Blogs

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...