on YUI. What I'd like to...

Vicki Lea Tsang | Sep 11, 2014 10:30 PM

Our most recent update to Social Office EE for Liferay Portal 6.2 was uploaded to Liferay Marketplace today. Social Office 3.1 EE provides several improvements over version 3.0 EE, released earlier...

Martin Yan | Sep 10, 2014 5:36 PM

You've got a good idea. In fact, it's brilliant. The market is currently lacking XYZ, and you've got just the right product or service that is going to be the first or best to address it. So,...

Angela Wu | Sep 8, 2014 9:59 PM

Welcome to Boston Liferay is excited to be in Boston this October for the Liferay Symposium North America. This year’s Back Bay venue captures the historic beauty of Bean Town as well as reflecting...

Máté Thurzó | Sep 8, 2014 8:35 PM

Tomorrow 4pm CEST I'm going to participate in the dev.life event series, and I give you 4 fine reasons to attend, or check out the recording later. You can learn how can you develop staging and...

Mohit Soni | Sep 5, 2014 6:20 AM

In this blog we will configure OpenAM as Identity provider and Liferay as Service Provider using SAML 2.0. Follow below steps : Download OpenAM 11.0.0 war file from...

Matti Tahvonen | Sep 2, 2014 1:46 PM

As you might know Liferay comes bundled with Vaadin. Now that Vaadin 7.3 is out as of today, it is perfect time to update your Vaadin portlet. Vaadin 7.3 is the largest release since Vaadin 7 in...