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Using jQuery with Liferay, Part 1

Published on August 3, 2009 By Jeff Robinson

This week I’ll start with another very interesting look at using the extremely powerful jQuery library within Liferay portlets. Many new users to Liferay are unaware of these core features so I thought I would start out with introducing four of them – Fade Out, Slide up, Hide and Slide Down . The video below [...]

Hello Struts2 Portlet

Published on July 9, 2009 By Jeff Robinson

I’ve just completed a sample portlet using the new Struts 2 framework. Struts 2 is a really elegant, comprehensive framework that is much easier to use than Struts 1.x. What’s more is that Struts 2 works hand-in-hand with Spring so there’s a lot support built-in for it. This sample portlet demonstrates using the new Struts [...]

New: World Time Clock

Published on January 6, 2009 By Jeff Robinson

The World Time Clock portlet is now in the downloads sections.  It extends javax.portlet.GenericPortlet to display a digital clock using javascript within a Java Server Page.   This is a simple portlet that demonstrates that frameworks are not necessarily needed if all you require is a simple View presented in the portlet window.