Blogs

David H Nebinger | Aug 23, 2019 5:11 PM

Just a quick post today... Helped a client who was getting a message in the logs after configuring the SAML SP in Liferay using an ADFS IdP: Caused by:...

Milen Dyankov | Aug 6, 2019 9:07 PM

Participate in an Open Source project? Meaning ... do what exactly? The trouble with that phrase is that everyone puts their own meaning in it. Some will claim it’s not participation unless you...

Milen Dyankov | Aug 6, 2019 8:59 PM

As expected (we wrote the redirect rules after all) and confirmed by our access logs, the documentation was the first place you discovered in the new Liferay Portal website. But did you notice what...

Milen Dyankov | Aug 6, 2019 8:47 PM

Have you been asked “What is Liferay Portal?” or “Why are you using it?” or similar questions? Given all the things it actually is and does, it is sometimes hard to find a simple and accurate...

Milen Dyankov | Aug 6, 2019 8:25 PM

It’s been almost two months now and most of you have probably managed to get used to the new websites and domain names. We invested a lot of time into making the right redirects and to not break...

David H Nebinger | Jul 29, 2019 2:44 PM

Hey, did you know that the Gradle version of the Liferay Workspace now supports building your very own customized Liferay Docker images? Neither did I... I stumbled upon this support in the recent...

David H Nebinger | Jul 28, 2019 9:09 PM

The Liferay Workspace comes with a great build option that I'm not sure developers know about and/or use - distribution bundles. When you have your Gradle-based workspace, the simple command...

David H Nebinger | Jul 28, 2019 2:15 AM

Okay, so I'm like working on a bigger project that will be a bigger blog sometime soon, but I really need a current Liferay DXP tarball. When I say current, I mean that it must have: The latest...

David H Nebinger | Jul 27, 2019 1:24 AM

I was recently fishing for topics to build potential sessions for Devcon 2019 (you're going, right? ;-) ) and one community member suggested the topic of Service Trackers. While I'm not sure I...

David H Nebinger | Jul 26, 2019 9:02 PM

Liferay 7.2 has an updated Service Builder that introduces some changes that we should all be aware of. From a Dependency Injection perspective, not really much is going to change for us when it...

Ashley Yuan | Jun 27, 2019 8:48 AM

Head over to this page for downloading Liferay IntelliJ 1.5.0 plugin. Release Highlights: Add support for development on Liferay 7.2 Update embedded blade to 3.7.0 Add index sources option in new...

Ashley Yuan | Jun 27, 2019 8:23 AM

New Liferay Project SDK Installers and Developer Studio 3.6.1 ga2 has been made available today. This new package is based on eclipse 2018-12 and support for eclipse Photon or greater. Download: ...

David Gomez | Jun 25, 2019 7:55 AM

We, as software developers, usually need to reach our users through different channels: from web sites to applications running on smart devices (smartphones, smartwatches, ...) or even through IoT...

David H Nebinger | Jun 18, 2019 7:15 PM

Quite some time ago I was working with a client that had built web service clients as OSGi modules and leveraged JAXB. During load testing, we found that after many hours of heavy use, the Liferay...

Olaf Kock | Jun 13, 2019 12:38 PM

If you're with Liferay for a while, you may remember the past incarnations of this article, and have dutifully waited for this repost, adapted to the latest versions, 7.2 CE and DXP 7.2. ;) What's...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 4, 2019 6:12 PM

Download Download now at: https://portal.liferay.dev/download New Features Summary Online Editing: Liferay 7.2 now allows for editing files online via Google Docs™, Google Sheets™, and Google...

David H Nebinger | May 31, 2019 9:35 PM

So if you've been monitoring your logs, it is quite possible you're seeing NoSuchLayoutExceptions related to browserconfig.xml. If you are seeing them, it's because your users are running IE 11 and...

David H Nebinger | May 25, 2019 1:09 AM

So recently I got to hang out with board members and officers of the OSGi Alliance, including Liferay's own Ray Auge. A great bunch of folks these guys are; they were easy to talk to and really...

David H Nebinger | May 25, 2019 12:00 AM

So just a quick post here about your Liferay build chain... It is easy, when you're starting out, to follow the instructions to install the Blade CLI or the Maven artifacts. It is also easy, even...

