Blogs

Petteri Karttunen | Oct 5, 2017 3:07 PM

More than once I've been asked to customise Liferay search to be "simpler" and more "Google like". In the first part of this blog series I'm going to create a custom search portlet from scratch...

Jim Hinkey | Oct 5, 2017 3:06 PM

If you've been developing apps, hooks, and themes on Liferay Portal 6, you might be wondering whether you'll be able to develop apps the same way on DXP Digital Enterprise 7 and Liferay Portal CE...

Bryan H Cheung | Oct 4, 2017 10:03 AM

Hello Liferay Community! I'm here at the Liferay Unconference in Amsterdam, listening to Brett Swaim talk about his real world experiences with upgrades and Staging. Earlier, I ran into Darryl...

Olaf Kock | Oct 2, 2017 3:29 PM

Yay, another episode, and maybe in time to sweeten your trip to Devcon in Amsterdam. I spoke to Kristoffer Onias and Victor Ware. Both work on testing Liferay with different areas of interest....

Eduardo P. García | Oct 2, 2017 10:55 AM

One more year, Liferay Developer Conference (DEVCON) will bring together developers from all around the world to learn about Liferay, our platform, available tools and the people behind the...

Neil Griffin | Sep 14, 2017 8:57 PM

On September 13, 2017 the Liferay Faces project received a maintenance release according to the new Liferay Faces Version Scheme. The maintenance release addresses 226 issues: 124 bugs fixed 7...

Manuel de la Peña | Sep 14, 2017 7:02 AM

Hi Liferayers! We'd like to share with you that we have created non-official, public Docker images from our master branch! And we are releasing them every day. The rationale for pushing to a...

David H Nebinger | Sep 8, 2017 1:21 PM

A quick note for those using SiteMinder and Liferay... Liferay likes the Tilde (~) character, and uses it quite often for friendly URLs and other reasons. When fronting with SiteMinder, though, you...

Ashley Yuan | Sep 7, 2017 3:05 AM

Hello all, We are pleased to announce the third release for Liferay IDE and Studio Installers. This version is mainly for bug fixes. Liferay IDE 3.1.2 GA3 You can update or install the new...

Minhchau Dang | Sep 6, 2017 7:32 PM

Many months later, it's time to continue the series on Liferay from Source. For this segment, we'll start with the following question: why would you have wanted to build from source in the first...

Andrew Jardine | Aug 18, 2017 3:06 PM

I recently responded to the thread in the forums where the poster was asking about Liferay 7 and it's compatibility with OSGI. I am a huge JRebel fan myself and, based on what I know of JRebel and...

sejal patel | Aug 16, 2017 11:08 AM

Liferay 7 bolster for creating and deploying JAX-RS based REST services. JAX-RS is the JEE standards based approach for creating REST web services. As far as building up the real administrations it...

Eduardo P. García | Jul 19, 2017 6:44 PM

A FAQ about Application Display Templates (ADTs) is how to render the fields in an structured web content when it is listed on an Asset Publisher portlet. Paulo Fernandes proposed in a blog entry a...

Ashley Yuan | Jul 14, 2017 2:05 AM

3.1 GA 1 and Installers Released Hello all, The latest stable release of Liferay IDE, Liferay Developer Studio: version 3.1 GA1, and Liferay Workspace Installer 1.5.0 have been released. Liferay...

David H Nebinger | Jul 12, 2017 2:12 PM

Taking a short break from the Vue.js portlet because I had to implement a repository proxy. Since I was implementing it, I wanted to blog about it and give you the option of implementing one too....

David H Nebinger | Jun 28, 2017 3:12 AM

Introduction In part 1 of the blog series, we started a Vue.js portlet based in the Liferay Workspace, but actually there was no JS framework introduced just yet. We're actually going to continue...

David H Nebinger | Jun 27, 2017 4:09 PM

Introduction In Liferay 7 CE / Liferay DXP, there are new facilities in place to help us create JS portlets. In this blog series I'm going to present a new project to demonstrate how to build...

David H Nebinger | Jun 26, 2017 1:01 PM

According to Liferay: Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is an emerging category of enterprise software seeking to meet the needs of companies undergoing digital transformation, with the ultimate...

David H Nebinger | Jun 21, 2017 8:56 PM

Just a quick blog today... When you start up LR 7 CE/LR DXP, you'll often see it stop while trying to validate LPKGs. This is a security measure which is used to verify that the LPKG files have not...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 19, 2017 4:45 PM

I am pleased to announce the immediate release of Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA4! Download Now! Update 6/28/2017: Ext Plugins - We thought we had a bug in CE GA4 affecting deployment to Tomcat and...

