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David H Nebinger | Aug 20, 2016 6:35 AM

Introduction In part 3 of the blog, the API for the Filesystem Access project was flushed out. In this part of the blog, we'll create the service implementation module. The Data Transfer Object Now...

David H Nebinger | Aug 20, 2016 1:32 AM

Introduction In part 2 of the series we created our initial project modules for the Filesystem Access Portlet project. In part 3, we're going to move on to flushing out the DS service that will...

Marcos Castro | Aug 16, 2016 11:59 AM

Hi everyone! A week ago we started the new serie of blog entries about our new themes for Liferay 7. Today, we gladly present you our second theme: Westeros Bank: "A bank case" The Westeros...

Jamie Sammons | Aug 15, 2016 6:37 PM

I am pleased to announce the release of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA3! [Download Now] What's New Overriding LPKG Files: A while back I wrote a blog entry on patching OSGi modules. The original...

Javeed Chida | Aug 13, 2016 10:30 PM

The Glorious Simplicity of Structure Inheritance This field (highlighted yellow) on a structure editing screen is what I am talking about. When I first saw the words Parent Structure there, the...

Marcos Castro | Aug 5, 2016 11:23 AM

Hi everyone! For a long time themes have been one of the most required features in Liferay, and as we announced during last year, Liferay 7 will be a game changer. This will be the first out of...

Olaf Kock | Aug 5, 2016 10:17 AM

Liferay comes with so many features that it's hard to judge when a feature is a good solution for a given problem. I'd like to shine some light onto some of these features and common misconceptions...

David H Nebinger | Aug 5, 2016 1:22 AM

Introduction In part 1, the filesystem access portlet project for Liferay 7 was introduced. In this part, we're going to use Blade and Gradle to set up our basic project structure. We're not going...

David H Nebinger | Aug 5, 2016 12:27 AM

Introduction So I've been doing some LR7 development recently. It's an exciting and challenging platform to get your head around and I thought I would just work up an example portlet, spread it...

Bryan H Cheung | Jul 18, 2016 11:11 PM

Today I’m writing to announce that we are discontinuing support for Liferay Connected Services and Audience Targeting for Liferay Portal 7 Community. The main factor behind the decision was the...

Jamie Sammons | Jul 14, 2016 7:43 PM

I wanted to share some testing that I have been doing in terms of patching OSGi modules and adding the patched modules to your own Liferay installations. One of the many benefits to modularity is...

David H Nebinger | Jul 14, 2016 3:51 AM

So I'm a long-time supporter of ServiceBuilder. I saw its purpose way back on Liferay 4 and 5 and have championed it in the forums and here in my blog. With the release of Liferay 7,...

Maarten van Heiningen | Jul 13, 2016 8:26 PM

This blog is part of a series of entries on Mobile First with Liferay Screens. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Mobile First with Liferay Screens Mobile has changed the world and will go on doing...

David H Nebinger | Jul 7, 2016 3:55 AM

It's going to happen. At some point in your LR7 development, you're going to build a module which has runtime dependencies. How do you satisfy those dependencies though? In this brief blog entry...

Neil Griffin | Jul 6, 2016 7:45 PM

UPDATE: September 2, 2016 - Visit www.liferayfaces.org for a convenient web page that helps you determine your archetype:generate command and/or required dependencies. The Liferay Faces team is...

Dave Truong | Jul 6, 2016 12:30 AM

There's been some confusion over state of Maven support for Liferay. As the Product Manager for Developer Tools, I feel responsible for the confusion and felt the need to clear up any questions....

Javeed Chida | Jun 29, 2016 6:14 AM

I came across the idea of a generic template recently, and put it to good use. If you don't know what I mean by generic template, let me clear that up right away. A generic template is really...

Daniel Tyger | Jun 15, 2016 11:15 PM

We recently had a request for our users to be able to check if their email address has been a victim of a known data breach per the awesome API and data stores provided at...

deveshree zawar | Jun 9, 2016 10:09 AM

Plugin is the core of Liferay portal development in its various forms. “Plug-in” as the word enunciates is an add-on to perform additional features. It can be blended into an application to enhance...

Zeno Rocha | Jun 3, 2016 7:14 PM

If you have been in touch with the Liferay community in the past years, you've probably heard about Senna.js before. We first introduced this project in late 2014 and since then we've been...