David H Nebinger | May 21, 2019 10:21 PM

Introduction So I'm not sure if you've had the chance to play around with the new Target Platform stuff that Liferay has, but it is really cool. If you haven't read about it or don't know what it...

David H Nebinger | May 21, 2019 1:36 PM

Liferay has a complete built-in scheduled job service which manages jobs that run on every node as well as single jobs that run in a cluster. Unfortunately there hasn't been a way to gain...

Jamie Sammons | May 21, 2019 12:45 AM

Download RC3 now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation Other files SourceForge Documentation Our documentation team is...

David H Nebinger | May 18, 2019 12:56 AM

The price for TripWire CE and TripWire DXP have been significantly reduced by 90%! TripWire is a control panel that compares each node in a cluster against a baseline. Any time there is a...

David H Nebinger | May 14, 2019 2:53 AM

So whenever I set up a new Liferay cluster, I get to the end and I ask myself, "How do I know it is working?" My standard test is to connect to a node of the cluster and view a page. Then I connect...

Jamie Sammons | May 13, 2019 7:16 PM

Overview Find a list of what’s included in the release in the Release Notes Download the release now New Features Summary Portlet 3.0 is fully implemented Documentation Official Documentation can...

David H Nebinger | May 9, 2019 3:49 AM

Introduction So for the longest time I have been an advocate of Liferay's logging API. Folks have asked how to use Log4J or other frameworks and I've always advised against it. Why? Well, for 3...

Jamie Sammons | May 7, 2019 3:51 AM

Note: Liferay Portal 7.2 CE RC1 was an internal release only. Download RC now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation...

Neil Griffin | May 3, 2019 7:17 PM

As shown in the chart below, the Portlet API had around 16,000 downloads/month a year ago, and is now close to 30,000 downloads/month and increasing. The breakdown shows that the Portlet 2.0 API is...

Neil Griffin | May 3, 2019 6:09 PM

Back in April of 2018 I posted a blog titled Liferay Faces downloads at an all time high in which I mentioned that Liferay Faces artifacts had surpassed 11,000 downloads/month. I'm pleased to...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 24, 2019 7:21 PM

Download Beta 3 now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation Other files SourceForge Documentation Our documentation team...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 17, 2019 6:20 PM

Download Beta 2 now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation Other files SourceForge Documentation Our documentation team...

Ruud Kluivers | Apr 17, 2019 9:32 AM

Recently we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Its been a hell of a ride and the internet has had a profound impact on our society and daily lives. You better brace yourself,...

Ashley Yuan | Apr 16, 2019 6:56 AM

Liferay IntelliJ 1.4.0 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Add support for debugging JSPs in Liferay modules (Ultimate Only) Inject...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 8, 2019 6:36 PM

Download Beta 1 now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation Other files SourceForge Documentation Our documentation team...

Eduardo P. García | Apr 6, 2019 5:00 PM

Personalization has become a key part of customer experience. Essentially, by tailoring content for individual users depending on their characteristics, preferences and behaviour, companies can...

David Gomez | Apr 5, 2019 10:28 AM

With the previous release of Liferay Portal 7.1, there was a significant change on the approach to author pages within Liferay Portal, developed under the “Modern Site Building” project. The...

David H Nebinger | Mar 26, 2019 5:45 PM

Introduction There are a lot of things that Liferay just won't say. They won't tell you what app server to use, won't tell you what framework to use, won't tell you how to deal with your production...

David H Nebinger | Mar 21, 2019 7:57 PM

Frameworks. We all use them, some of them we love, some of them we hate, but we use them. There are popular ones like Spring and Hibernate, not so popular ones like Guice and iBatis. Popularity...

Anderson Perrelli | Mar 19, 2019 2:34 PM

This article aims to deliver what you're really looking for, configure Search Enterprise. If you are looking for the smallest details and deeper information, my suggestion is the Elasticserach...

Milen Dyankov | Mar 12, 2019 9:10 PM

I know some of you have been disappointed by my last post about discontinuing the Liferay 7.2 Community Beta Program. I understand. It was also hard for us to let it go. But I do believe there is...

Travis Cory | Mar 11, 2019 11:08 PM

Your Liferay workspace is full of modules. Each module is starting to make use of the same JS resources and functions. Wouldn't it be nice if you could refactor your JS into a separate module that...

