liferay

How is the Tomcat temp directory location defined?

I am running Tomcat bundled with Liferay5.2.3 and use Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) as my IDE. I set up my Tomcat server in Eclipse as per this blog entry: http://www.jroller.com/holy/entry/developing_portlets_for_liferay_in. If I start Tomcat via the Eclipse server config, Liferay/Tomcat uses my C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\T...

Avoid portlet refresh on page refresh. expiration-cache exception expiration-cache portet

Hello Experts, I am facing this issue with expiration-cache in my portlet (jsr 286 - Spring MVC). The configuration in my portlet.xml is 300 My portlet is also a Producer portlet in a Inter portlet communication scenario. I am trying to use expiration-cache in order to stop this portlet rendering when there is change on some other portle...

Problems deploying Liferay 5.2.3 in jboss 5.0.0

Hi there, I´ve been trying for the last month to get this working, still with no success, hope someone out there can help me. At this point, the environment used is: java version "1.5.0_16" Java(TM) Platform, Standard Edition for Business (build 1.5.0_16-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.5.0_16-b02, mixed mode) Jboss 5.0.0.GA ...

Any PHP or Python alternatives for Liferay and Alfresco ?

Hello, My company wants to use Liferay for developing a portal and integrate Alfresco with it for document management. But both Liferay and Alfresco are Java based and i would like to know if there are any alternatives to Liferay and Alfresco in PHP or Python. Thank You ...

Where do i change/modify the roles for the users in order to access the portlets manually ? not in the configuration of the portlet .

Where do i change/modify the roles for the users in order to access the portlets manually ? not in the configuration of the portlet of Liferay.from the homepage of the liferay server ...

What does seem target in ANT

Hello I am completly new to eclipse, liferay and ANT. I tried to set up a development environment and just finished the ext-anvironment (I also executed ant clean start). Now I've to execute "ant build-ext", following this tutorial: http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Setting%20up%20the%20Extension%20Environment ...

A lightweight alternative to portal container like Liferay

Has somebody found a lightweight alternative to portal containers like liferay? One that pushes features like quick startup times, not limiting the developer, and flexible configuration? ...

Liferay - Custom Authentication Web Service

Hi, I want to use authentication web services that is exposed by my legacy client. But I cannot copy those user information in to liferay database. Can any one help me to write a custom authentication service OR a hook/plugin to reuse my own implementation for authentication? Regards Vishal G Pillai ...

Liferay - Authentication without populating liferay db

Hi, Again, Do we have any possible solution that avoid populating liferay db with user information for authentication using extending methods/custom implementation/hooks/plugins/extensions? Regards Vishal G ...

Hibernate Initial SessionFactory creation failed

I'm trying to use hibernate to fill my jsf selectonemenu in ApplicationBean (in Liferay). The problem is that I got Initial SessionFactory creation failed problem. Before putting my functions in the applicationbean I was setting them in sessionbean and I got no error. For now the full error Initial SessionFactory creation failed. ja...

Liferay: Using the roles configured in an external application

Hi, Whether liferay can use the roles/permissions that is configured outside liferay? The reason behind is that the legacy application have its own mechanism for user and role configuration. Can any one please help me on this? Regards Vishal G ...

Liferay : Programatically adding portlets

Hi, Is it possible to add a portlet programatically? If yes, please help me to understand the steps for that Regards Vishal G ...

Spring-json problem in Liferay with Spring 2.5

Hi all, I am trying to use the library spring-json.1.3.1 in a project that has been done with Liferay 5.1.2 which includes Spring 2.5. Following the project website instructions, I managed to make the request hit in my controller, but at the moment of returning the json object back through the modelAndView object it fails with the foll...

Trigger a logout from a liferay portlet

Hello all, Being quite new to liferay/portal/portlet development you run into problems daily . Now i'm trying to for a logout from a portlet but have not found a way to accomplish that. How are you supposed to do that? Should I try to send some kind of logout event or something? Greping around in the liferay sources i have found a Logou...

Liferay - Custom Authentication Web Service. Do not need user info in liferay db

Hi, I have followed http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3035932/liferay-custom-authentication-web-service link to customize authentication. But Liferay is still checking whether the same user email id is configured in the liferay db or not. If its not, it is saying that authetication failed. I do not want to keep any user information ...

Liferay - Layout for each pages

In Liferay, can we apply layout template for each page at runtime? Regards Vishal G ...

Liferay : Portlets inside portlet

Hi, Is it possible to create few portlets inside a portlet? I mean a multilevel portlet Regards Vishal G ...

Liferay : Page template inside a portlet war

Hi, Can we include a new layout template inside a portlet war? And I want that template to be used for a particular page. Regards Vishal G ...

Writing Portlets for LifeRay CMS/Portal

Hi, I am new to portlets and have a question about how they work in CMS portals ( we are evaluating LifeRay as a CMS ). Let's say, for example, I would like to create a portlet to display all the books required for a particular course. You don't have to be logged in to see this, it will appear on public website. In the CMS, I will cre...

Can LifeRay portlets get parameters?

I am having trouble understanding the concept of portlets in a CMS. Let's say I write a weather portlet to display current temperature. I build it, package it in a war, deploy the war in LifeRay. Now I created a page, and I want to create 2 instances of the portlet I wrote. I want to display the weather in Seattle and the weather in ...