by XTIVIA | Aug 5, 2015 | Applications, Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure
On my third day at XTIVIA, it was recommended I tinker with Oracle’s free VirtualBox. The following week, I was hooked! A Unix guy at heart, I can launch whichever flavor of Linux desktop I’m in the mood for, while Windows keeps running and all the tools...
by XTIVIA | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
MySQL creates a default configuration file named my.cnf (or my.ini in Windows), that can be edited to include and fine tune the startup options to meet the needs of your environment. This is often more convenient than entering these values every time you start the...
by Matt Wolinski | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog, Portals
You may not be aware yet, but there’s a new liferay feature called Portlet Sandboxing. You can find the “Portlet Sandbox EE” plugin in the Liferay Marketplace. This feature was designed to isolate portlets applications from liferay and...
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 | Apr 3, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
We are seeing significant interest from our Portal clients in enabling Single Sign-On (SSO) not only within their enterprise, but also with their customers and partners. In some cases, this need is becoming an expectation of our clients’ customers – in...
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 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 Derek Nerenberg | Apr 19, 2011 | Blog, Portals
This is a multi-part series of how to integrate Liferay v6.x with an existing Active Directory server at your organization. It’s a fairly simple process if you know what to enter into the various fields, but one key thing that doesn’t come through on...