David H Nebinger | Feb 27, 2019 4:36 AM

Introduction Out of the box, Liferay DXP has fairly limited audit message output targets. In fact, there are only two that are provided: logging them or persisting to the database. Each of these...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 26, 2019 10:49 PM

Overview As many of you know, we announced that we were going to start the 7.2 Community Beta Program with the release of 7.2 Alpha 1. Since then we have come to the conclusion that bug reporting...

Olaf Kock | Feb 26, 2019 10:11 AM

It took me long enough to bring her on: She's followed Liferay's history for longer than some of the other founders: Caris Chan. And yes, that name means that she's Brian Chan's wife. During my...

Milen Dyankov | Feb 20, 2019 6:26 PM

About two weeks ago, Jamie Sammons announced that Liferay 7.2 Community Beta Program is scheduled to start with the release of 7.2 Alpha 1, which is just around the corner. We know there are some...

David H Nebinger | Feb 20, 2019 4:01 PM

Introduction In the earlier days of Liferay, many administrators missed the warning about not using HSQLDB in production. By default, Liferay is configured to use HSQLDB so you can spin up a...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Feb 18, 2019 3:34 PM

Liferay Faces Roadmap for Liferay Portal 7.2 Support (2019) For Liferay 7.2 support we have three major goals: 1. Support deployment of thin JSF WARs. Liferay Faces has always required that...

Olaf Kock | Feb 8, 2019 11:01 AM

The university content team is busy, and you can find a new full course on Liferay University. Upgrading Liferay This course starts at Liferay 6.2 and upgrades it all the way to 7.1. We're using...

Charles Wu | Feb 5, 2019 5:04 AM

If you are a new to liferay 7.x platform since liferay had migrate to OSGi platform, you must have meet the error Unresolved requirement: Import-Package when deploying your bundles, i have a easy...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 1, 2019 11:47 PM

The main purpose of this release is give you a sneak peak of what’s coming in 7.2 and to get an early start on testing our packaging process. It is by no means feature complete and hasn’t been...

Jamie Sammons | Jan 21, 2019 7:42 PM

Overview Find a list of what’s included in the release in the Release Notes Download the release now at: https://www.liferay.com/downloads-community New Features Summary Oracle OpenJDK 11 - GA3...

David H Nebinger | Jan 17, 2019 6:21 PM

Introduction For folks that know me, they know one of my favorite soapbox rants is on HTTP and/or Portlet session storage. Recently my friend Kyle Stiemann wrote a blog about Session Storage in...

David H Nebinger | Jan 16, 2019 7:29 PM

Introduction I have helped many companies and organizations install Liferay (5, 6 and now 7/DXP), but often times they will stop there. I mean, once the app servers are up and serving traffic...

Jan Verweij | Dec 14, 2018 10:35 AM

While trying to give your users the best experience ever you always try to keep things simple. In the past I have filled in many forms and many times with the same data and many times at the same...

Pablo Agulla | Dec 13, 2018 4:45 PM

I’m happy to announce the release of the first beta for the new set of Liferay REST APIs. But before going into details, for those of you who might not be aware of this project, I’d like to give...

Bryan H Cheung | Dec 11, 2018 9:37 PM

Background Last fall we reintroduced the option to use clustering in Liferay 7.0 by compiling a series of modules manually and including them in your project. We received a lot of feedback that...

Joshua St. Clair | Nov 26, 2018 7:03 PM

So perusing the web, you'll notice there's a couple of resources out there explaining how to override the default favicon in Liferay. Of course, the standard way is to add it to /images folder of...

David H Nebinger | Nov 16, 2018 5:55 PM

So we've all seen those @Reference annotations scattered throughout the Liferay code, and it can almost seem like those references are not changeable. In fact, this is not really true at all. The...

David H Nebinger | Nov 16, 2018 3:24 PM

Introduction When developing JSP-based portlets for OSGi deployment, and even when doing JSP fragment bundle overrides, it is often necessary to get service references in the JSP pages. But OSGi...

David H Nebinger | Nov 16, 2018 5:22 AM

Introduction The official Liferay deployment docs are available here: https://dev.liferay.com/discover/deployment They make it easy for folks new to Liferay to get the system up and running and...