Blogs

David H Nebinger | Dec 10, 2021 8:06 PM

Hey, all! There's a new zero-day vulnerability hitting the web right now, and it is affecting a lot of libraries and applications out there, including Liferay 7.4. Any app using Log4j2 is...

David H Nebinger | Nov 30, 2021 2:08 PM

Recently I started a new "Office Hours" session to occur every other Tuesday at 9am EST/10am EDT (14:00 UTC) and 4pm EST/5pm EDT (21:00 UTC) on a Zoom bridge. Here you can bring questions, ideas,...

David H Nebinger | Sep 18, 2021 12:30 AM

Introduction So when you start building your own fragments and using them on your content pages, you will often times run into an issue with propagation... So I like to create fragments for headers...

David H Nebinger | Aug 24, 2021 3:24 PM

Introduction I posted two blog posts this week, and each of them had a particular drawback - lack of cluster coordination. The first blog post on cluster-enabled upgrade processes introduced using...

David H Nebinger | Aug 24, 2021 5:11 AM

Just a quick one... I've just updated my Log Persister project for Liferay 7.3. You can find it under the 7.3 branch: https://github.com/dnebing/log-persist/tree/7.3 For those that aren't aware, I...

David H Nebinger | Aug 21, 2021 5:40 PM

I recently was helping a client with an upgrade process and that had run into a little problem... A few of the model hints were not updated on some of the columns in their Service Builder services...

David H Nebinger | Aug 16, 2021 4:15 AM

A really quick post to share something important with you React + Clay developers out there... A recent update to Clay had a breaking internal change. If after deploying your React portlet and you...

David H Nebinger | Aug 7, 2021 2:46 AM

Introduction In a recent blog I explained how to create a React-based portlet within your Liferay Gradle Workspace by using the js-widget Blade template which in turn uses the Yeoman Liferay JS...

Jamie Sammons | Aug 3, 2021 5:36 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 | Jul 21, 2021 6:13 AM

Introduction A client asked me to build a React portlet for them and I was like, "Oh Yeah!" I mean, it's been a while since I built a React portlet and tooling has really changed a lot since then,...

David H Nebinger | Jul 15, 2021 2:51 PM

Introduction So I was recently asked to help build a custom Liferay docker image for a client and there were some specific requirements such as: Should not contain hard-coded credentials, those...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 30, 2021 8:47 PM

The Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA8 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. Download options Choose the best download option suited for your...

David H Nebinger | Jun 17, 2021 6:27 PM

Introduction As many folks know, I'm known for telling people not to look inside the Liferay database itself. It's not always clear what is what in the DB and Liferay has a lot of code around...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 15, 2021 4:20 PM

Announcing Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA2 We’re excited to continue expanding and improving upon the Liferay Commerce product. The latest version of Commerce offers some minor SEO improvements and many...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 15, 2021 4:17 PM

Announcing Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA2 Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA2 marks the second major release in the 7.4 release cycle. Although released later than hoped, Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA2 continues...

David H Nebinger | Jun 8, 2021 3:34 AM

So some time ago I wrote the Cluster Details marketplace plugin. Basically you drop this guy into all of your Liferay clusters and you get a nifty little control panel that tells you details about...

David H Nebinger | Jun 4, 2021 11:11 PM

Introduction Recently I asked some of my teammates for ideas about what to blog about next. Most of the time I take my inspiration from different clients I work with or questions that come up on...

David H Nebinger | May 18, 2021 3:06 AM

Introduction Historically developers have always wanted to be able to control site creation. It's not that Liferay admins are untrusted or anything like that. It is really more the case where...

David H Nebinger | May 14, 2021 3:10 AM

Introduction Liferay has, for a long time, supported RBAC, the role-based access control. It is, of course, backed by the database so (inheritance aside for the moment) a user will be assigned a...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 26, 2021 9:20 PM

Announcing Liferay Commerce 4.0 We’re excited to continue expanding and improving upon the Liferay Commerce product. The latest version of Commerce offers improvements in data integration and...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 26, 2021 8:25 PM

Announcing Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 marks the first major release in the 7.4 release cycle. Although released later than hoped, Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 continues...

