by Chetan Chadalavada | Feb 15, 2012 | Blog, Portals
This is a simple tutorial to create an input textbox with the alloy ui calendar datepicker. Simple DatePicker: 1. Include the below taglib directive to your jsp <%@ taglib prefix=”aui” uri=”http://liferay.com/tld/aui” %> 2. Wrap your date...
by Vivek Agarwal | Feb 13, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Perspectives, Portals
At XTIVIA, we have extensive experience delivering enterprise portal, content management, and collaboration solutions since the late 1990s, and have seen this product space mature and evolve over the years. We started with traditional commercial software from the...
by Keith O'Connell | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog, Portals
As a followup to my previous article detailing how to deploy Liferay in a Jboss managed domain, I decided that I should build on that and explain how to deploy the Apache Solr enterprise search engine to a separate node within the Jboss-managed domain. This will...
by Keith O'Connell | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Well, Liferay 6.1 CE GA1 is out, and anyone who uses Liferay should be very excited. This release sports a bunch of new features, including significantly improved site staging and publishing, dynamic data lists, improved mobility/social capabilities, faceted search,...
by XTIVIA | Feb 5, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Most of us would have seen the carousel on Liferay’s home page (http://www.liferay.com/). The Carousel widget is a continuous, circular navigation of a collection of items (divs or images). In this blog, I am going to talk about a carousel portlet that was...
by XTIVIA | Feb 3, 2012 | Blog, Portals
More and more of our customers are looking at creating Liferay based portal sites that adapt themselves to different form factor devices ranging from traditional desktop and notebook browsers to tablets to smart phones. Rather than creating separate traditional and...
by Jon Ilko | Jan 31, 2012 | Blog, Portals
So if you are not familiar with AlloyUI, it is a user interface web application framework. It’s purpose is to help make building and designing web applications an enjoyable experience. For more information on AlloyUI you can see Nate Cavanaugh’s blog. Some...
by XTIVIA | Jan 30, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
During my last project, we used javascript “lightbox”-style modal overlays to display and submit forms without changing the current page. The AUI Dialog object is useful for this purpose. In this example, we’ll display a simple form containing one...
by XTIVIA | Aug 31, 2011 | Blog, Portals
When you write your blog entry, you usually don’t think about things like colons (:). It turns out that Liferay at least as of 6.0 SP1 has issues with colons in blog entry titles, which is especially noticeable in the RSS feeds. How to fix these? Thanks to Open...
by Keith O'Connell | Aug 18, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
One of the primary motivations for setting up Liferay in a cluster is to provide high availability in the event of an application server crash. In this post, I will run through the process of configuring Tomcat to provide basic session replication, which is a critical...
