Blogs

David H Nebinger | Jan 16, 2019 7:29 PM

Introduction I have helped many companies and organizations install Liferay (5, 6 and now 7/DXP), but often times they will stop there. I mean, once the app servers are up and serving traffic...

Jan Verweij | Dec 14, 2018 10:35 AM

While trying to give your users the best experience ever you always try to keep things simple. In the past I have filled in many forms and many times with the same data and many times at the same...

Pablo Agulla | Dec 13, 2018 4:45 PM

I’m happy to announce the release of the first beta for the new set of Liferay REST APIs. But before going into details, for those of you who might not be aware of this project, I’d like to give...

Bryan H Cheung | Dec 11, 2018 9:37 PM

Background Last fall we reintroduced the option to use clustering in Liferay 7.0 by compiling a series of modules manually and including them in your project. We received a lot of feedback that...

Joshua St. Clair | Nov 26, 2018 7:03 PM

So perusing the web, you'll notice there's a couple of resources out there explaining how to override the default favicon in Liferay. Of course, the standard way is to add it to /images folder of...

David H Nebinger | Nov 16, 2018 5:55 PM

So we've all seen those @Reference annotations scattered throughout the Liferay code, and it can almost seem like those references are not changeable. In fact, this is not really true at all. The...

David H Nebinger | Nov 16, 2018 3:24 PM

Introduction When developing JSP-based portlets for OSGi deployment, and even when doing JSP fragment bundle overrides, it is often necessary to get service references in the JSP pages. But OSGi...

David H Nebinger | Nov 16, 2018 5:22 AM

Introduction The official Liferay deployment docs are available here: https://dev.liferay.com/discover/deployment They make it easy for folks new to Liferay to get the system up and running and...

David H Nebinger | Nov 15, 2018 10:46 PM

Introduction A client recently was moving off of Google Search Appliance (GSA) on to Liferay and Elasticsearch. One key aspect of GSA that they relied on though, was KeyMatch. What is KeyMatch?...

David H Nebinger | Nov 13, 2018 11:28 PM

Introduction So often when discussing how to deal with dependencies, we're often looking for ways to package our third party jars into our custom modules. There's good reason to do this. It ensures...

Dave Truong | Nov 12, 2018 7:52 PM

As some of you may have already discovered, 7.1 GA2 was released as a 7zip bundle instead of the typical zip bundle. This probably caused a ton of issues. Even our own Dev Tools are not yet...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Nov 5, 2018 11:16 PM

Mitigating RichFaces 4.5.17.Final EOL Vulnerabilities If you are using RichFaces, you should be aware that Code White has discovered some remote code execution vulnerabilities in the component...

Jamie Sammons | Nov 2, 2018 4:56 PM

Update: This has been moved to January 11, 2019. Reason for the changes The vulnerabilities in TLS 1.0 (and SSL protocols) include POODLE and DROWN. Due to these security risks, Liferay decided to...

Ibai Ruiz | Oct 31, 2018 2:57 PM

Helping my colleague Sergio Sanchez with his GDPR talk in the past Spanish Symposium, I came across a hidden gem in Liferay 7.1. It turns out you can integrate custom Service Builder entities with...

Luis Miguel Barcos | Oct 29, 2018 5:07 PM

In the previous posts, we talked about what we were going to do, how we were going to do it, and which tools we were going to use. We introduced you the Liferay Screens’s screenlets and the reason...

Sarai Diaz | Oct 29, 2018 2:14 PM

Previously, we talked about how market is really fragmented right now because there isn’t any popular hybrid framework. We kept an eye on some of the most popular frameworks like React Native,...

Álvaro Saugar | Oct 27, 2018 10:57 AM

//The spanish version of this article can be found here: Primer aniversario de la comunidad Liferay en España, otra vez. One year ago, on October 25, 2017, Liferay Community in Spain started again....

Eduardo Perez | Oct 23, 2018 12:50 PM

As many of you probably know, starting with Liferay DXP, Elasticsearch is the default Search Engine. In fact, by default, an Elasticsearch instance is embedded in Liferay DXP (it’s a good moment to...

Victor Galan | Oct 23, 2018 10:43 AM

In the previous blog post we covered the beginning of the project, this includes a description of the app features, advantages of using Liferay Screens and lastly the wireframe. In this one, we...

