Liferay clustering internals

Ever wondered how Liferay's internal clustering works? I had to dig into it in context of my other article on globally load balancing Liferay across separate data-centers. This blog post merely serves as a place for my research notes and might be helpful for someone else who is trying to follow what is going on …

Clustering Liferay globally across data centers (GSLB) with JGroups and RELAY2

Recently I've have been looking into options to solve the problem of GSLB'ing (global server load balancing) a Liferay Portal instance. This article is a work in progress... and a long one. Jan Eerdekens states it correctly in his article, "Configuring a Liferay cluster is part experience and part black magic" .... however doing it …

Book Review: Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development

This is a book review of Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development by Jonas X. Yuan. Having no previous experience with this platform, I bought this book to try to get an overview of Liferay. The book starts out by giving an overview of Liferay and an overview of JSR-286. The bulk of the book (90%) …