Archive for August, 2008

LoginAction vs. Login Portlet

August 25, 2008

Liferay comes packaged with two login mechanisms: the login action in portal.impl’s com.liferay.portal.action.LoginAction and the login portlet in com.liferay.portlet.login. You should extend the portlet if you want to customize your own login portlet.You can extend the portal login using the new Liferay Hooks feature or the extension environment.

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Conflicting Jar Files

August 24, 2008

One thing I discovered while developing the sample Spring portlet: jar file conflicts between the plugin portlet and Liferay are a big headache. If Liferay has a version different from the one in your plugin, expect some very strange, confusing exception errors. Its Best to just make sure you only include the jars you need [...]

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Hello Spring Portlet

August 22, 2008

I’ve placed a simple, Hello World type Spring portlet in the downloads section. Check it out. It uses the Spring ParameterizableViewController to forward to the view JSP.

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