Victor Galan | Oct 23, 2018 10:29 AM

Before we begin with this story, for those of you that don’t know about Liferay Screens. Liferay Screens is a library for iOS, Android and Xamarin that aims to speed up the development of native...

Pavel Savinov | Oct 21, 2018 7:21 PM

Display pages functionality in Liferay always was tightly coupled to the Web Content articles, we never had plans to support more or less the same technology for other types of assets even though...

Pavel Savinov | Oct 19, 2018 5:03 AM

In Liferay 7.1 we presented a new vision to the page authoring process. The main idea was to empower business users to create pages and visualize contents in a very visual way, without a need to...

Minhchau Dang | Oct 17, 2018 8:19 PM

Liferay is a large project, and many developers who are attempting to get their customizations to work with Liferay will often end up asking the question, "What version of module W should I use at...

Luis Miguel Barcos | Oct 8, 2018 4:02 PM

First of all, for those of you who don't know about Liferay Screens. Liferay Screens is a component library based on components called Screenlets. A screenlet is a visual component that you insert...

David Gomez | Sep 26, 2018 10:59 AM

Java 11 has just been released (on Sep, 25th) and it comes with the consolidation of a series of changes, not only to the language and the platform, but to the release and support model that has...

Dave Truong | Sep 25, 2018 9:21 PM

With the release of JDK11, Oracle's new Java SE Support Policy (and here) brings sweeping changes to the Java Enterprise community. If you would like a good explanation of the changes to come, I...

Michael Williams | Sep 20, 2018 7:01 PM

Charts are great visual aids. They're crucial to digesting data and information quickly. Prior to Liferay Portal 7.1, we didn't have a way to include charts in our apps. No more! Now you can use...

Ashley Yuan | Sep 18, 2018 7:34 AM

We are pleased to announce the second general available release of Liferay Project SDK Installers. New Installers The installation problems are fixed in the new release, and a few bug fixes. ...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Sep 17, 2018 4:36 PM

Liferay Faces Released With Liferay Portal 7.1 Support! Liferay Faces Portal 3.0.3, Bridge Impl 4.1.2, and Bridge Ext 5.0.3 have been released with support for Liferay Portal 7.1! The release also...

David H Nebinger | Sep 14, 2018 7:38 PM

Introduction So those who know me or have worked with me know that I hate theming. I do. I find it to be one of the hardest things in Liferay to get right. I can build modules all day long, but ask...

Louis-Guillaume Durand | Sep 14, 2018 3:48 PM

Introduction In this article I’ll try to give you a comprehensive picture of the current state of theming in Liferay 7.1. To do this, I’ll describe the evolution of Liferay theming from the early...

Christopher Boyd | Sep 13, 2018 11:54 AM

Hello all! We want our development tools to be flexible and extensible enough to meet our users requirements, and with this in mind, we have developed 2 new concepts for Blade: Extensions and...

David H Nebinger | Sep 12, 2018 12:54 PM

Just a quick blog in case it hasn't come up before... Liferay was using a CDN for offloading traffic for the repository artifacts. You've likely seen the URL during builds or within your build...

Olaf Kock | Sep 12, 2018 8:25 AM

Did you already book your ticket for Devcon 2018? Early Bird ends in a few hours (14 Sep 2018) and I hear that the Unconference is solidly booked (not yet sold out, but on a good path to be sold...

Emiliano Cicero | Sep 11, 2018 8:29 AM

With Liferay releasing new products such as Analytics Cloud and Commerce we decided to cover the need for charts by providing an open source library. The technology Clay, our main implementation...

Ianire Cobeaga | Sep 10, 2018 8:55 AM

This is the second post explaining the new Web Experience functionalities released in version 7.1 of Liferay Portal. As presented in the previous post, in order to empower business users, it is...

David H Nebinger | Sep 7, 2018 5:59 PM

By request, a blog to explain compile vs compileOnly vs compileInclude... First it is important to understand that these are actually names for various configurations used during the build process,...

David H Nebinger | Sep 6, 2018 6:04 PM

Introduction One of the benefits that you get from an enterprise-class JEE application server is a centralized administration console. Rather than needing to manage nodes individually like you...

David H Nebinger | Sep 6, 2018 12:34 AM

From the home office outside of Charleston, South Carolina, here are the top ten reasons to avoid Portlet and HTTP session storage: Number 10 - With sticky sessions, traffic originating from a web...

