Blogs

Olaf Kock | Sep 16, 2025 2:05 PM

Javascript EventListeners are a great tool and easily introduced in a template, a fragment or any other frontend component. It's quick to write window.addEventListener("scroll", doSomething); and...

Sudhanshu Mishra | Aug 16, 2025 4:18 PM

Before moving forward, we must know, What is CRA and Vite? Why we should always use Vite over CRA? Let's have clarity to these questions first.   1. CRA (Create React App) What it is: CRA is a...

Eric DARIEL | Jun 20, 2025 3:45 PM

Many weeks ago, David H Nebinger show us how to use React Custom Element and optimize them with ImportMaps. I ask him how to do this with Angular and he answer me that it were not a Liferay issue...

David H Nebinger | Dec 9, 2024 4:26 PM

Well, we've done it! We've updated finally from React 16 to React 18 at the portal level. In DXP 2025.Q1 and CE GA 134*, Liferay is no longer going to be based on React 16. This is significant...

David H Nebinger | Oct 11, 2024 1:07 PM

Many weeks ago I blogged about how I could no longer add images to blogs and this was preventing me from publishing some entries I had which needed screen shots... We have since fixed that issue,...

Jawad Bin Azhar | Oct 9, 2024 12:30 PM

you read it right :) , the idea might sound weird to many but if you are like me and have been working on Liferay for quiet some time especially for clients with lots of custom OSGI modules , where...

David H Nebinger | Sep 18, 2024 12:55 PM

Introduction As evidenced by my recent blogs, I'm still on a React Custom Element Client Extension tear... I think this is the best way to develop custom solutions on Liferay because they are free...

Jeffrey Handa | Aug 1, 2024 2:27 AM

Introduction This is a quick follow up to my last post where I discussed how to use Liferay's batch APIs to import products. I've had a few people asking how they could leverage the batch APIs to...

Sai Tejesh | Jul 29, 2024 12:09 PM

Liferay objects provide feature to filter the data with exact content on the field level and generic search that searches in the whole object. It also supports field level search in the filter...

Lohita Sagar Mishra | Jul 8, 2024 9:24 AM

Virtual Instance in Liferay 7.4 In this Blog Today we will discuss about the Virtual Instance in Liferay 7.4 version. What is virtual Instance: - As we know that when we install a new Liferay DXP...

Jeffrey Handa | Jul 1, 2024 7:33 PM

Introduction In most cases, if you’re going to be using Liferay’s Product capabilities you’re going to be importing product data from an external system such as a PIM, ERP, or even a legacy...

Neil Griffin | Apr 26, 2024 7:13 PM

Spring Framework Compatibility Version Release Date Description   5.3.4 April 26, 2024 AD For use with Spring Framework 5.3.x (tested with 5.3.34) Release Notes 5.2.5 April 26, 2024 AD For use with...

David H Nebinger | Apr 19, 2024 4:16 AM

In my last blog, Creating a React Client Extension, I basically built a React-based SPA that was hosted on Liferay. And I got to thinking that we really aren't sharing just how great Liferay is to...

David H Nebinger | Apr 14, 2024 4:11 PM

Introduction In my recent blog, Introduction to Liferay Objects, I used Objects and Liferay OOTB facilities to have a list of Course Registrations and UI interfaces for submitting a new Course...

David H Nebinger | Apr 3, 2024 1:46 PM

Introduction So I've been working on my Objects Rule! series and have been working on an app I plan on showing off soon, but I realized that there is probably a gap explaining, well, how do you get...

David H Nebinger | Mar 18, 2024 1:53 PM

Introduction In a recent blog, Intro to Liferay Objects, I created a new application for the Masterclass site for submitting and approving course registrations entirely using OOTB features of...

David H Nebinger | Mar 15, 2024 7:44 PM

Introduction Wow, I've blogged about Liferay Objects a lot lately. Talked about them too. Also am working on developing materials for learn.liferay.com about Objects. But one thing I haven't seen...

David H Nebinger | Feb 29, 2024 8:37 PM

Introduction I was recently in a meeting reviewing some FreeMarker templates that were extracting web contents using a structure, parsing and processing the data, and rendering an output. Basically...

Neil Griffin | Dec 12, 2023 5:49 PM

Spring Framework Compatibility Version Release Date Description   5.3.3 Dec 11, 2023 AD For use with Spring Framework 5.3.x (tested with 5.3.30) Release Notes 5.2.4 Dec 11, 2023 AD For use with...

David H Nebinger | Dec 4, 2023 6:32 PM

Introduction So I was recently working with a team that was completing an upgrade assessment for a client wanting to upgrade from 7.2 to 7.4. A big chunk of the work in upgrading the client was...

David H Nebinger | Nov 10, 2023 5:26 PM

Introduction So I kind of have a "famous" blog post on Liferay Scheduled Tasks: https://liferay.dev/blogs/-/blogs/liferay-7-ce-liferay-dxp-scheduled-tasks. I say "famous" because it has been used...

Iván Zaera Avellón | Oct 20, 2023 9:03 AM

This article explains how to deploy npm packages bundled with webpack that export and import stuff through the standard ECMAScript modules feature. This is a sequel of the Moving from AMD to...

Iván Zaera Avellón | Aug 11, 2023 10:12 AM

This article explains how to leverage the new ECMAScript modules feature (from now on will be referred to as ESM), Custom Element and Import Map Entry client extensions in Liferay DXP to achieve...

David H Nebinger | Apr 6, 2023 6:25 PM

Introduction So I'm going to be putting together a series of blogs on new things that are available in Liferay 7.4, but I realized after starting a blog on Objects that I need to take a step back...

