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Why Portals are not dead

Portals are not dead, but they were supposed to be. What happened? In early 2000, architects and technologists believed portals were to become the single UI interface for all web applications built by an enterprise. But five years later, most developers...

5 replies - 4162 views - 10/21/11 by Paul Hinz in Articles

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

How-To Mavenize Liferay Plugins SDK's Ant build.xml

OverviewWhen working with Liferay projects using Liferay IDE and Plugins SDK it becomes highly difficult to manage dependencies, as Liferay IDE or Plugins SDK by default uses Ant for buildin

0 replies - 1458 views - 08/15/11 by Kamesh Sampath in Announcements

Daily Dose: Microsoft Buys Skype for a Cool $8.5 Billion

After several weeks of rumors, Microsoft has officially announced their plan to acquire Skype. The $8.5 billion dollar buy is the largest Microsoft has undertaken to date. If the rumor mill is to be believed, Microsoft could be planning on integrating Skype...

0 replies - 14208 views - 05/10/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Free "Liferay in Action" Ebook Giveaway!

Good news everyone!  Manning publications has gracously donated 10 "Liferay in Action" ebooks to DZone and we're giving them away in conjunction with the release of this week's refcard: "Liferay Essentials: A Definitive Guide for Enterprise...

19 replies - 19817 views - 12/06/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

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

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

Daily Dose - Simon Phipps Elected to OSI Board of Directors

Just a few days after leaving Oracle, Simon Phipps, who served as the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun for nearly ten years, has been elected to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors.  Phipps intends to help the organization become more active...

0 replies - 15100 views - 03/12/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

EmForge Portal Beta

Today I'm happy to announce EmForge Portal Beta Release! Starting from today it is allowed to any registered users to host own projects on EmForge.net. As project hosting service we provide wide set of tools: Task Management; Time...

0 replies - 1035 views - 02/01/10 by Marek Kwiecien in Announcements

OpenXava 4m1: AJAX Java Framework

OpenXava is a framework to develop AJAX Java Enterprise/J2EE applications rapidly and easily. Allows you to define applications just with POJOs, JPA and Java annotations. Feature rich and flexible since it's used for years to create business applications...

0 replies - 1574 views - 11/26/09 by Javier Paniza in Announcements

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/12

Ken Auletta, the author of "Google: The End of The World As We Know It",  recently revealed that Google was interested in buying the New York Times.  Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt told Auletta that they had discussed the...

0 replies - 10338 views - 11/12/09 by Lyndsey Clevesy in News

OpenXava 3.1.4: Rapid Java Development

OpenXava 3.1.4 is a framework to develop Java Enterprise applications in a different way: You provide only your POJOs annotated with JPA and you obtain an application ready for production.

0 replies - 1713 views - 08/31/09 by Javier Paniza in Announcements