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...
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...
