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...
by XTIVIA | Apr 30, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Perspectives, Portals
Recently I was thinking about how I describe to others what our group does on a daily basis. Perhaps it’s my background with startups, but I’ve long felt that having a good elevator pitch for yourself or your company increases your ability to communicate...
by XTIVIA | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Sharing links on Facebook and Twitter is a huge traffic driver for websites. We’ve all pasted a link into that little box and watched that preview magically appear, but how does it know what to put in there? The answer is ‘Well, it does kind of, but not...
by XTIVIA | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Portals
In a previous blog I had posted what can only be described as a rather complicated process for enabling Xuggler in Liferay 6.1. The primary problem was Xuggler itself. Since then, Xuggler, had a couple of releases that greatly improved it’s deployability,...
by Keith O'Connell | Apr 23, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Introduction Liferay’s out-of-the-box packaging provides a set of ready-made “bundles” which include a functional application server configured to work with the Liferay application. While these “bundles” do make it convenient for an individual to quickly start up a...
