by Keith O'Connell | Aug 8, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Creating Portlets for Integration With Salesforce.com Part 1: Consuming the Force.com Enterprise WSDL Integration with the Salesforce.com API is a feature that is highly desirable for any organization which uses that platform to track opportunities in the sales...
by Keith O'Connell | May 12, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Recently, I was asked by a client to investigate how they might configure a Liferay Portal version 6 instance to completely eliminate caching of a few specific entities; in particular, the User and Group entities. On the surface, this sounds like a...
by Vivek Agarwal | May 1, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java
During my work with various clients and projects on Java, I repeatedly run into smelly code, and find that my now ancient presentation from year 2000 is still as relevant as ever. The presentation I am talking about is on Bad Smells in Code that was derived from...
by XTIVIA | Apr 18, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Recently, for one of our Liferay implementations, we ran into an issue in production wherein users would randomly lose an organization role that they were assigned. It was relatively rare and no steps to reproduce the problem were provided. We didn’t know if the issue...
by Vivek Agarwal | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java
Sometime back a client asked me to put together a short write-up on my preferred Java exception handling approach, and I decided to capture this as a blog entry as well. Now exception handling is one of those controversial topics that has the Java world split on...
by Vivek Agarwal | Mar 1, 2011 | Blog, Databases, Enterprise Java
We recently switched one of our client’s WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal based infrastructure to a new physical environment. During our testing we found that we were getting stale connection exceptions in SystemOut.log and in the application...