David H Nebinger | Jun 17, 2017 5:48 AM

If you're a Java Architect or Senior Developer, you know just how important the Java access modifiers are. Each choice about what to make public, protected, private or package protected is...

David H Nebinger | Jun 17, 2017 1:51 AM

So a question came up today how to access the current user as part of a REST method body. My friend, Andre Fabbro, was trying to build out the following application: @ApplicationPath("/myapp")...

David H Nebinger | Jun 16, 2017 3:05 AM

So if you've started developing for Liferay 7 CE / Liferay DXP, I'm sure you've been hit at one point or another with the old "unresolved reference" issue that prevents your bundle from starting....

Bryan H Cheung | Jun 15, 2017 11:49 PM

Today I’m writing to announce several new and exciting initiatives within the Liferay Community. We consider this to be the starting point for a completely revamped community experience. We also...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 14, 2017 7:23 PM

Originally Published on the Liferay Community site We have exciting news about a brand new way you can connect with others in the Liferay Community. Right now, you have two platforms to share...

Milen Dyankov | Jun 14, 2017 6:11 PM

Originally published on Liferay Community site Today we're announcing a new place for the Liferay Community! This is something we've been waiting for a long time and we're super excited to finally...

Zeno Rocha | Jun 14, 2017 5:56 PM

Originally published on Liferay Community Liferay evolved from being a single-product company to a much broader organization. Most of the code we write every day is open source and we continue to...

David H Nebinger | Jun 13, 2017 4:19 AM

The one thing I never understood was why the UI behind the /api/jsonws is publicly viewable. I mean, there's lots of arguments for it to be secured: Exposing all of your web service APIs exposes...

Javeed Chida | Jun 12, 2017 4:58 PM

Every now and then, there comes a time in a CMS developer's life when the sin of taking default settings for granted takes its toll. There. I phrased that carefully so it would make a list of...

David H Nebinger | May 18, 2017 3:37 AM

Introduction Today I ran into someone having issues with ServiceBuilder and the creation of UpgradeProcess implementations. The doco is a little bit confusing, so I thought I'd do a quick blog post...

Jan Eerdekens | May 14, 2017 12:12 PM

Historically there have been a number of extension points in Liferay that enable developers to hook into portal events and add their own custom/additional behaviour. In Liferay DXP this is still...

Neil Jin | May 13, 2017 4:18 AM

In this tutorial, I am going to talk about how to utilize promise object to access web service in Liferay DXP. Before we get into more detail, please take a note that the version Liferay I am...

Ashley Yuan | May 9, 2017 1:14 AM

Hello all, We are pleased to announce that we have pushed a new release of Liferay IDE 3.1 to the milestones updatesite. You can install the new release here as usual: ...

David H Nebinger | May 8, 2017 4:29 AM

Introduction When it comes to Liferay performance tuning, there is one golden rule: The more you offload from the application server, the better your performance will be. This applies to all...

David H Nebinger | May 5, 2017 10:37 PM

So I have a blog I created a long time ago dealing w/ Liferay and SSL. The foundation of that blog post was my Fronting Liferay Tomcat with Apache HTTPd post and added terminating SSL at HTTPd and...

David H Nebinger | May 3, 2017 3:08 PM

In case you aren't aware, Liferay 7 CE and Liferay DXP default to using Hikari CP for the connection pools. Why? Well here's a pretty good reason: Hikari just kicks the pants of any other...

Jonathan Lundy | Apr 18, 2017 10:32 PM

From the very beginning, we knew that great documentation was crucial to successfully sharing WeDeploy with the world. Since then, we have been exploring new ways to take the WeDeploy learning...

Neil Griffin | Apr 11, 2017 4:03 PM

Overview JCP & JSRs JCP Governance JCP Membership JSR Implementations Benefits Participating in Expert Groups Participating in Adopt-a-JSR Benefits to Using Java Standards Longevity Popularity &...

Neil Jin | Apr 11, 2017 1:56 PM

Liferay DXP本身帶有一個Carousel的範本，但是這個範本使用的是舊的AUI的範本。現在因為Liferay DXP是基於Lexicon和Bootstrap 3的，創建一個響應式的圖片播放非常簡單。 基本需求: 圖片播放基本功能 螢幕尺寸變化後，圖片不變型 修改圖片不需要修改代碼 不需要部署外掛程式 可複用 分析: 可以利用Bootstrap...

Neil Jin | Apr 10, 2017 1:24 AM

Liferay DXP ships with a default carousel Application Display Template in global site. But this one is an old fashion AUI one that has been used often before DXP. Since Liferay DXP support Lexicon,...

