Blogs

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....

Iván Zaera Avellón | Oct 2, 2017 1:58 PM

Dear Liferay Developers: We would like to share with you a new feature we have been working in very hard during the last months. As we all know, Liferay Portal’s current support for frontend...

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...

Sandeep Sapra | Sep 29, 2017 7:11 AM

Introduction Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) provides feature to integrate with Corporate Single Sign on Server (SSO). SAML can be used to establish the same. This article laid down the...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Sep 25, 2017 9:21 PM

Hidden Features of Liferay Faces: The nativeWhenMobile Attribute of alloy:inputDate and alloy:inputTime One of my favorite lesser-known features of Liferay Faces Alloy is the the nativeWhenMobile...

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...

Dániel Jávorszky | Sep 4, 2017 8:42 AM

Update: The below is not the recommended way of waiting for services in Liferay DXP. To do it the way it should be done, please check the following documentation:...

Pradeep Sharma | Aug 25, 2017 6:55 PM

Hello Fellow Liferay Folks, Today I am writing this blog as I found there is no proper complete set of step by step to configure SSL Liferay DXP server and fellow developer has to spend hours and...

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...

sejal patel | Aug 16, 2017 10:36 AM

Liferay provides the screenlets, which are the readymade screen for the faster android app development for Liferay apps. Liferay Screens for Android contains several Screenlets that you can use in...

Jan Verweij | Aug 11, 2017 2:27 PM

If you are working at a company where a lot of content is produced you will recognize this problem. How can I make sure that the content is always tagged AND in a consistent way. If you think...

Andrea Tamás | Aug 11, 2017 9:14 AM

Ambrózy Gábor (Amby) a Liferay budapesti irodájának support menedzsere. Vízióval érkezett a céghez és azóta, csapatával megosztva ezt a látomást, változatos és izgalmas projektek segítségével...

Ashley Yuan | Aug 7, 2017 4:31 AM

3.1.1 GA 2 and Installers Released Hello all, We have pushed a new release of Liferay IDE, Liferay Developer Studio version 3.1.1 GA2 and Liferay Workspace Installer 1.5.0.1. Liferay IDE 3.1.1 GA2...

Andy Wu | Aug 4, 2017 5:51 AM

Hey all, I would like to let everyone know that Liferay IDE which bundles Buildship 2.1.1 can be installed into Eclipse Oxygen(4.7) now. We released 3.1.0 ga1 about two weeks ago. But it can’t...

Jia Terry | Aug 1, 2017 7:37 AM

Today, I’d like to show new feature in Liferay IDE: Error Reporter. Version: Liferay IDE/Liferay Developer Studio 3.1.1(unrelease). When you are using Liferay IDE, once you meet any exceptions or...

Ahamed Hasan | Jul 31, 2017 9:42 AM

Introduction: Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers who just need virtual private servers. Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly...

Ben Turner | Jul 31, 2017 1:50 AM

As a companion piece to Eduardo Garcia's excellent Divide and Conquer blog post I thought it would be worthwhile writing up some reasons, from more of business, usability and flexibility...

Jonas Choi | Jul 28, 2017 9:17 PM

The other day I posted a blog entry about LDAP settings in 7.0/DXP and how generating the hash values precludes the ability to have the files configured without having to go into the UI. You can...

Vikash Kumar | Jul 27, 2017 12:08 PM

#set ($serviceContext = $portal.getClass().forName("com.liferay.portal.service.ServiceContextThreadLocal").getServiceContext()) #set ($httpServletRequest = $serviceContext.getRequest()) ...

Jonas Choi | Jul 26, 2017 9:29 PM

There are a great number of changes in Liferay 7.0/DXP, and one of them is how LDAP settings are managed when dealing with configuration files. In 6.2 and earlier, one could simply copy all the...

ANKIT SRIVASTAVA | Jul 24, 2017 1:37 PM

During my last LIUG presentation on this topic, many participants showed interest in this tool and they wanted to try this in their enviornment. I am writing this blog for beginners, who want to...

Ahamed Hasan | Jul 20, 2017 7:28 PM

AUI Input Field Custom Validation Offlate, i have been working on some serious devolopment using Liferay 7 DXP. Having delivered close to half a dozen corporate training programs on Liferay 7 DXP...

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...

Santiago Pérez de la Cámara | Jul 19, 2017 11:32 AM

Versiones en las que se se ha probado el contenido de este post: Liferay CE 7.0 GA4 / 7.0 GA5 Liferay IDE 3.1.1 GA2 / 3.1.2 GA3 Creación de Liferay Workspace En caso de no tener el workspace...

Andrew Jardine | Jul 17, 2017 7:16 PM

I think before we get rolling here I need to first admit that blogging about 6.2 features and functions is maybe not the best practice since we should all be planning our move to 7 in preparation...

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....

ANKIT SRIVASTAVA | Jul 3, 2017 4:45 PM

There might be cases when you want to write your own CAS (Custom authentication Service) for authenticating users in Liferay. There are many cases like : authenticating users based on different...

Carlos Hernandez | Jul 3, 2017 10:07 AM

Wouldn't it be nice to take pictures with my mobile phone and let Liferay categorize / organise these pictures for me? Imagine how powerful it would be if I am on a business trip and I take lots...

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")...

gulnaaz Shaik | Jun 16, 2017 11:31 AM

Installations: Need to download and install the following for a workspace : Eclipse Neon with IDE - 3.1.0 Liferay Plugins ce sdk 7.0- ga3 Liferay Portal ce 7.0-ga3(tomcat) Now configure workspace...

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...

Takeo Yasuyuki | Jun 13, 2017 5:09 AM

What's Damascus? Damascus generates scaffoldings of *-service, *-api and *-web bundles with CRUD functionality and integrating other Liferay related functionality based on a configuration,...

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...

Cody Hoag | May 30, 2017 2:29 PM

If you're interested in providing Staging and/or Export/Import support for your application, you must create Staged Models to track your app's entities and Data Handlers to share information about...

Andrea Tamás | May 26, 2017 11:54 AM

Borkuti Pétert, a Liferay Hungary UI Technical Support Engineer-jét faggattam, aki a jóga elkötelezett híve és robotikai ismereteivel színesíti kollégái mindennapjait. *** Tanári pályán...

Ashley Yuan | May 25, 2017 2:54 AM

3.1 Beta 1 and Installers Released Hello all, We IDE team are pleased to announce the new release of Liferay IDE, Liferay Developer Studio: version 3.1 Beta1, and Liferay Workspace Installer...

Santiago Pérez de la Cámara | May 19, 2017 11:30 AM

Versiones a las que se puede aplicar este post: Liferay CE 7.0 GA3 / Liferay CE 7.0 GA4 Liferay Plugins SDK 7.0 GA3 / Liferay Plugins SDK 7.0 GA4 Previo a la instalación de Liferay Plugins SDK 7...

Minhchau Dang | May 18, 2017 11:03 PM

When a new intern onboards in the LAX office, their first step is to build Liferay from source. As a side-effect of that, usually the person that handles the intern onboarding will see that the...

ANKIT SRIVASTAVA | May 18, 2017 5:10 PM

As we all know, Liferay 7 (DXP) come with new features/improvements including functional/architectural. One of them is forms which is an improved version of Kaleo Forms, DDL. Kaleo forms and DDL is...

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...