Question: Now that we are rolling out a Service desk customer portal, can we prevent everyone from creating issues using the Create button on the back end?

Introduction

This blog will cover at a minimum what you need to do for a simple form-based Single Sign On (SSO) in the context of a portlet, though parts of it could be applicable for any application. This scenario will[...]

By Robert Hall

Unit testing has long been considered a critical part of the development cycle for Java developers, especially those practicing test-driven development or Agile methodologies. This should be no different[...]

By Robert Hall

In the process of developing portals with Liferay, it is often necessary to set up and tear down servers with a Liferay instance on them.   There are many ways of accomplishing this, such as using VMs,[...]

The larger the enterprise, the more technology and systems exist. They all grew from well-meaning development teams aggressively trying to solve business problems, generally the reason we IT groups exist. The problem is[...]

In a portal developer's perfect world, or any web developer's for that matter, a browser wouldn't have a back button.  But we know this is not the world we live in and, in fact, users LOVE their back button.[...]

HOW TO PASS OBJECTS FROM ACTION TO RENDER LIFECYCLES

Hello and welcome to another short portlet lesson. This one is aimed at beginning portlet developers! I will concentrate on one of the basics of portlet development:[...]

WANT MVC?

Are you still using plain vanilla portlets and want to catch up with the rest of the modern web development world? Then it's time to move on to using a Model-View-Controller framework. SpringMVC is one of the[...]

SIMPLIFYING PORTLETS

As a consultant asked to maintain and expand portal applications, one of the problems I run across is "portlet bloat." That is, a single portlet solves all the problems of an application on its own[...]