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...
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 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...
