Blogs

Ashley Yuan | Jun 27, 2019 8:48 AM

Head over to this page for downloading Liferay IntelliJ 1.5.0 plugin. Release Highlights: Add support for development on Liferay 7.2 Update embedded blade to 3.7.0 Add index sources option in new...

Ashley Yuan | Jun 27, 2019 8:23 AM

New Liferay Project SDK Installers and Developer Studio 3.6.1 ga2 has been made available today. This new package is based on eclipse 2018-12 and support for eclipse Photon or greater. Download: ...

David Gomez | Jun 25, 2019 7:55 AM

We, as software developers, usually need to reach our users through different channels: from web sites to applications running on smart devices (smartphones, smartwatches, ...) or even through IoT...

David H Nebinger | Jun 18, 2019 7:15 PM

Quite some time ago I was working with a client that had built web service clients as OSGi modules and leveraged JAXB. During load testing, we found that after many hours of heavy use, the Liferay...

Olaf Kock | Jun 13, 2019 12:38 PM

If you're with Liferay for a while, you may remember the past incarnations of this article, and have dutifully waited for this repost, adapted to the latest versions, 7.2 CE and DXP 7.2. ;) What's...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 4, 2019 6:12 PM

Download Download now at: https://portal.liferay.dev/download New Features Summary Online Editing: Liferay 7.2 now allows for editing files online via Google Docs™, Google Sheets™, and Google...

David H Nebinger | May 31, 2019 9:35 PM

So if you've been monitoring your logs, it is quite possible you're seeing NoSuchLayoutExceptions related to browserconfig.xml. If you are seeing them, it's because your users are running IE 11 and...

David H Nebinger | May 25, 2019 1:09 AM

So recently I got to hang out with board members and officers of the OSGi Alliance, including Liferay's own Ray Auge. A great bunch of folks these guys are; they were easy to talk to and really...

David H Nebinger | May 25, 2019 12:00 AM

So just a quick post here about your Liferay build chain... It is easy, when you're starting out, to follow the instructions to install the Blade CLI or the Maven artifacts. It is also easy, even...

David H Nebinger | May 21, 2019 10:21 PM

Introduction So I'm not sure if you've had the chance to play around with the new Target Platform stuff that Liferay has, but it is really cool. If you haven't read about it or don't know what it...

David H Nebinger | May 21, 2019 1:36 PM

Liferay has a complete built-in scheduled job service which manages jobs that run on every node as well as single jobs that run in a cluster. Unfortunately there hasn't been a way to gain...

Jamie Sammons | May 21, 2019 12:45 AM

Download RC3 now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation Other files SourceForge Documentation Our documentation team is...

David H Nebinger | May 18, 2019 12:56 AM

The price for TripWire CE and TripWire DXP have been significantly reduced by 90%! TripWire is a control panel that compares each node in a cluster against a baseline. Any time there is a...

David H Nebinger | May 14, 2019 2:53 AM

So whenever I set up a new Liferay cluster, I get to the end and I ask myself, "How do I know it is working?" My standard test is to connect to a node of the cluster and view a page. Then I connect...

Jamie Sammons | May 13, 2019 7:16 PM

Overview Find a list of what’s included in the release in the Release Notes Download the release now New Features Summary Portlet 3.0 is fully implemented Documentation Official Documentation can...

David H Nebinger | May 9, 2019 3:49 AM

Introduction So for the longest time I have been an advocate of Liferay's logging API. Folks have asked how to use Log4J or other frameworks and I've always advised against it. Why? Well, for 3...

Jamie Sammons | May 7, 2019 3:51 AM

Note: Liferay Portal 7.2 CE RC1 was an internal release only. Download RC now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation...

Neil Griffin | May 3, 2019 7:17 PM

As shown in the chart below, the Portlet API had around 16,000 downloads/month a year ago, and is now close to 30,000 downloads/month and increasing. The breakdown shows that the Portlet 2.0 API is...

Neil Griffin | May 3, 2019 6:09 PM

Back in April of 2018 I posted a blog titled Liferay Faces downloads at an all time high in which I mentioned that Liferay Faces artifacts had surpassed 11,000 downloads/month. I'm pleased to...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 24, 2019 7:21 PM

Download Beta 3 now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation Other files SourceForge Documentation Our documentation team...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 17, 2019 6:20 PM

Download Beta 2 now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation Other files SourceForge Documentation Our documentation team...

