by Asier Del Pozo | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog, Databases, Portals
There are many tools for monitoring applications. One that we may want to use is JAMon, the Java Application Monitor; it can be really useful for discovering what the hell is going on in our application. We are going to view a quick introduce in it. But first, a...
by XTIVIA | Jan 10, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Liferay has out-of-the-box OpenOffice integration which is robust and works very well for converting web content to a variety of document formats, including PDF. However, this approach requires you to have a separate OpenOffice server running, which may not be desired...
by XTIVIA | Jan 9, 2013 | Blog, Portals
Twitter Bootstrap is a popular, easy-to-use front-end framework that not only allows for rapid prototyping, but also comes with a robust set of features that let you easily implement a responsive design. If you’re building a site from scratch, all you have to do...
by XTIVIA | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog, Portals
If you spend any time in blogs or in online I.T. press you hear Big Data, scalable solutions, and NoSQL databases all the time. One popular NoSQL database solution is Mongo DB. Mongo is “document-based”, not “table-based”. It...
by XTIVIA | Jan 1, 2013 | Blog, Portals
In web development and marketing, A/B testing or split testing is an experimental approach to web design (especially user experience design), which aims to identify changes to web pages that increase or maximize an outcome of interest (e.g., click-through rate for a...
by XTIVIA | Dec 21, 2012 | Blog, Portals
This post briefly explains how to compile mod_jk on the Centos6.3 OS. Mod_jk is an Apache module that is used to connect Tomcat to Apache Http server or other web servers. System Setup OS: Centos 6.3 Webserver: Apache Http Server 2.2.15 Application Server: ...
by XTIVIA | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog, Portals
The blog entry Add a New Language to Liferay contains a note at the bottom about using <spring:message> tags with UTF-8 (Unicode) languages. This entry is meant to expound on those notes a little more. There are two main ways to handle Unicode in properties...
by XTIVIA | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog, Portals
In this article I’ll briefly explain my experience of how SELinux can affect Tomcat clustering. My setup is a single host with two Tomcat application servers with Liferay Enterprise 6.1.20 installed in a vertical cluster. System Setup OS: Centos 6.3 Webserver:...
by XTIVIA | Dec 9, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Liferay currently supports about 40 languages out of the box. The full list of translated languages and their progress may be seen here: http://translate.liferay.com/pootle/ What about adding a language to Liferay that is not one of the ones supported? The Cherokee...
by XTIVIA | Dec 3, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Identity Provider Custom Assertions After a request by a customer to provide custom attributes for an Identity Provider initiated login, I looked into what it would take to provide the attributes that were requested (a brief introduction to SAML can be viewed here)....
