by XTIVIA | Sep 25, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
This posting helps you with the process of migrating Liferay ServiceBuilder projects from SDK to Maven. Migrating Liferay plugin projects from the Liferay SDK to Maven is normally a straight-forward process. ServiceBuilder plugins, however, are structured differently...
by XTIVIA | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Ant-based development used in the Liferay SDK fell out of favor with developers a long time ago; modern build tools such as Maven are now all the rage. Although it took Liferay a while to update the tool chain, Maven is now a supported Liferay build tool....
by XTIVIA | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
Many times an incorrect process is used to set up the production application server for Liferay: Download a Liferay bundle. Expand on the server. Start up and go. We cannot emphasize how wrong, wrong, wrong this is. Best practices for a production Liferay setup...
by XTIVIA | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
The liferay-plugin-package.properties file is used to list dependencies from the portal’s jars. At deployment time, Liferay will copy the listed jars from the portal’s WEB-INF/lib directory to the artifact’s WEB-INF/lib directory. Defining...
by Asier Del Pozo | Aug 31, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Once upon a time… Sometimes a new project becomes a challenge. That’s the interesting part of software development; otherwise, this job would not be as special as it is! And the reason could not only be the technology you have to use, or the specific...
by Asier Del Pozo | Aug 28, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
For those of you that do not know what Okta is, an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location such as a weather station. Isn’t that cool? I didn’t know that there was a unit of measurement for that!...
by XTIVIA | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog, Portals
The basic process of Liferay 6.2 Theme development involves creating a new theme, make changes to it, and deploy. It’s really a simple process; however. the only drawback to this process is that every time you make any changes to a theme, you will need to deploy it to...
by Derek Nerenberg | Jul 31, 2015 | Blog, Databases, Portals
This post shows you how to query Liferay’s database and see which Documents and Media files are marked ‘searchable’. For these examples, I was using SQL Server and did not validate the queries work on other databases. They are...
by XTIVIA | May 29, 2015 | Applications, Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
AngularJS is a great framework for Single Page Applications (SPAs) – it’s easy to learn and use. There’s no reason not to (and actually every reason to) create your Liferay portlets as AngularJS SPAs. Our organization considers...
by XTIVIA | May 12, 2015 | Applications, Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
This blog post explains using HTTP to remotely get and add documents to Liferay’s Document and Media Library. Since documents may require authentication for access, this post explains how to use basic authentication to achieve that. It will also cover accessing...
