by Keith O'Connell | Apr 20, 2014 | Blog, Portals
One of the most common questions we encounter when starting up a new Liferay project is: “Which Liferay bundle should I use for installation?” Our response is often not what clients are expecting to hear; in most cases, we do not recommend that you use any...
by XTIVIA | Apr 19, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Liferay Dynamic Data List is a powerful tool to create simple CRUD applications without writing any code. But it is not powerful enough to create a real dynamic application, because simple CRUD actions do not contain business logic. For example, if we want to...
by Asier Del Pozo | Apr 6, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
After talking about the Elastic Search main features, how to create an Elastic Search cluster, and the Liferay, Solr and Elastic Search comparison, here’s the most interesting part. Liferay and Elastic Search integration As far as I know no one...
by XTIVIA | Apr 3, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Tasked to think of an easy way for users to create a mega menu, I came up with a 2 portlet display/config portlet combo. At the same time, I also wanted to try JSF after hearing so many good things about it. Here we go! Menu Config Portet Let’s first see how the UI...
by Asier Del Pozo | Mar 23, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
To continue this series of blogs about Elastic Search, I would like to focus on performance. A lot of customers ask the big question: for search, what is the best solution? Liferay as is? Solr? Elastic Search? Anything else? Many people would say that there is no...
by XTIVIA | Mar 23, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Clustering Solr 4.x Summary The recommended method for clustering Solr versions 4 and above is by leveraging the product’s new SolrCloud distributed capabilities to manage horizontal instance scaling. SolrCloud provides the following advanced features: Automatic...
by XTIVIA | Jan 8, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Overview Recently we put together a demo site for a prospective customer, and I was asked to create a couple of portlets using the Drools rules engine for personalization. Implementation The requirements called for one portlet to display the user’s training...
by XTIVIA | Dec 27, 2013 | Blog, Portals
The Dockbar provides one-stop shopping for your Portal administration needs; but sometimes you either don’t like the default look of it (if you’re building from _styled) or you don’t feel like styling it from scratch (if you’re building from...
by Derek Nerenberg | Jul 12, 2013 | Blog, Databases, Enterprise Java, Portals
Set the transaction isolation level to READ_COMMITTED with READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT turned ON. Yay! When I mention the words “transaction isolation level” to SQL Server DBAs, the first words out of their mouths are almost always “READ...
