Learning Liferay: 2013

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Useful Liferay Links

Overriding and adding struts actions from hook plugins
http://www.liferay.com/web/mika.koivisto/blog/-/blogs/7132115

Liferay 6.1 Features
http://www.liferay.com/web/james.falkner/blog/-/blogs/11927282

Liferay Versioning explained
http://www.liferay.com/web/jorge.ferrer/blog/-/blogs/explaining-the-new-versioning-scheme-for-liferay-6

Liferay known vulnerabilities
http://www.liferay.com/community/security-team/known-vulnerabilities

Thursday, May 23, 2013

How to - Manually remove/delete ext env from liferay

Whenever you want to undeploy ext env from liferay, please delete below files and folders. These steps are applicable to any liferay version after 6.0

On Windows
Add below commands to a batch file and run it.
@echo off
set app_name=%1
if "%app_name%" == "" goto end
set tomcat_home=C:\apps\liferay-portal-6.0-ee\tomcat-6.0.29

rmdir /S /Q %tomcat_home%\temp
rmdir /S /Q %tomcat_home%\webapps\%app_name%-ext
rmdir /S /Q %tomcat_home%\webapps\ROOT\html\portlet\ext
del /S /Q %tomcat_home%\lib\ext\ext-%app_name%-ext-service.jar
del /S /Q %tomcat_home%\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\ext-%app_name%-ext-util-bridges.jar
del /S /Q %tomcat_home%\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\ext-%app_name%-ext-util-taglib.jar
del /S /Q %tomcat_home%\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\ext-%app_name%-ext-util-java.jar
del /S /Q %tomcat_home%\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\ext-%app_name%-ext-impl.jar
del /S /Q %tomcat_home%\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\ext-%app_name%-ext.xml
del /S /Q %tomcat_home%\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\tiles-defs-ext.xml
del /S /Q %tomcat_home%\temp\liferay\com\liferay\portal\deploy\dependencies\ext-%app_name%-ext-util-bridges.jar
del /S /Q %tomcat_home%\temp\liferay\com\liferay\portal\deploy\dependencies\ext-%app_name%-ext-util-taglib.jar
del /S /Q %tomcat_home%\temp\liferay\com\liferay\portal\deploy\dependencies\ext-%app_name%-ext-util-java.jar
:end

On Linux/Unix
Add below commands to shell script and run it.

#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: clean-my-ext [ext-name]"
exit 1
fi

tomcat_home="/local/mnt/apps/liferay/tomcat-6.0.29"
app_name="$1"

rm -rf $tomcat_home/temp
rm -rf $tomcat_home/webapps/$app_name-ext
rm -rf $tomcat_home/webapps/ROOT/html/portlet/ext
rm -f $tomcat_home/lib/ext/ext-$app_name-ext-service.jar
rm -f $tomcat_home/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/ext-$app_name-ext-util-bridges.jar
rm -f $tomcat_home/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/ext-$app_name-ext-util-taglib.jar
rm -f $tomcat_home/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/ext-$app_name-ext-util-java.jar
rm -f $tomcat_home/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/ext-$app_name-ext-impl.jar
rm -f $tomcat_home/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/ext-$app_name-ext.xml
rm -f $tomcat_home/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/tiles-defs-ext.xml
rm -f $tomcat_home/temp/liferay/com/liferay/portal/deploy/dependencies/ext-$app_name-ext-util-bridges.jar
rm -f $tomcat_home/temp/liferay/com/liferay/portal/deploy/dependencies/ext-$app_name-ext-util-taglib.jar
rm -f $tomcat_home/temp/liferay/com/liferay/portal/deploy/dependencies/ext-$app_name-ext-util-java.jar

JSR 168 vs JSR 286

Features	JSR 168 Specification	JSR 286 Specification
Inter Portlet Communication	Only supported within the same portlet application using session attributes Target portlets will only "see" messages during next render request.	Add additional coordination capabilities Limited only to String Values. Sharing of session data beyond the current Portlet application. Sharing of render parameters across portlets.
Life cycle	Portlets cannot update their state during a render request: "event" handling not really possible	New 3rd life cycle phase before rendering
Portlet Filters	Doesn't Support	Supports Allow on the fly transformations of information in both the request to and the response from the portlet Defined in portlet.xml
Caching		Extended Cache support. Allow public cached content for multiple users
Common Web Frameworks	Servlet dispatching not supported from process Action. Needs Portals Bridges or similar solutions. JSTL support very limited	Extended Cache support. Allow public cached content for multiple users. Improved support for web frameworks (Struts, JSF, Spring) Allow servlet dispatching during all lifecycle calls: processAction, processEvent, render, serverResource. Extended JSP tag library <defineObjects/>, support for JSF
Non HTML Resources(pdf, doc, images etc.)	A portlet can only render html fragments. Have to fallback/delegate to the servlet container. Requires coordination between portlet and servlet.