David H Nebinger | Apr 21, 2021 5:07 PM

Introduction One of the great advantages I have being known in the community is really the opportunity to meet, talk and work with talented developers and teams. Recently the team at ACSoftware...

David H Nebinger | Apr 12, 2021 10:29 PM

Introduction So recently a couple of times I've seen folks ask how to send form data somewhere. Some want to trigger remote web service calls, some want to store the data in a different entity or...

David H Nebinger | Apr 8, 2021 4:04 PM

Introduction Let me start by saying that I'm a huge fan of Upgrade Processes. I've actually written many blogs about Upgrade Processes or using Upgrade Processes:...

Jamie Sammons | Mar 8, 2021 9:33 PM

The Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA7 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. Work continues on Liferay Portal CE 7.4 GA1 so look forward to...

David H Nebinger | Feb 13, 2021 6:50 PM

Introduction As of yet, there has been no official word that JDK 11 is supported by the Liferay developer tools. Just like the old delays going from JDK 7 to JDK 8, various third party tools and...

David H Nebinger | Feb 4, 2021 7:31 PM

What is the Mega-Jar? So the Liferay Dev Tools team recently included a new feature that they refer to as a "fat" jar, but I'm giving it the name Mega-Jar! This is a new single dependency that you...

David H Nebinger | Feb 1, 2021 2:02 PM

A community member posted the following plea on the Liferay Community Slack channel. I feel that it makes a great example, so I'm including it here. Hi I am migrating from Liferay 7.0 to Liferay...

David H Nebinger | Dec 22, 2020 9:09 PM

About a year ago, Liferay introduced a new program that I have been actively participating in, Liferay Developer Services. But what is this program? Liferay Support When you are a Liferay DXP...

David Gomez | Nov 19, 2020 9:02 AM

This time, things are a little bit different to last year (in case you haven’t noticed ). Our Developer Conference has been a great platform throughout the past 7 years to strengthen the Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | Oct 20, 2020 11:11 PM

At DEVCON 2019 we announced several initiatives aimed at streamlining interactions between us and our community in order to make it easier to find the information needed to aid in a project or to...

Jamie Sammons | Oct 13, 2020 3:59 AM

Commerce is one of our newer open source projects and we’re excited about the feedback we’ve received so far. Our last community release was 2.0 last year, happy to finally share 3.0. Fully...

Jamie Sammons | Oct 13, 2020 3:52 AM

Today marks one of our biggest releases to date. For the first time ever both Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce are being released in tandem and Liferay Commerce is now bundled with Liferay...

David H Nebinger | Sep 15, 2020 6:06 PM

One thing that I commonly see Liferay admins doing is changing the user.timezone JVM parameter to their local timezone. I mean, I get why this might seem like a good idea. I only serve users around...

Olaf Kock | Sep 8, 2020 6:56 AM

On and around 24 September (depending on your exact timezone), we'll host the very first /dev/24 livestream. Technical information for 24 hours - sleep ahead, and schedule some recovery time...

Jamie Sammons | Aug 13, 2020 7:58 PM

We are happy to announce the release of Liferay Portal CE 7.3 GA5, this is our fifth GA for 7.3 this year following the new rolling release cycle that we adopted and announced earlier this year. As...

David H Nebinger | Aug 12, 2020 3:11 AM

Malcolm Gladwell is often misquoted as saying, and I'm paraphrasing here, you need 10,000 hours in a subject to become an expert. It's a phrase many of us have heard, whether attributed to Gladwell...

David Gomez | Aug 7, 2020 10:11 AM

Maybe you are (or have been at some point) afraid of sharing with the community, submitting a proposal to a Conference, or a User Group meetup because you think that you don’t have anything...

Abigail Pettit | Jul 27, 2020 5:02 PM

We are excited to announce the launch of our Twitter and YouTube accounts, where we will be posting education-related content such as tutorials, feature highlights, and product overviews. Make sure...

Brandon Pettit | Jul 24, 2020 3:14 PM

Hey All! I am happy to announce that the Front-End and Back-End Developer certification exams for Liferay DXP 7.2 have been released! Over the past few months, the Education team has been hard at...