by XTIVIA | Sep 17, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Portlets are the basic building blocks of any site running Liferay. The default portlet styles are fine; but to really make your site sing, you can get a handle on them and dress them up to look as good as the rest of that theme you so lovingly handcrafted. Let’s...
by XTIVIA | Sep 3, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
This question comes up a lot. I think it’s important to understand the primary features and functions of what each does. Portals arrived in the the late 1990’s with Yahoo.com and Excite.com. They are a way of personalizing and aggregating...
by Vivek Agarwal | Sep 1, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Perspectives, Portals
These are exciting times in our Enterprise Portal practice – we are implementing challenging projects for some of the most recognizable names in Corporate America, growing our top-notch team, and solving interesting technical problems. All of this translates to being...
by XTIVIA | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Portals
Part 2: Personalization and Security A previous blog post in this series introduced the Liferay dashboard framework that XTIVIA has developed as serviceware that is available for purchase by our Liferay implementation customers. This post will continue the...
by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Liferay has extensive web content management capabilities. It can easily scale to present millions of pieces of content via the web. But, how do your users find what they want? Enterprise search can be a mystery to the uninitiated. Often it becomes a...
by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Portals
A requirement that is often found in enterprise IT environments is the need for “dashboards” that provide integrated, highly visual (e.g., chart-driven) representations of key data to executives, analysts and key decision makers. In addition to the data...
by Michael Hahn | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Adding custom mobile device rule handlers in Liferay 6.1 enhances mobile support and customization. This guide walks you through creating a custom rule handler, starting with setting up a liferay-hook.xml file and configuring the portal properties. By following these...
by XTIVIA | May 23, 2012 | Blog, Portals
I have been using Liferay EE 6.1 with OpenLDAP the past few days, using different testing scenarios for functionality and determining pitfalls. The goal was to test complete functionality, such as authentication, importing, exporting, and password policies,...
by XTIVIA | May 3, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Liferay has a robust service-layer API for developers to use. However, sometimes there are cases when you need to use methods in the internal Liferay API. You can’t use the internal API directly, but you can invoke it indirectly with the PortalClassInvoker...
by XTIVIA | Apr 13, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
So you have Liferay running merrily up on Amazon’s AWS, things are going well, and you decide you wish to add a new feature, such as perhaps the WSRP portlet. (Because this is a Liferay supported portlet, available from the trusted repository, is known to deploy...