Jose M. Navarro | May 30, 2016 10:21 PM

Lately, we’ve being working on an event tracking system for Liferay Screens. Nothing fancy: just another Flurry or Google Analytics for mobile apps. The best part is the information collected will...

Jamie Sammons | May 27, 2016 4:43 PM

I am pleased to announce the release of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA2! [Download] What's New Inline Image Editor: The new image editor allows for simple image editing directly from within Liferay...

Allen Ziegenfus | May 24, 2016 10:45 AM

Liferay DDLs are quite useful for dealing with small sets of custom data, for which it would be overkill to create a new service. Our event microsites use DDLs extensively for displaying speaker,...

Marcos Castro | May 23, 2016 11:02 PM

Hey guys, today I am going to speak about a concurrent topic, how to replace Bootstrap 2.3.2 CSS in Liferay 6.2 for new Bootstrap 3.x, I have received a lot of questions about it, and I helped all...

Willem Vermeer | May 19, 2016 8:10 PM

While preparing for our annual Dutch Liferay User group meeting I tried to develop a simple MVC portlet accessing the Liferay 7 API. Somehow this took more time than I had expected - probably...

Javeed Chida | May 18, 2016 8:22 PM

If you've been using the Liferay CMS, you are probably familiar with a journal article's Categorization tab wherein you can specify the tags and the categories for the journal article. If you...

Cody Hoag | May 16, 2016 5:37 PM

Our inaugural Community Javadoc Contest officially ended last week, and we received some really good submissions. Luckily, there were two clear-cut winners, so the process of choosing our champions...

Neil Griffin | May 13, 2016 11:01 PM

The Liferay Faces team is moving closer towards the goal of releasing a JSF portlet bridge (and associated demos) for use with Liferay Portal 7.0 CE. Since this new version of the portal utilizes...

Javeed Chida | May 12, 2016 4:33 PM

I recently presented this to a group of non-technical users. The feedback was positive, and made me think this may be useful to others. Why did I make this presentation? I put this little...

Bryan H Cheung | May 3, 2016 7:31 AM

The internet has changed the way we live because it gives everyone an equal voice in a global conversation. No matter who you are or where you live, you can make yourself heard, whether by...

Greg Amerson | Apr 29, 2016 5:10 PM

The latest stable version of Liferay IDE 3.0.0 GA1 that supports Liferay 7 and OSGi/modular development has been released. For those that have installed Liferay IDE stable version, if you are...

Olaf Kock | Apr 22, 2016 5:24 PM

Today I'm welcoming a repeat guest and a new one: Jim Hinkey (of episode 21 fame) and Cody Hoag - both from Liferay's documentation and knowledge management team. This episode has unfortunately...

Javeed Chida | Apr 10, 2016 1:32 PM

I've been busy building web application content. A simple form with three fields Under the form, a table shows the previously added records The data in the table can grow to several hundred Blah...

Bryan H Cheung | Apr 7, 2016 6:55 PM

Today I’d like to let you know that Liferay Portal 7 Community does not have "out of the box" support for clustering, non-open source app servers (Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere), and non-open...

Olaf Kock | Apr 5, 2016 8:18 AM

Yay - Liferay 7 CE is out. As the exploration begins, I'm sure everybody first looks for their pet peeves. There's something that's been nagging me in 6.1 and 6.2 - and unfortunately I couldn't get...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 4, 2016 5:04 PM

Today Liferay released the next version of its flagship software: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE! [Download] [Quick Start] After many months of hard work from the Liferay product and engineering teams...

Neil Griffin | Mar 31, 2016 7:57 PM

The Liferay Faces team has been working hard on a variety of tasks, including: Support for JSF OSGi portlets with Liferay Portal 7.0 CE Maturing the source in our New Git Repositories Finalizing...

Angela Wu | Mar 31, 2016 7:14 PM

Get to the Heart of Customer Experience Customers expect meaningful interaction at every digital touchpoint with your company. How can you align modern technologies with customer interactions in a...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 21, 2016 10:15 PM

A little while ago I ran into a strange problem at a customer. We had written a hook that contained a small REST service that accepts a multipart POST to import a document and some related...

Jan Eerdekens | Mar 20, 2016 7:34 PM

After building a hook that wraps the FakeSMTP application and a portlet that gives you file management capabilities in Liferay we now get to part 3 of the series: the CRaSH portlet. I must admit: I...