diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
index 2a3f9ff..16cc1af 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@
         <dependent-module archiveName="gcube-widgets-2.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/gcube-widgets/gcube-widgets">
             <dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
         </dependent-module>
-        <dependent-module archiveName="switch-button-widget-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/switch-button-widget/switch-button-widget">
-            <dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
-        </dependent-module>
     <property name="java-output-path" value="/${module}/target/www/WEB-INF/classes"/>
         <property name="context-root" value="share-updates"/>
   </wb-module>
diff --git a/distro/changelog.xml b/distro/changelog.xml
index 3fc476e..0d99b39 100644
--- a/distro/changelog.xml
+++ b/distro/changelog.xml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-6-0"
 		date="2018-02-07">
 		<Change>restyled checkbox for notifications</Change>
+		<Change>Removed depcreated TIBCO Pagebus library and replaces with Liferay's IPC Client Side</Change>
 	</Changeset>
 	<Changeset component="org.gcube.portlets-user.shareupdates.2-5-0"
 		date="2017-12-07">
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9413b6b..771d0f1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -190,11 +190,7 @@
 			<artifactId>htmlcleaner</artifactId>
 			<version>2.2</version>
 		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>net.eliasbalasis</groupId>
-			<artifactId>tibcopagebus4gwt</artifactId>
-			<version>1.2.0</version>
-		</dependency>
+		
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-validator</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/client/ShareUpdates.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/client/ShareUpdates.java
index 428d9db..4dd40d1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/client/ShareUpdates.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/client/ShareUpdates.java
@@ -15,4 +15,14 @@ public class ShareUpdates implements EntryPoint {
 	public void onModuleLoad() {
 		RootPanel.get("shareUpdateDiv").add(new ShareUpdateForm());
 	}
+	/**
+	 * fire the event to the News Feed portlet
+	 * @param json
+	 */
+	public static native void sendLiferayIPCEvent(String json) /*-{
+	  	$wnd.Liferay.fire('newPostCreated',{
+			payload: json
+		});
+	}-*/;
+
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/client/view/ShareUpdateForm.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/client/view/ShareUpdateForm.java
index 856732e..8685891 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/client/view/ShareUpdateForm.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/client/view/ShareUpdateForm.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import org.gcube.portal.databook.shared.PrivacyLevel;
 import org.gcube.portal.databook.shared.UserInfo;
 import org.gcube.portlets.user.shareupdates.client.ShareUpdateService;
 import org.gcube.portlets.user.shareupdates.client.ShareUpdateServiceAsync;
+import org.gcube.portlets.user.shareupdates.client.ShareUpdates;
 import org.gcube.portlets.user.shareupdates.shared.LinkPreview;
 import org.gcube.portlets.user.shareupdates.shared.UploadedFile;
 import org.gcube.portlets.user.shareupdates.shared.UserSettings;
@@ -20,7 +21,6 @@ import org.gcube.portlets.widgets.fileupload.client.events.FileUploadCompleteEve
 import org.gcube.portlets.widgets.fileupload.client.view.FileSubmit;
 import org.gcube.portlets.widgets.fileupload.client.view.UploadProgressPanel;
 import org.gcube.portlets.widgets.switchbutton.client.SwitchButton;
-import org.jsonmaker.gwt.client.Jsonizer;
 
 import com.github.gwtbootstrap.client.ui.Button;
 import com.github.gwtbootstrap.client.ui.ListBox;
@@ -52,9 +52,6 @@ import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.HTMLPanel;
 import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Image;
 import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.ValueBoxBase.TextAlignment;
 import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget;
-
-import net.eliasbalasis.tibcopagebus4gwt.client.PageBusAdapter;
-import net.eliasbalasis.tibcopagebus4gwt.client.PageBusAdapterException;
 /**
  * 	The main share update class.
  * @author Massimiliano Assante at ISTI CNR
@@ -66,7 +63,6 @@ public class ShareUpdateForm extends Composite {
 	private final ShareUpdateServiceAsync shareupdateService = GWT
 			.create(ShareUpdateService.class);
 
-	final PageBusAdapter pageBusAdapter = new PageBusAdapter();
 
 	// the label for all Vres/channels
 	private final static String ALL_VRES = "Share with: your Virtual Research Environments";
@@ -546,14 +542,9 @@ public class ShareUpdateForm extends Composite {
 					if (post == null)
 						Window.alert("Ops! we encountered some problems delivering your message, please try again in a short while.");
 					else {
-						// publish a message with the refresh notification
-						try {
-
-							pageBusAdapter.PageBusPublish("org.gcube.portal.databook.shared", post, (Jsonizer)GWT.create(ClientFeedJsonizer.class));
-
-						} catch (PageBusAdapterException ex) {
-							GWT.log(ex.getMessage());
-						}
+						ClientFeedJsonizer cJsonizer = (ClientFeedJsonizer) GWT.create(ClientFeedJsonizer.class);
+						String json = cJsonizer.asString(post);
+						ShareUpdates.sendLiferayIPCEvent(json);
 					}
 
 					//needed when posting long texts otherwise it stays with the current height 
@@ -600,12 +591,15 @@ public class ShareUpdateForm extends Composite {
 						Window.alert("Ops! we encountered some problems delivering your message, please try again in a short while.");
 					else {
 						// publish a message with the refresh notification
-						try {
-							pageBusAdapter.PageBusPublish("org.gcube.portal.databook.shared", feed, (Jsonizer)GWT.create(ClientFeedJsonizer.class));
-							GWT.log("SENT");
-						} catch (PageBusAdapterException ex) {
-							GWT.log(ex.getMessage());
-						}
+//						try {
+//							pageBusAdapter.PageBusPublish("org.gcube.portal.databook.shared", feed, (Jsonizer)GWT.create(ClientFeedJsonizer.class));
+//							GWT.log("SENT");
+//						} catch (PageBusAdapterException ex) {
+//							GWT.log(ex.getMessage());
+//						}
+						ClientFeedJsonizer cJsonizer = (ClientFeedJsonizer) GWT.create(ClientFeedJsonizer.class);
+						String json = cJsonizer.asString(feed);
+						ShareUpdates.sendLiferayIPCEvent(json);
 					}
 
 					//needed when posting long texts otherwise it stays with the current height 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/ShareUpdates.gwt.xml b/src/main/resources/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/ShareUpdates.gwt.xml
index c245926..ef15ea1 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/ShareUpdates.gwt.xml
+++ b/src/main/resources/org/gcube/portlets/user/shareupdates/ShareUpdates.gwt.xml
@@ -3,16 +3,12 @@
 	<!-- Inherit the core Web Toolkit stuff. -->
 	<inherits name='com.google.gwt.user.User' />
 
-	<inherits name="net.eliasbalasis.tibcopagebus4gwt.tibcopagebus4gwt" />
+
 	<inherits name="org.jsonmaker.gwt.Gwt_jsonmaker" />
 	<inherits name="com.github.gwtbootstrap.Bootstrap" />
 	<!-- inherits GCUBE Widgets -->
 	<inherits name='org.gcube.portlets.user.gcubewidgets.WidgetFactory' />
 	<inherits name='org.gcube.portlets.widgets.switchbutton.SwitchButton' />
-
-	<inherits
-		name="net.eliasbalasis.tibcopagebus4gwt.testsubscriber.TestSubscriber" />
-
 	<!-- Responsive design -->
 	<set-property name="bootstrap.responsiveDesign" value="true" />