Ruud Kluivers | Apr 17, 2019 9:32 AM

Recently we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Its been a hell of a ride and the internet has had a profound impact on our society and daily lives. You better brace yourself,...

Ashley Yuan | Apr 16, 2019 6:56 AM

Liferay IntelliJ 1.4.0 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Add support for debugging JSPs in Liferay modules (Ultimate Only) Inject...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 8, 2019 6:36 PM

Download Beta 1 now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation Other files SourceForge Documentation Our documentation team...

Eduardo P. García | Apr 6, 2019 5:00 PM

Personalization has become a key part of customer experience. Essentially, by tailoring content for individual users depending on their characteristics, preferences and behaviour, companies can...

David Gomez | Apr 5, 2019 10:28 AM

With the previous release of Liferay Portal 7.1, there was a significant change on the approach to author pages within Liferay Portal, developed under the “Modern Site Building” project. The...

David H Nebinger | Mar 26, 2019 5:45 PM

Introduction There are a lot of things that Liferay just won't say. They won't tell you what app server to use, won't tell you what framework to use, won't tell you how to deal with your production...

David H Nebinger | Mar 21, 2019 7:57 PM

Frameworks. We all use them, some of them we love, some of them we hate, but we use them. There are popular ones like Spring and Hibernate, not so popular ones like Guice and iBatis. Popularity...

Anderson Perrelli | Mar 19, 2019 2:34 PM

This article aims to deliver what you're really looking for, configure Search Enterprise. If you are looking for the smallest details and deeper information, my suggestion is the Elasticserach...

Milen Dyankov | Mar 12, 2019 9:10 PM

I know some of you have been disappointed by my last post about discontinuing the Liferay 7.2 Community Beta Program. I understand. It was also hard for us to let it go. But I do believe there is...

Travis Cory | Mar 11, 2019 11:08 PM

Your Liferay workspace is full of modules. Each module is starting to make use of the same JS resources and functions. Wouldn't it be nice if you could refactor your JS into a separate module that...

David H Nebinger | Feb 27, 2019 4:36 AM

Introduction Out of the box, Liferay DXP has fairly limited audit message output targets. In fact, there are only two that are provided: logging them or persisting to the database. Each of these...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 26, 2019 10:49 PM

Overview As many of you know, we announced that we were going to start the 7.2 Community Beta Program with the release of 7.2 Alpha 1. Since then we have come to the conclusion that bug reporting...

Olaf Kock | Feb 26, 2019 10:11 AM

It took me long enough to bring her on: She's followed Liferay's history for longer than some of the other founders: Caris Chan. And yes, that name means that she's Brian Chan's wife. During my...

Milen Dyankov | Feb 20, 2019 6:26 PM

About two weeks ago, Jamie Sammons announced that Liferay 7.2 Community Beta Program is scheduled to start with the release of 7.2 Alpha 1, which is just around the corner. We know there are some...

David H Nebinger | Feb 20, 2019 4:01 PM

Introduction In the earlier days of Liferay, many administrators missed the warning about not using HSQLDB in production. By default, Liferay is configured to use HSQLDB so you can spin up a...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Feb 18, 2019 3:34 PM

Liferay Faces Roadmap for Liferay Portal 7.2 Support (2019) For Liferay 7.2 support we have three major goals: 1. Support deployment of thin JSF WARs. Liferay Faces has always required that...

Olaf Kock | Feb 8, 2019 11:01 AM

The university content team is busy, and you can find a new full course on Liferay University. Upgrading Liferay This course starts at Liferay 6.2 and upgrades it all the way to 7.1. We're using...

Charles Wu | Feb 5, 2019 5:04 AM

If you are a new to liferay 7.x platform since liferay had migrate to OSGi platform, you must have meet the error Unresolved requirement: Import-Package when deploying your bundles, i have a easy...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 1, 2019 11:47 PM

The main purpose of this release is give you a sneak peak of what’s coming in 7.2 and to get an early start on testing our packaging process. It is by no means feature complete and hasn’t been...