by XTIVIA | Sep 3, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
This question comes up a lot. I think it’s important to understand the primary features and functions of what each does. Portals arrived in the the late 1990’s with Yahoo.com and Excite.com. They are a way of personalizing and aggregating...
by Vivek Agarwal | Sep 1, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Perspectives, Portals
These are exciting times in our Enterprise Portal practice – we are implementing challenging projects for some of the most recognizable names in Corporate America, growing our top-notch team, and solving interesting technical problems. All of this translates to being...
by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Liferay has extensive web content management capabilities. It can easily scale to present millions of pieces of content via the web. But, how do your users find what they want? Enterprise search can be a mystery to the uninitiated. Often it becomes a...
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 Chetan Chadalavada | Mar 1, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
For a navigation menu with longer sub menu navigation items, multi column menu navigation layout is the latest design trend which provides a solution for better usability and space management. It’s even nicer to have an image that can be part of the navigation....
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 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 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;...
