Blogs

YOGESH CHANDRA | Oct 8, 2025 3:42 PM

1. Introduction: Why It’s Time to Rethink Themes Most Liferay customers upgrading from older versions (like DXP 7.1–7.4) face recurring challenges with traditional themes—performance bottlenecks,...

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...

Ben Turner | Sep 16, 2025 1:21 AM

Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone that was able to join either of our 2025.Q3 release webinars last week. Whether you were able to attend or not, but are interested in the content, I'm pleased to...

Hồ Nhật | Sep 13, 2025 11:42 AM

  1. Why choose AMIS instead of Form Fragments or pure Client Extension? When developing complex applications on Liferay, you can use the available Form Fragments or build a custom front-end...

Sukhvinder Singh | Sep 6, 2025 9:35 AM

Layout and composition are the foundation of effective page design. They make your pages easier to read, navigate, and maintain—resulting in a richer and more consistent user experience. With...

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...

David H Nebinger | Jun 12, 2025 4:11 PM

So recently I was working with a client, they were asking about a problem they were having. I started with my typical first question which is "What version of Liferay are you using?" Their...

David H Nebinger | Jun 6, 2025 2:21 PM

Just a short one today... So like every few months I either encounter a build error from RESTBuilder code, or someone asks me about it... Basically after generating RESTBuilder code, when you try...

David H Nebinger | May 14, 2025 2:23 PM

Introduction So anyone who knows me can tell you that I'm a huge fan of Custom Elements, especially when used with Liferay Objects. I prefer to use React for creating the front end and Objects for...

David H Nebinger | Mar 5, 2025 7:49 PM

So this is just a quick post inspired by an answer my friend Evan Thibodeau posted to a Liferay Community Slack question: Hi, how to develop admin applications (i.e. the ones that can be added and...

David H Nebinger | Jan 3, 2025 8:41 PM

A real quick one today so everyone is aware. The next releases of Liferay, DXP 2025.Q1 and CE GA 134, will be built using JDK 17. This means that JDKs 8 and 11 will not be an option at all. You'll...

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...

Victor Ware | Nov 26, 2024 8:15 PM

Earlier this year, Liferay announced our Java Evolution beginning with runtime support for Java 17 and 21. As we wrap up the year, we wanted to share an update on how our evolution is going and...

David H Nebinger | Nov 25, 2024 6:14 PM

Introduction For a long time now Private Pages have been deprecated by Liferay... From a platform perspective, they are really a pain. A site can be made up of two different kinds of pages, public...

Jeffrey Handa | Nov 11, 2024 10:11 AM

Background As the saying goes, the only constant in life is change and while I’m sure Heraclitus wasn’t thinking about software development back in 500 BC, it applies equally as well to Liferay...

Daniel Martinez Cisneros | Nov 6, 2024 9:46 AM

This article provides the necessary steps to configure Cross-Cluster Replication (CCR) for Elasticsearch with Liferay on a local machine. By following this guide, you’ll simulate the behavior of...

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,...

David H Nebinger | Oct 10, 2024 3:43 PM

Just a quick one today that will hopefully save you some time if you hit this yourself... I'm updating a workspace to use JDK-21 (it was previously working fine w/ JDK-11). When I started Tomcat, I...

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 | Oct 1, 2024 7:34 PM

Introduction Goodbye MySQL? No, don't worry, Liferay isn't dropping support for MySQL, don't start panicking just yet. Liferay has been transitioning new PaaS and new/existing SaaS systems from...

Mohammed Yasin | Sep 28, 2024 10:38 AM

Liferay Objects has been one of the powerful features of Liferay. It provides codeless approach of building application. It provides headless api which can be used for accessing object entry data....

David H Nebinger | Sep 25, 2024 4:03 PM

Recently I was helping a client who seemed be under a DDOS attack... Analysis of traffic showed a large number of incoming requests that seemed to be doing searches for various expected keywords....

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 | Sep 14, 2024 12:45 PM

Introduction Welcome to the third installment in our series about creating and importing products into Liferay DXP.  In this series we're taking a step-by-step approach that covers all of the...

David H Nebinger | Sep 13, 2024 5:19 AM

Everyone loves a bug bounty program, right? Well I want to launch an unofficial bug bounty program today! What are we looking for? Bugs related to performing builds using JDK17 and/or JDK21. So...

David H Nebinger | Sep 11, 2024 1:54 AM

If you're looking for the simplified process, you can skip ahead by clicking here. Introduction Lately my focus has been on development of React applications consuming Liferay Headless APIs. When...

David H Nebinger | Sep 6, 2024 6:58 PM

Introduction So I've been a developer for a long time (longer than I care to admit). When I started, being a developer actually meant you had to wear many hats, one of which has included database...

Jeffrey Handa | Aug 23, 2024 12:04 PM

Introduction Welcome back to the second part of our series about creating and importing products with Liferay.  In the previous post, we talked about getting started with the Minium accelerator and...

