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Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:20 PM

Overview Liferay Portal uses many internal (Spring) services and equivalent web services (SOAP, Rest/JSON) to implement many functions. Many of these services require passing a company ID or portal...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:16 PM

Overview A problem we someetimes face with our Liferay Portal enterprise (EE) customers is configuring and resolving data sync issues across nodes in a cluster. Thsi article provides some tips and...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:13 PM

Overview This article outlines a process to resolve Liferay Portal patch collisions with custom portal plugins Background The Liferay Patching Tool can be used to patch a Liferay Portal 6.1 or 6.2...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:09 PM

Overview Sometimes ... things do not go to plan when using mail (email) in Liferay Portal. However you can quickly find the cause by logging the outbound mail message. You can enable additional...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 3:05 PM

Overview Patching info for the Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) may be identified using the Liferay Portal patching tool natively or via the Patching Tool Info plugin in the Control Panel....

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 2:58 PM

Overview This brief article outlines a high level solution for using the Liferay SAML 2.0 EE Provider plugin as the SAML SP in a clustered node environment. The solution extends from using Liferay...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 2:53 PM

Overview The article outlines configuration for tracing the Liferay SAML 2.0 Provider EE plugin (SAML plugin). The SAML plugin enables Liferay Portal 6.2 EE to act as a SAML Service Provider (SP)...

Tim Telcik | Apr 21, 2018 2:48 PM

Overview According to Wikipedia, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), pronounced "sam-el" is, "... an XML-based, open-standard data format for exchanging authentication and authorization...

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...

Dennis Ju | Apr 16, 2018 9:01 PM

May 25 is fast approaching. Every business impacted by GDPR should be well underway in preparing for the changes to data processing set forth by the regulation. To address the heightened...

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...

Minhchau Dang | Apr 10, 2018 1:05 AM

When you compare a CE release with an EE release, you'll find that there are a few additional modules that are only available in EE releases. In Liferay terms, these are called "private" modules....

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)...