David H Nebinger | Sep 5, 2018 4:36 PM

The Ugly In one of the first Liferay projects I ever did, I had a need to have some Roles in the environment. They needed to be there so I knew they were available for a custom portlet to assign...

Ashley Yuan | Sep 5, 2018 3:41 AM

Liferay IntelliJ 1.1.1 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Watch task decorator improvements Support for Liferay DXP Wildfly and CE...

David H Nebinger | Sep 3, 2018 4:41 PM

Introduction As I spend more time digging around in the bowels of the Liferay source code, I'm always learning new things. Recently I was digging in the Liferay extenders and thought I would share...

Dave Truong | Aug 28, 2018 8:11 PM

One of the initiatives our Quality Assurance Team has taken the past few years, has been to try and automate all their testing. This has resulted in testing all of our compatible environments in a...

Ashley Yuan | Aug 28, 2018 2:21 AM

We are pleased to announce the new release of Liferay Project SDK Installers version 3.3.0 GA1. Download: For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page. ...

David H Nebinger | Aug 25, 2018 1:57 PM

I've been asked a couple of times recently about different aspects of @Modified annotation that I'm not sure have been made clear in the documentation, so I wanted to cover the lifecycle...

David H Nebinger | Aug 19, 2018 8:24 PM

Introduction So many times I have answered the question, "How do I find out what import packages my bundle needs?" with the tired and unsatisfactory response that uses the following process: Build...

Olaf Kock | Aug 16, 2018 7:38 AM

As promised less than a month ago, we're working on more content for Liferay University. Meet your new professors Charles Cohick and Dimple Koticha. The new lessons are Gain Insight Into the...

David H Nebinger | Aug 15, 2018 3:39 PM

A SysAdmin came up to me and said he was having issues starting Liferay DXP 7.0, a bunch of CNFEs were coming up at startup. I found that they were set up to use Wily for monitoring their JVMs, and...

Victor Zorin | Aug 13, 2018 7:26 AM

This is the second part of the "Extending Liferay DXP - User Registration" blog. In this blog we explore the ways of implementing registration process for a portal with multiple sites. Portal...

Victor Zorin | Aug 6, 2018 1:22 AM

I am starting a short series of blogs in which I will show how to customise User Registration / Customer Acquisition process in Liferay. The inspiration for this blog is one of our DXP portal...

Ianire Cobeaga | Aug 3, 2018 10:54 AM

In Liferay Portal 7.1 a lot of effort has been put in improving the experience of building sites and pages and, as a result, some new functionalities have been introduced to empower marketers and...

Ashley Yuan | Aug 3, 2018 2:48 AM

We are pleased to announce the first general available release of Liferay Project SDK Installers that support Liferay 7.1. New Installers: For customers, they can download all of them on the...

Pavel Savinov | Aug 2, 2018 7:32 AM

Recently we got a couple of complains about new Web Content article behaviour, specifically about the JournalArticle.getContent() method’s return value. The main problem developers experience is...

David H Nebinger | Jul 30, 2018 6:10 PM

TL;DR - Add "-v 7.0" to your Blade command line to create modules for Liferay CE 7.0 and Liferay DXP 7.0. Hey, just a quick blog post here for something that developers may need to know... I...

Susana Vazquez | Jul 26, 2018 10:34 AM

The world is big and diverse. Right now there are around 7.6 billion people in the world, 4 billion with an internet access. When you’re improving a Design System for a product used worldwide, like...

Bryan H Cheung | Jul 19, 2018 7:11 PM

Background When we removed clustering from the GA release of LP7, we were trying to solve a specific problem. However, I knew even as I made the decision that this would frustrate smaller systems...

David H Nebinger | Jul 19, 2018 12:51 AM

Intro In case you're not aware, Liferay uses Apache PDFBox to look at your PDFs. In order to index the content of a PDF, Liferay uses PDFBox to extract the content and uses that during...

Jamie Sammons | Jul 18, 2018 4:11 PM

As they say: All good things must come to an end. With the official release of Liferay Portal 7.1 CE GA1 we are officially ending the community beta program. We had over 250 sign ups with 48 active...

Ashley Yuan | Jul 17, 2018 3:07 AM

The latest release of Liferay IntelliJ 1.0.0 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading. The most notable features for this latest 1.0.0 release are : Support...

Matija Šuklje | Jul 16, 2018 11:06 AM

Liferay, Inc was established on the the strong foundation of an Open Source project. The company has since grown to offer many different projects and products, yet we continue to believe in and...