Lohita Sagar Mishra | Aug 14, 2024 6:06 AM

CONTENT & EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT Content management features provide support for creating and managing structured web content and digital assets for developers and business users, including a modern...

David H Nebinger | Aug 9, 2024 3:21 PM

Happy Friday! Short blog post today since I've just found out that the Liferay IDE and the Liferay Developer Studio (LDS) have both been updated!...

Jeffrey Handa | Aug 5, 2024 8:12 PM

Introduction In a previous post and follow-up, I provided some background on using Liferay's Batch APIs to import products. I realize that for anyone that is new to Liferay's commerce capabilities...

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...

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...

David H Nebinger | Jul 2, 2024 7:06 PM

Introduction So we have a public repo we've been using to train developers on Liferay, but we're using HSQL. We did this on purpose because we couldn't guarantee that developers would have a common...

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...

David H Nebinger | Jun 24, 2024 11:01 PM

A short blog post for today... I haven't apparently been blogging much in the last two months. Except that's not really true. I have 5 blog posts that have been waiting to be published that I can't...

David H Nebinger | Jun 24, 2024 6:30 PM

Introduction So Liferay has released Liferay DXP 7.4 2024 Q2 and Liferay CE 2024 GA 120, but along with this came a bunch of other updates that affect developers. These include: Blade 7.0.0 Gradle...

Victor Ware | Jun 12, 2024 9:09 PM

Java 8 was released to the world in March 2014. For the last decade, Liferay has been creating tools for users to build crafted, powerful solutions leveraging the Java 8 ecosystem. Even though we...

David H Nebinger | May 16, 2024 2:47 AM

Just a short one today... I happened to be researching Object Validations and I saw an interesting note posted here:...

David H Nebinger | May 10, 2024 6:45 PM

So I was starting a new workspace yesterday, issued my normal command: $ blade init projectname Error: The command init is missing required parameters. The following option is required: [-v |...

David H Nebinger | Apr 24, 2024 1:19 PM

Liferay is busy working on updating the Node version used by the Gradle plugins in the Gradle Workspace from Node 16.13.0 (or 16.15.1 depending upon where you look) to Node 20.12.2. I'm told that...

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 16, 2024 4:25 PM

Introduction I was recently asked whether it is possible to migrate from HCL DX™ to Liferay DXP. I think the expected response was "no", because they seemed shocked when I said it was possible....

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 25, 2024 6:59 PM

Introduction I recently advocated for the demise of the specialized Liferay IDEs/IDE Plugins. Advocating for them to be decommissioned is one thing, but sharing how you can live without them can be...

David H Nebinger | Mar 22, 2024 3:47 PM

History of the Liferay IDEs I first started developing for Liferay version 4.2.3. Back then, we used what was called the "extension environment" to handle Liferay customization. This was an...

David H Nebinger | Mar 19, 2024 3:42 PM

I have to start with an apology. I'm publishing this blog early because parts are ready to go now but some parts are not yet ready. I felt it was too important to hold off waiting for the final...

David H Nebinger | Mar 18, 2024 6:55 PM

Hey, so in my blog last week, I indicated that I had the following in my portal-ext.properties file: session.timeout=15 session.timeout.auto.extend=true session.timeout.warning=0...

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 | Mar 14, 2024 7:15 PM

Liferay released Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 this week, and in the corresponding release notes, you'll find the following nugget. Just search for "Java JDK 11 Runtime" to find in the notes, but here's the...

David H Nebinger | Mar 12, 2024 6:44 PM

In case you missed it, Liferay has announced the deprecation of Websphere for Liferay DXP 7.4. The official announcement was made here: https://support.liferay.com/release-notes/2023-q4, scroll...

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...

David H Nebinger | Feb 29, 2024 5:01 PM

So this has come up a couple of times recently, so after some research I thought I'd share the news. In 7.4, built-in support for ClamAV has been removed, and Liferay has no current plans on...

David H Nebinger | Feb 8, 2024 2:44 PM

Introduction Recently my friend and coworker Andrew Jardine and I were together in Rome for a Liferay Partner event where we were part of a round table discussion about all things Liferay. Even...

Daniel Dias | Feb 5, 2024 2:51 PM

Introduction GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and a range of collaboration and project...

Wes Kempa | Jan 23, 2024 7:20 PM

What an exciting time to be working in the technology field! We have so many great tools available to us that can benefit everyone. Generative AI (GenAI) is a perfect example of an amazing set of...

Tibor Lipusz | Dec 14, 2023 10:43 AM

Features Multiple Reindex Modes: Full Reindex, Concurrent Reindex (Blue/Green), and Sync Reindex. High Availability: Continuous service during reindexing operations with select modes. System...

David H Nebinger | Dec 7, 2023 8:59 PM

Introduction This post originated from a couple of different client questions... First was a seemingly simple question from a client: How do I use Service Builder to connect to an external database...