‘Liferay’ posts
Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Posted by Optaros on 21 Dec 2008
2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the | View post »
Open Source Business Intelligence with JasperReports – a major component in our assembled solutions
Posted by Optaros on 24 Oct 2008
In recent engagements, at State of Vaud and City of Lausanne, Optaros has successfully assembled JasperReports, to the overall solution delivered to the Customers, as main component for providing high performance and business oriented reporting. JasperReports, an open source business intelligence solution, provides a mature reporting engine, fast to implement and with many extension capabilities. | View post »
Running Alfresco web scripts as Liferay portlets
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 09 Apr 2008
I’ve seen a lot of Liferay and Alfresco forum posts from people having trouble getting Alfresco running within a Liferay portal. Once that’s done, people usually want to invoke Alfresco web scripts as portlets without requiring a separate single sign-on (SSO) infrastructure. Some people have pointed to the Alfresco wiki (Deploying 2.1 WAR Liferay 4.3). | View post »
Upgrading Liferay
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 07 Jan 2008
The great part about using a solution such as Liferay is that not only is it open source but there is a company dedicated to supporting the software. This means that during the time of our deployment Liferay made significant improvements to the software and released additional functionality. We upgraded the software at Endeca and | View post »
Liferay and Endeca
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 03 Jan 2008
Part of the assembly solution we created for Endeca was the Liferay Portal Framework. The assembly of this component was integral in that it provided the following: • A forum portlet with subscription and user management down to the thread level. • Robust user management • LDAP integration • AJAX based UI for improved user | View post »
Endeca: Under the covers
Posted by Optaros on 11 Dec 2007
The Endeca Partner Community solution ("EDeN") was assembled from content management, portal, blog, and search components. Specifically, Alfresco, Liferay, WordPress, and Endeca's Information Access Platform. Let's look at the responsibilities of each of these components and then a bit about how they integrate. Content Management — Alfresco The Alfresco repository holds all file-based content that | View post »
The Endeca Assembly Experience
Posted by Jim Munz on 08 Nov 2007
The Endeca Developer Network (EDeN) was achieved through the Solution Assembly process (OptAM) and I have been asked why is this different than traditional software integration by colleagues of mine within the industry. The EDeN experience I feel highlights this perfectly. We went from requirements to a Beta release in just 12 weeks. In this | View post »


