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Pros and Cons – When to use a Portal and Portlets instead of just Java Web-Frameworks

I had to answer the following question: Shall we use a Portal and if yes, should it be Liferay Portal or Oracle Portal? Or shall we use just one or more Java web frameworks? This article shows my result. I had to look especially at Liferay and Oracle...

4 replies - 4038 views - 10/13/11 by Kai Wähner in Articles

Daily Dose - Red Hat Acquires Makara

With their Apache-licensed DeltaCloud project and now with today's acquisition of a Cloud tech startup called Makara, RedHat is building a broad foundation for its position in the PaaS sphere.  I wrote about the emergence of Makara early this year and I was...

0 replies - 17554 views - 12/01/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Portlets in Action - Book Review

Portal standard has been around since 2003. A lot of proprietary portal servers, portal developers, and architects have been around for a while. One thing lacking in this field is quality books that...

4 replies - 5146 views - 09/14/10 by Shagul Khajamohideen in Book Reviews

Liferay Debuts Portal 6EE with New UI Tools, Analytics, and Extensibility

Two months ago, the open core portal company, Liferay, unveiled a new UI meta-framework called Alloy UI along with a migration program and several other services.  Today's release of Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition contains enhanced social collaboration...

0 replies - 6336 views - 09/08/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Liferay Builds New Standard UI Framework

The Portal wars continue today as Liferay releases a new UI framework and a migration program for users of competing platforms such as Jive or eXo platform.  Liferay has also added a collaborative web-casting site.  Tomorrow Liferay will be announcing...

0 replies - 7867 views - 06/08/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Extlet Plugin for the Liferay Portal Goes Open Source

IBA CZ is happy to announce the public availability of the Extlet plugin for the Liferay Portal. Extlet plugin brings the power of Liferay Ext Development environment and flexibility & simplicity of a plugin architecture. It is more modular than the...

0 replies - 1262 views - 06/07/10 by Stanislav Filipcik in Announcements

How-Tos for implementation of Open Source Portal and ECM Projects

It is always a big challenge when you want to extend your current web presence and manageability of your content produced by your existing legacy applications. There are a variety of different implementations on how to achieve this goal. In this post I will...

3 replies - 8956 views - 05/26/10 by Ali Loghmani in Articles

Q&A with Ashish Sarin: Portlets in Action

Ashish Sarin is the author of Portlets in Action, published by Manning Publications. Ashish has over 10 years of experience designing and developing web applications and portals using Java EE and the Portlets APIs. DZone got a chance to catch up with him...

0 replies - 5849 views - 05/12/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles

JBoss Portal Server Development Book Review

In the first chapter, JBoss Portal Server Development provides a good overview about all portal types (B2B,B2C,B2E), and then continues to introduce all the components needed to understand all...

0 replies - 11429 views - 04/21/09 by Piergiorgio Lucidi in Book Reviews

OpenXava 3.1: AJAX Application from JPA Entities

OpenXava 3.1 is a framework to develop Java Enterprise applications in a different way: OpenXava avoids MVC. You provide only your POJOs annotated with JPA and you obtain an application ready for production.

1 replies - 2729 views - 12/19/08 by Javier Paniza in Announcements

Filthy Rich Portlets with ICEfaces and Liferay

When a portlet form is submitted, all the other portlets on the same portal page are forced to redraw themselves. In this presentation, filmed at the...

2 replies - 31330 views - 10/28/08 by Neil Griffin in Videos

OpenXava 3.0.3: JPA Application Engine

OpenXava is a JPA Application Engine. You put in your JPA classes and, in exchange, you obtain a full-featured application ready for production, and without code generation. A new version, OpenXava 3.0.3, has been just released.What's new in 3.0.3?

0 replies - 4026 views - 08/19/08 by Javier Paniza in Announcements

OpenXava 3.0.2: JPA Application Engine

OpenXava is a JPA Application Engine. You put in your JPA classes and, in exchange, you obtain a full-featured application ready for production, and without code generation. A new version, OpenXava 3.0.2, was released this week.What's new in 3.0.2?

0 replies - 3249 views - 06/05/08 by Javier Paniza in Announcements