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Delivering Your Enterprise: Adaptability and Maintainability
This article is part of an ongoing series. See the blog entry Delivering Your Enterprise: The ilities for an overall discussion. We've all been on projects where management stood up and announced some variation of "The project is running late - we don't have time to do any more...
Unit Testing SalesLogix– 8.1 Update, and OpenSlx
Unit Testing Saleslogix (now called Infor CRM) is possible and easy to set up with the recent improvements to the OpenSlx library. The SlxAppSetup class is what you need to initialize the Saleslogix framework and enable you to use EntityFactory, SessionScopeWrapper etc from the...
Display time taken to render a portlet in Liferay
Improving application performance and optimizing application performance is key to enhancing user experience with websites. Monitoring individual portlet load times and optimizing individual portlets can contribute to better user experience and better overall performance of an...
Liferay Portlet Sandboxing
You may not be aware yet, but there's a new liferay feature called Portlet Sandboxing. You can find the "Portlet Sandbox EE" plugin in the Liferay Marketplace. This feature was designed to isolate portlets applications from liferay and other portlets. The...
Removing Orphaned Oracle Datapump Jobs
So for various reasons I run into orphaned datapump jobs either due to a session failure during the import or for some other unknown reason for a failed import. What I wanted to show you really quick was how to find them and how to remove them so you can run your datapump job...
Crystal Reports with Dynamic Parameters in SalesLogix v8.1
EDIT: Dynamic Parameters are now supported with the introduction of the Saleslogix Reporting Assistant introduced in v8.1 SNC 03b. However the instructions below work for previous versions which aren't on the SNC 03b update. An important current shortcoming of reporting on...
Delivering Your Enterprise: Security
This article is part of an ongoing series. See the blog entry Delivering Your Enterprise: The ilities for an overall discussion. Ah, Security. It's one of those things most of us don't think about until there's a catastrophic failure. It's a fundamental part of our enterprise...
IBM UDB DB2 Database restore and SQL1035N
SQL1035N The database is currently in use. SQLSTATE=57019 IBM UDB DB2 V9.7/10.1/10.5 on Windows/UNIX/Linux I have been trying to create a script that will refresh the test database using QA data on a regular schedule. As part of the script I force all the...
Liferay integration with Solr cloud – Part 2
As a follow up to my last blog post on Integration Liferay with Solr Cloud, I felt that this post will help enhance Liferay's integration with Solr cloud further by reducing the number of indexing requests that are fired off to Solr instances thus reducing the load on Solr...
Delivering Your Enterprise: Availability, Reliability, and Scalability
This article is part of an ongoing series. See the blog entry Delivering Your Enterprise: The ilities for an overall discussion. Today, girls and boys, we'll talk about Availability, Reliability, and Scalability. Is this simply a way to keep your boss and your customers from...