by Keith O'Connell | Aug 17, 2011 | Blog, Portals
Recently, I was asked by a client to help them set up a couple of SSL certificates on two IBM HTTP Server (IHS) environments; one for QA, and one for development. It’d been a while since I worked with SSL certificates, but from what I recalled, it’s...
by Keith O'Connell | Aug 11, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Creating Portlets for Integration With Salesforce.com Part 2: Making Calls Against the Web Service Integration with the Salesforce.com API is a feature that is highly desirable for any organization which uses that platform to track opportunities in the sales pipeline;...
by Keith O'Connell | Aug 8, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Creating Portlets for Integration With Salesforce.com Part 1: Consuming the Force.com Enterprise WSDL Integration with the Salesforce.com API is a feature that is highly desirable for any organization which uses that platform to track opportunities in the sales...
by XTIVIA | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Portals
While enhancing our blogs portlet functionality, I came across what appeared to be a few interesting oversights while editing blogs. While editing and publishing (or submitting for publication) a blog entry worked entirely as expected, if one selected the “Save as...
by Keith O'Connell | May 12, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Recently, I was asked by a client to investigate how they might configure a Liferay Portal version 6 instance to completely eliminate caching of a few specific entities; in particular, the User and Group entities. On the surface, this sounds like a...
by Derek Nerenberg | May 1, 2011 | Blog, Portals
I’ve been running into several issues lately doing a WebSphere Portal v6.0.1.1 migration to WebSphere Portal v6.1 on the same server. This should be a relatively straightforward process as far as WebSphere Portal migrations go, but we’ve run into...
by XTIVIA | Apr 27, 2011 | Blog, Portals
In this blog entry I provide an introduction on how you can start to leverage a business rules engine in your portal implementation. Liferay Enterprise Edition 6 comes with a drools web portlet that allows you to use the Drools rule engine with minimal effort, and...
by Derek Nerenberg | Apr 26, 2011 | Blog, Portals
I recently came across a situation where the requirement was to create some navigation in a theme that spans communities. This is something that you would normally want to just hardcode in the links and move on to the next task. This scenario was different...
by XTIVIA | Apr 23, 2011 | Blog, Portals
We developed a data driven application within Liferay 6.0 for a client recently utilizing JPA, and everything was running quite smoothly. So smoothly, that the client wanted to template the application for a second tenant, with the potential for additional tenants....
by Vivek Agarwal | Apr 20, 2011 | Blog, Portals
A fairly common gotcha with integrating flash videos/tutorials into Liferay, is that even though a user is actively viewing and interacting with the flash component, this does not end up extending the user’s Liferay session. As a result, if the user spends...
