It's finally here! OpenSocial gadgets is the next great topic now residing in Liferay's Development Guide. Gadgets are similar to portlets because they can be added to your portal's pages and used for all kinds of tasks. Also known as social applications, gadgets share data within well defined networks, facilitating communication of information between groups of users. Furthermore, gadgets are characterized as being simple, widely available, and easy to deploy.

This new comprehensive guide can be found in Chapter 12: Creating and Integrating with OpenSocial Gadgets in the Development Guide. The chapter introduces gadget basics, OAuth technology, PubSub, and a guide for using Liferay Portal's gadget editor. Likewise, fun examples and fully functional code snippets offer a great learning experience for developers.

If you're interested in learning more about OpenSocial gadgets or want to incorporate them into your portal, make sure to visit Liferay's Development Guide!

The Knowledge Management team is pleased to bring an extensive guide for one of Liferay Developer Studio's newest features: Kaleo Designer for Java. The Kaleo Designer for Java facilitates back-end Java development and scripting to incorporate in your workflows. This feature adds another dimension to working with your Kaleo workflows making it easy for Java developers to enhance workflow business logic.

This new comprehensive guide can be found in Chapter 9: Liferay IDE located within Liferay's Development Guide. The guide introduces background information, features, capabilities, set-up procedures, and a working example for developers to reference when trying out this new feature. Also, snapshots are given for a visual reference. This comprehensive guide gives you a plethora of tips and options about Kaleo Designer for Java hinged on a fun and useful workflow exercise. Lastly, you can visit Greg Amerson's video for a brief visual demo.

If you need assistance or just want to learn more about the Kaleo Designer for Java, this guide is a necessary pit-stop for your workflow development!