David H Nebinger | Mar 29, 2017 4:23 AM

For the last few months as I've been working with Liferay 7 CE / Liferay DXP, I've been a little stymied trying to manage the complexities of the new OSGi universe. In Liferay 6.x, for example, an...

Maarten van Heiningen | Mar 22, 2017 10:27 AM

Mobile First with Liferay Screens – part 4 Webinar: Mobile Strategy: Optimizing for the Connected Customer Mobile apps have become an integral part of our communication with customers and...

David H Nebinger | Mar 21, 2017 5:56 PM

For those of you deploying Liferay DXP to WebLogic, you will need to add an override property to your portal-ext.properties file to allow the WebLogic JAXB implementation to peer inside the OSGi...

Jamie Sammons | Mar 6, 2017 8:58 PM

Introduction Liferay Portal has been nominated for the SourceForge Project of the Month for April! Nominees are selected from projects that have recently been a Project of the Week, have a high...

David H Nebinger | Mar 1, 2017 4:44 AM

Introduction So I've been working on some new Blade sample projects, and one of those is the Spring MVC portlet example. As pointed to in the Liferay documentation for Spring MVC portlets, these...

David H Nebinger | Mar 1, 2017 3:27 AM

Okay, this is probably going to be one of my shortest blog posts, but it's important. Some releases of Liferay have code to "infer" a portlet name if it is not specified in the component...

Zeno Rocha | Feb 28, 2017 9:31 PM

Every other year we have a company retreat where people from all over the world travel to California for a series of meetings and team building activities. This is a very unique opportunity for...

Sarai Diaz | Feb 28, 2017 9:04 AM

Hi community! I’m Sarai Díaz, Software Engineer working at Madrid’s office in the Liferay Screens team! :) This is my first blog post and I want to tell you something... Native technology is a...

David H Nebinger | Feb 24, 2017 3:50 AM

I'm taking a short hiatus from the design pattern series to cover a topic I've heard a lot of questions on lately - migrating 6.2 Service Builder wars to Liferay 7 CE / Liferay DXP. Basically it...

Neil Jin | Feb 21, 2017 5:50 AM

原文： https://web.liferay.com/web/user.26526/blog/-/blogs/liferay-osgi-annotations-what-they-are-and-when-to-use-them 原文作者： DAVID H NEBINGER 当你查看Liferay 7 CE/Liferay...

David H Nebinger | Feb 17, 2017 3:33 PM

Pattern: Multi-Scoped Data/Logic Intent The intent for this pattern is to support data/logic usage in multiple scopes. Liferay defines the scopes Global, Site and Page, but from a development...

Andy Wu | Feb 17, 2017 1:56 AM

Hi all, We are happy to say that we have the new milestone for Liferay IDE 3.1 released as described in section Updates and Feedback in Liferay IDE 3.1 Milestone 1 Released. Go to...

David H Nebinger | Feb 15, 2017 2:18 PM

Introduction So I'm going to start a new type of blog series here covering design patterns in Liferay. As we all know: In software engineering, a software design pattern is a general reusable...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 13, 2017 11:09 PM

I am pleased to announce the Social Office to Liferay 7 upgrade has been released! Update 06/16/2017: For anyone interested in the tasks application, I have converted it to Liferay 7 modules. ...

David H Nebinger | Feb 8, 2017 2:10 PM

Recently I was lamenting how I felt that JSP fragment bundles could not introduce new dependencies and therefore the JSP overrides could really not do much more than reorganize or add/remove...

David H Nebinger | Feb 7, 2017 3:25 PM

One of the things that I never really used in 6.x was the Liferay upgrade APIs. Sure, I knew about the Release table and stuff, but it just seemed kind of cumbersome to not only to build out your...

David H Nebinger | Feb 7, 2017 12:33 AM

In Liferay 6.x, scheduled tasks were kind of easy to implement. I mean, you'd implement a class that implements the Liferay Message Bus's MessageListener interface and then add the details in the...

Neil Jin | Feb 6, 2017 11:38 PM

This article talks about how to create json web service based on Service Builder Service. Knowledge: Service Builder JSON Web Service When we intent to make a service to be a web provider to...

Dave Truong | Feb 2, 2017 8:09 PM

A search for a better SDK A little over a year ago, the Dev Tools Team began a new project hoping to fix the issues we encountered with the Plugins SDK. We had just finished modularizing our...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2017 6:14 AM

When you start reviewing Liferay 7 CE/Liferay DXP code, you run into a lot of annotations in a lot of different ways. They can all seem kind of overwhelming when you first happen upon them, so I...