Blogs

Fabian Bouché | May 2, 2025 9:43 AM

In this blog, I'd like to show you how you can not only monitor real time HTTP requests but also transactions running in the background. Short introduction - Glowroot Since 2023.q4, Glowroot has...

Gabriel Prates | Apr 28, 2025 10:07 AM

The reason behind the idea In a world of Frontend Client Extensions deployed in SaaS environments, we can have a lot of fun and be creative to develop the best solutions our projects and customers...

Marco Leo | Apr 23, 2025 5:07 PM

To our valued Liferay Open Source Community, Over the past two years, Liferay has implemented significant changes to our product release strategy. These adjustments, moving from a weekly to a...

Mahmoud Hussein Tayem | Apr 13, 2025 4:26 PM

In many Liferay projects, front-end developers often work with design mockups, static HTML pages, or existing UI prototypes. Rebuilding these into Liferay fragments and Client Extensions can be...

Christian Hofstätter | Apr 10, 2025 6:51 PM

If you haven't heard of or used workflow automation tools like n8n, you should take a few minutes of your day to have a quick look. It'll easily save you hours, days, and eventually weeks of your...

Bryce Osterhaus | Apr 10, 2025 10:28 AM

As of LPD-48372, the amd-loader has officially been deprecated in Liferay DXP. That means it’s no longer enabled by default—and with that, so ends the era of liferay-npm-bundler and amd-loader. But...

Anderson Perrelli | Apr 4, 2025 1:38 PM

Introduction You probably read the title of this article and thought, "finally, my friendly URL problems are solved!". And in part, you're right! The idea here is to share a "cake recipe" to...

Christian Hofstätter | Mar 27, 2025 8:12 PM

Introduction After playing with Go for the last few days and wanting to check out Microservice Client Extensions (MCEs), I decided to put up this starter project on Github and write my first blog...

David H Nebinger | Mar 26, 2025 3:13 PM

Introduction On March 18th, 2025, Liferay sent an email to clients and partners outlining the roadmap for migrating from Java EE to Jakarta EE that is coming in the 2025.Q3 release. It’s a...

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 | Feb 27, 2025 8:08 PM

Introduction In my first post, Goodbye MySQL, Hello PostgreSQL, I shared that after a lot of practical research, Liferay had decided to move their cloud platforms off of MySQL and onto PostgreSQL...

RISHI KUMAR | Feb 26, 2025 5:23 AM

What are Frontend Client Extensions? Frontend Client Extensions are like skins that overlay the core functionality, adding extra features and enhancing the appearance. They function like Oxygen OS...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 21, 2025 5:46 PM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

Chris Mount | Jan 16, 2025 12:20 AM

Recently, a number of customers encountered build failures in their JavaScript-based Liferay portlets or modules. The issue was the result of a node module version not being pinned or specified. My...

David H Nebinger | Jan 9, 2025 3:58 PM

So I wasn't planning on writing this blog today, but it is hitting a lot of people and I'm sure there's going to be a slew of reported issues on this, so I felt I should get the word out... If you...

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...

Álvaro Saugar López | Dec 25, 2024 10:46 PM

Esta entrada de blog también está disponible en Español It has been 7 years since the beginning of this second season of the LUGSpain community and four since the last article we published...

Álvaro Saugar López | Dec 25, 2024 10:17 PM

This blog entry is also available in English Han pasado 7 años del comienzo de esta segunda etapa de la comunidad LUGSpain y cuatro desde el último artículo que publicamos haciendo un repaso de lo...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | Dec 23, 2024 11:38 AM

Esta entrada de blog también está disponible en Español Working with Java applications that use native thread pools, one of the limitations we may encounter is the lack of built-in tools to monitor...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | Dec 23, 2024 10:28 AM

This blog entry is also available in English Cuando trabajamos con aplicaciones Java que utilizan pools de hilos nativos, una de las limitaciones que podemos encontrar es la falta de herramientas...

Eric DARIEL | Dec 20, 2024 4:24 PM

Hello everybody, A small post to explain how to create a vanilla javascript native fragment in Liferay in few minutes. I want to create a small animation for this winter... a Snow Flakes animation...

Jamie Sammons | Dec 13, 2024 11:06 PM

Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited...

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 7:47 PM

Just a quick one today... So I'm working on some Client Extensions and wanted to see the impact that deployment would have across virtual instances. FWIW, CX are only supposed to affect the virtual...

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 4:11 PM

So this past summer a number of my Office Hours sessions had to be cancelled. All I really said at the time was that I was sorry about cancelling the sessions and that I was busy traveling. And you...

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...

Matheus Monteiro | Oct 10, 2024 1:07 PM

When developing custom code or portlets, it's common to work with sensitive data like passwords, client secrets, or API keys. For example, when you're configuring OAuth2 to authorize a request in...

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 6:16 PM

My good friend Andrew Jardine has started upgrading his Mastering Liferay site, currently on 7.1, and he's going to be upgrading it to the latest 7.4. However, he recently was blessed with a new M3...

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...

Vinoth Kumar | Sep 14, 2024 2:15 PM

We may face some scenario to execute a process which might consume JVM memory and keeps the web page loading when dealing with large tasks like file uploads. Liferay has BackgroundTaskExecutor...

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...