by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Portals
A requirement that is often found in enterprise IT environments is the need for “dashboards” that provide integrated, highly visual (e.g., chart-driven) representations of key data to executives, analysts and key decision makers. In addition to the data...
by Michael Hahn | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Adding custom mobile device rule handlers in Liferay 6.1 enhances mobile support and customization. This guide walks you through creating a custom rule handler, starting with setting up a liferay-hook.xml file and configuring the portal properties. By following these...
by XTIVIA | May 3, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Liferay has a robust service-layer API for developers to use. However, sometimes there are cases when you need to use methods in the internal Liferay API. You can’t use the internal API directly, but you can invoke it indirectly with the PortalClassInvoker...
by XTIVIA | Apr 13, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
So you have Liferay running merrily up on Amazon’s AWS, things are going well, and you decide you wish to add a new feature, such as perhaps the WSRP portlet. (Because this is a Liferay supported portlet, available from the trusted repository, is known to deploy...
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 XTIVIA | Mar 28, 2012 | Blog, Portals
So you’ve developed a portlet, perhaps using the latest displaytags taglib, version 1.2. You have your portlet project being built via Maven, and you are deploying locally on the Liferay EE 6.1 Tomcat bundle. Life is good, all goes smoothly, and you are excited...
by Vivek Agarwal | Feb 13, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Perspectives, Portals
At XTIVIA, we have extensive experience delivering enterprise portal, content management, and collaboration solutions since the late 1990s, and have seen this product space mature and evolve over the years. We started with traditional commercial software from the...
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 XTIVIA | Feb 5, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Most of us would have seen the carousel on Liferay’s home page (http://www.liferay.com/). The Carousel widget is a continuous, circular navigation of a collection of items (divs or images). In this blog, I am going to talk about a carousel portlet that was...
