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...
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...
