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 successfully, and was the troublemaker that inspired this post) After going through the GUI, you notice that your deployment...
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My adventure with the displaytags library continues (see slf4j on JBoss 7 and Portlet CSS support with displaytags ) Since I'm using AJAX to load various views and subviews in my portlet via ResourceURLs (a JSR-286 function), I wound up rendering a page utilizing displaytags via a ResourceRequest and receiving a java.lang.ClassCastException for my troubles. A brief bit of research...
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My fun with the displaytags library continues from my previous challenge of JBoss 7 support . Today it's related to styling, specifically honoring the portlet styling provided by the theme. To get the full benefits of the displaytag library inside of Liferay, you must setup your project with a few extra configuration steps. First, the displaytags-portlet must be included in your build....
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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 Source, you can fix them yourself pretty easily. This fix requires an EXT environment as you will be overriding 2 core Liferay...
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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; as a proof of concept, we recently went through the process of developing several portlets for deployment on Liferay...
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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 pipeline; as a proof of concept, we recently went through the process of developing several portlets for deployment on...
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