by XTIVIA | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
IBM WebSphere AppServer (WAS) is a true enterprise-class server which is used to service a wide variety of applications. WAS is a robust, scalable application server which provides a plethora of options; however, some of the options can be downright confusing. ...
by XTIVIA | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
We recently came across an issue in a client’s environment where they were leveraging Google Search Appliance for search. The client was trying to filter documents by last updated date and filtering documents by document dates was not working at all. GSA provides a...
by Matt Wolinski | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Portals
I recently came across a unique issue with a client. I was working on some performance optimizations due to latency on page load. I found an interesting issue around caching and this inspired my blog. Without giving any specific details, the client...
by XTIVIA | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
The issue We saw an issue recently where the database connector for Google Search Appliance (GSA) wasn’t indexing all the records in the database table. Using GSA database connector, we were trying to index a database view that had about 200,000 rows. Checking...
by XTIVIA | Jun 14, 2014 | Blog, Portals
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...
by Matt Wolinski | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog, Portals
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...
by XTIVIA | May 23, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Perspectives, Portals
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...
by XTIVIA | May 14, 2014 | Blog, Portals
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...
by XTIVIA | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
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...
by XTIVIA | May 5, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Overview Liferay is at the forefront of providing integration with many popular platforms for Documents and Media. One of the options provided by Liferay out-of-the-box is integration with S3. S3 is a service provided by Amazon. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is...
