{"id":95,"date":"2011-10-27T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/?p=95"},"modified":"2011-10-27T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:24:21","slug":"life-with-liferay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Life with Liferay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer is long gone and fall is fading fast, so what happened to me?\u00a0 Been deep into a project (pro bono, alas) using LifeRay portal.\u00a0 LifeRay\u00a0 <\/a>is an Open Source Portal which is pretty cool. The Open Source version has a long way to go in some areas (documentation would be a good starting place) but some of the functionality out of the box is great (some needs work).<\/p>\n

My application is a servlet and wrapping a servlet in a portlet, sharing data between them, was not s trivial task.\u00a0 I had a long learning curve and was heading into a deep technical dive on the framework when an epiphany rescued me from heading down a technical rabbit hole.\u00a0 I simply wrapped the servlet in an iframe and constructed the URL for the iframe using jQuery and portlet\u00a0 parameters from within the hosting jsp.\u00a0 LifeRay *has* a portlet iFrame but it has the same limitations as the html iframe: Moving data between the portlet and the html\/app within the iframe is near impossible to do without getting pretty hacky….<\/p>\n

I was able to get the hacky solution to work OK, although I wished I could handle things a little more elegantly.\u00a0 I also wanted to host a message board (aka forum) but I had nothing but trouble getting the email functionality to work.\u00a0 In fact I am still dead in the water on the emails sent to the board reaching the forum posts.<\/p>\n

The support at the LifeRay forum is so-so.\u00a0 Too many dead ends on posts of similar problems and many, many similar problems exist without resolution.\u00a0 If I were the LifeRay team I’d handle the posts that are most frequent with either a solution or an intelligible FAQ in the Wiki.\u00a0 As it is, I still have posts that were never completely resolved.<\/p>\n

I’ll probably continue to use LifeRay because 1. This pro bono project requires it and 2. It seems to be the best Open Source portal solution I can find.\u00a0 I am not completely satisfied, but hopefully one day you’ll be reading this blog from within LifeRay and all will be well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer is long gone and fall is fading fast, so what happened to me?\u00a0 Been deep into a project (pro bono, alas) using LifeRay portal.\u00a0 LifeRay\u00a0 is an Open Source Portal which is pretty cool. The Open Source version has … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}