Blogs

This article describes a simple way to integrate PayPal "Buy-now" button into a Liferay Portal application. It is called "Instant Payment Notification ("IPN")" integration in PayPal. In this way of integration, a form is embedde...

Alfresco is a highly scalable content management system where you can store millions of documents and perform many workflow tasks.  Alfresco provides a basic dashboard to list and track the tasks.  You can also configure Alfresc...

Liferay is widely used Open Source portal with wide variety of features.  It manages content of various kind ex. Blogs , Wiki , User Information , Documents etc. In such case searching becomes one of the key aspect, by default l...

Distributed system involves N number of computers connected to each other via any communication medium (LAN/MAN/WAN) and they communicate by passing messages on the communication medium. In DCS, all the computers share their own...

Background In today’s rapid changing world, power of communication increased day by day and geographical barrier in terms of technology has been reduced significantly. In the context of Portal , it makes lot of sense , as collab...

Recently CIGNEX has successfully rolled out an enterprise level CMS solution for a major insurance company in USA.  CIGNEX integrated Drupal front-end and Alfresco back-end to create a high-performance, low-cost, flexible and sc...

Alfresco CMS uses "Lucene" as seach engine behind the scenes. Most of the customers set up search engine either in AUTO or FULL indexing mode. Use Case We have a client with 1.2 Tera Bytes of content store, and the FULL inde...

Introduction Recently we were involved in migration project for one of the top 20 fastest growing County Government of United States. The County had been using the Broadvision portal and content management system for its primary...

ZK is an Open Source Ajax + Mobile frame work available,designed to maximize an enterprise’s operational efficiency and minimize development time and cost. Ajax suppott makes this framework very powerful. It provides really cool...

Alfresco speaks about their latest Enterprise release in a session hosted by CIGNEX at Holiday Inn (1740 North First Street, San Jose CA 95112). This session is a must for CIOs, Senior IT Managers, Enterprise Architects and anyo...

When you extend or customize Liferay Portal, usually you end up using the default Liferay database. Some clients require that their data be stored in a database other than Liferay database when they customize the Portal applicat...

Steps to Configure Alfresco FSR as Windows Service using Java Service Wrapper Download Java Service Wrapper (http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/introduction.html) from following URL.http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.or...

  Context  “Bringing” users from an external Active Directory server or any other directory server supporting LDAP for that matter is a common requirement of almost all portal solutions. That’s the exact reason Liferay has add...

This article is for developers who are more touch with HTML and CSS and generally working with table less layout. Due to the nature of the browser many developers faces problems to design the HTML and CSS. For example suppose ...

Freedom to deploy the content you want with Alfresco WCM Alfresco WCM has the concept called ASR deployment, which allows you to deploy a snap shot of your source server to configured destination server/s. For some scenarios the...

What is Cache and Why is it required?   Wiktionary defines a cache as a store of things that will be required in future, and can be retrieved rapidly. That is the nub of it. Cache is a temporary data which duplication of s...

I am lucky enough to get a chance to implement DRM for continuously two projects in CIGNEX.  One for music portal for a Singapore based Telecommunication Company and another one is for US based Paramount Pictures!!  It was a nic...

We're sorry we missed you at our Liferay LIVE session: "Liferay for Sun Portal Customers" For your convenience a recording of the session is available here under past webinars. This session was aimed at helping customers of Su...