Olaf Kock | Mar 30, 2023 9:19 AM

If you've ever repeatedly gone through a checklist, with programming knowledge: How often did you have to repeat the steps until you automated them? Or, without programming knowledge: How often did...

Neil Griffin | Sep 14, 2022 5:36 PM

"There is nothing new under the sun" - King Solomon, Ecclesiastes 1 In one sense, this blog entry doesn't contain anything new. In another sense, since it brings pieces of prior entries together, I...

David H Nebinger | Aug 9, 2022 2:56 PM

Just a quick one today... A community member reported getting an exception during module deployment: INFO [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][AutoDeployDir:238] Processing...

David H Nebinger | Jul 27, 2022 12:24 AM

Introduction You may have seen my blog Setting Up JNDI in Liferay 7.4 which I posted to explain how to do a JNDI lookup. The code works, I assure you, but there's one group of developers that blog...

David H Nebinger | Jul 22, 2022 2:59 PM

Introduction I've been working with a client to upgrade their Spring portlet wars to Liferay 7.4. And the update is kind of big as we're upgrading Spring, changing to PortletMVC4Spring (needed for...

Neil Griffin | Jul 20, 2022 8:33 PM

Celebrating 10 Years of Liferay Faces The Liferay Faces project began back in 2012, and 10 years later we're celebrating the most significant release in the history of the project, including:...

Maharajan Paramasivan | Apr 27, 2022 1:25 PM

Part-1 | What & Why & When Custom Liferay Framework Create your own Liferay Framework, Understand the possibilities to write your own Liferay framework for any complex custom developed solution...

Mohammed Yasin | Apr 21, 2022 9:19 AM

Liferay provides an option to configure password policy (refer), it provides an option to mention Password Expiry Time. Once the Password is expired then user will not be able to login to the...

Neil Griffin | Apr 4, 2022 3:27 PM

The following versions of PortletMVC4Spring were released on April 1, 2022 AD: (NOT an April Fools joke, BTW -- the release actually occurred on that day) Version Description   5.3.2 For use with...

Maharajan Paramasivan | Mar 9, 2022 5:18 AM

Part-2 | How to Custom Liferay Framework? Implement your own Custom Liferay Framework over a simple use case and understand the possibilities and capabilities that open up. Continuing on top of the...

David H Nebinger | Jan 26, 2022 12:02 AM

Introduction I was recently polling my coworkers looking for new blog ideas, and Filipe Melo asked about Websockets. I haven't seen any other documentation or blogs about building Websocket...

David H Nebinger | Jan 13, 2022 5:55 PM

Introduction My friend and coworker Eric Chin recently posed a question on our internal slack channels asking if anyone had experience with Liferay's Batch mode and he was not finding enough...

Neil Griffin | Jan 6, 2022 3:44 PM

The following versions of PortletMVC4Spring were released on January 5, 2022 AD: Version Description   5.3.1 For use with Spring Framework 5.3.x (tested with 5.3.12) Release Notes 5.2.2 For use...

David H Nebinger | Aug 24, 2021 3:24 PM

Introduction I posted two blog posts this week, and each of them had a particular drawback - lack of cluster coordination. The first blog post on cluster-enabled upgrade processes introduced using...

David H Nebinger | Aug 24, 2021 5:11 AM

Just a quick one... I've just updated my Log Persister project for Liferay 7.3. You can find it under the 7.3 branch: https://github.com/dnebing/log-persist/tree/7.3 For those that aren't aware, I...

David H Nebinger | Aug 21, 2021 5:40 PM

I recently was helping a client with an upgrade process and that had run into a little problem... A few of the model hints were not updated on some of the columns in their Service Builder services...

David H Nebinger | Aug 16, 2021 4:15 AM

A really quick post to share something important with you React + Clay developers out there... A recent update to Clay had a breaking internal change. If after deploying your React portlet and you...

David H Nebinger | Jul 21, 2021 6:13 AM

Introduction A client asked me to build a React portlet for them and I was like, "Oh Yeah!" I mean, it's been a while since I built a React portlet and tooling has really changed a lot since then,...

Neil Griffin | Jul 14, 2021 9:37 PM

Each year at about this time I try to post the download stats for the Liferay Faces project. I am pleased to report that downloads for the Liferay Faces project hit another all time high back in...

Olaf Kock | Jul 9, 2021 10:52 AM

If you’ve ever looked at a Liferay workflow implementation and its scripts, you might have seen workflowContext being referenced in the scripts that are executed in the individual tasks and states....

Neil Griffin | Jun 2, 2021 4:37 PM

The following versions of PortletMVC4Spring were released on June 2, 2021 AD: Version Description   5.3.0 For use with Spring Framework 5.3.x (tested with 5.3.7) Release Notes 5.2.2 For use with...

David H Nebinger | Apr 21, 2021 5:07 PM

Introduction One of the great advantages I have being known in the community is really the opportunity to meet, talk and work with talented developers and teams. Recently the team at ACSoftware...

David H Nebinger | Dec 22, 2020 9:09 PM

About a year ago, Liferay introduced a new program that I have been actively participating in, Liferay Developer Services. But what is this program? Liferay Support When you are a Liferay DXP...

Olaf Kock | Nov 6, 2020 4:17 PM

Sometimes there are several ways to achieve a goal - and this is a story about one of those times, and one of those different paths to achieve a goal. Recently, in a conversation, I came across two...

David H Nebinger | Jan 12, 2020 4:43 PM

Classic Liferay Localization Handling Any developer who has been around for awhile will have some knowledge of how Liferay handled localization for the entities... In your service.xml file where...

David H Nebinger | Jun 27, 2015 12:48 AM

Let me say that again: Content Creation is Not a Development Activity! Pretty strong statement, but for for those considering Liferay as a platform it's really an important concept, one that lives...