Blogs

Jamie Sammons | May 8, 2018 9:31 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Alpha 2 Download Now! Alpha 2 primarily focuses on being a bug fix release. List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 Alpha 2...

David H Nebinger | May 4, 2018 2:23 PM

When you are upgrading to DXP on SQL Server, it is recommended to set the following property in the portal-upgrade-ext.properties file: verify.process.concurrency.threshold=10000 Otherwise you can...

Ashley Yuan | Apr 18, 2018 6:04 AM

New Installers Released Hello all, We are pleased to announce a new release of Liferay Project SDK 2018.4.4 installer, Liferay Project SDK with Dev Studio Community Edition installer and...

David H Nebinger | Apr 17, 2018 3:12 AM

Introduction So in any production system, there is typically a desire to capture metrics, use them to define a system health check, and then monitor the health check results from an APM tool to...

David H Nebinger | Apr 16, 2018 2:26 PM

Introduction I have never liked one aspect of Liferay logging - it is not persistent. For example, I can't debug a startup issue unless I get the portal-log4j-ext.xml file set up and out there. Not...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 12, 2018 10:51 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Alpha 1 Download Now! We announced the Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program on February 19th alongside our first 7.1...

Neil Griffin | Apr 11, 2018 3:15 PM

I'm happy to report that according to the following graph from Maven Central, the download stats for Liferay Faces are trending upward. In fact, our downloads have approximately doubled with an...

David H Nebinger | Apr 10, 2018 4:08 AM

Introduction Recently I was building a fragment bundle to expose a private package per my blog entry, . In the original bnd.bnd file, I found the following: -dsannotations-options: inherit Not...

David H Nebinger | Apr 7, 2018 3:33 PM

Introduction So once you've been doing some Liferay OSGi development, you'll recognize your component properties stanza, most commonly applied to a typical portlet class: @Component( immediate =...

Iacopo Colonnelli | Apr 7, 2018 12:40 PM

Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA6 Release was announced about 2 weeks ago and Liferay containerisers may desire to upgrade their Docker container to the new Liferay version. Well, this is a not so hard...

David H Nebinger | Apr 6, 2018 1:01 AM

Just a quick blog post to talk about compile time vs runtime dependencies in the OSGi container, inspired by this thread:...

David H Nebinger | Mar 28, 2018 2:48 PM

Introduction On a project recently I had a Theme war and, like those themes you can download from the MarketPlace, I also had pages, contents and documents imported by the Resources Importer (RI)...

Jamie Sammons | Mar 27, 2018 4:47 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA6! Download Now! What’s New Bug Fixes - Liferay 7 Portal CE GA6 is mainly a bug fix release and contains over 800...

David H Nebinger | Mar 23, 2018 6:28 PM

This one is for my good friend Milen... Sometimes he frustrates me, but he always forces me to think... Introduction So if you've done any Liferay 7.x CE or DXP development, you may have...

Olaf Kock | Mar 19, 2018 10:00 AM

An episode on the "Per" things: Performance and Permissions. I spoke to Preston Crary, who amazingly was not mad at me for losing an earlier recording. We're talking about these (and more) topics...

David Gomez | Mar 13, 2018 11:40 PM

Everyone wants to see Liferay Portal in their native language, and version 7.1 will support up to 45 different languages. On the road to the release of Liferay 7.1 we are launching the Community...

David H Nebinger | Mar 7, 2018 12:42 AM

Introduction So originally I presented the blog post, Fronting Liferay Tomcat with Apache HTTPd daemon, but that post featured my partiality for using mod_jk to connect HTTPd and Tomcat. Personally...

David H Nebinger | Mar 7, 2018 12:19 AM

A good friend of mine, Minhchau Dang, pointed out to me that I have frequently used OSGi version ranges in my blogs. I explained that I was concerned that I didn't want to bind to a specific...

David H Nebinger | Feb 23, 2018 8:35 PM

So the question comes up how to do Liferay upgrades. I'm not talking here about the technical details of how you upgrade one particular plugin to another type of plugin, what kinds of API changes...

Jonas Choi | Feb 23, 2018 6:21 PM

Tomcat 8.5 is an in-between version of Apache Tomcat 8.0 and 9.0. According to the Apache site, it contains some features in 9.0 that have been backported to 8.0. This version of Tomcat is...