Blogs

Davide Abbatiello | Oct 2, 2018 3:10 PM

Introduction If you're reading this post is because you need to know which device currently access on your Liferay through Liferay Mobile Device Detection Lite. Specially, you can not explain why...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | Sep 26, 2018 3:13 PM

Introduction In this blog I'll describe how to migrate data and code from Liferay 6.2 to 7.1. Blog overview: I. Prerequisites - description of demo project and data/content to be migrated. II....

David Gomez | Sep 26, 2018 10:59 AM

Java 11 has just been released (on Sep, 25th) and it comes with the consolidation of a series of changes, not only to the language and the platform, but to the release and support model that has...

Dave Truong | Sep 25, 2018 9:21 PM

With the release of JDK11, Oracle's new Java SE Support Policy (and here) brings sweeping changes to the Java Enterprise community. If you would like a good explanation of the changes to come, I...

Michael Williams | Sep 20, 2018 7:01 PM

Charts are great visual aids. They're crucial to digesting data and information quickly. Prior to Liferay Portal 7.1, we didn't have a way to include charts in our apps. No more! Now you can use...

Javeed Chida | Sep 18, 2018 4:10 PM

This is a quick post on installing Liferay DXP to a SQL Server database. The Liferay documentation does include the database properties that make up the connection string. But things weren’t as...

Ashley Yuan | Sep 18, 2018 7:34 AM

We are pleased to announce the second general available release of Liferay Project SDK Installers. New Installers The installation problems are fixed in the new release, and a few bug fixes. ...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Sep 17, 2018 4:36 PM

Liferay Faces Released With Liferay Portal 7.1 Support! Liferay Faces Portal 3.0.3, Bridge Impl 4.1.2, and Bridge Ext 5.0.3 have been released with support for Liferay Portal 7.1! The release also...

Javeed Chida | Sep 16, 2018 12:26 AM

I’ve been mulling over an oft-encountered requirement, and I figured it would be alright to jot down my thoughts, even if only to evoke a response. Nothing makes my day like a comment that goes,...

David H Nebinger | Sep 14, 2018 7:38 PM

Introduction So those who know me or have worked with me know that I hate theming. I do. I find it to be one of the hardest things in Liferay to get right. I can build modules all day long, but ask...

Louis-Guillaume Durand | Sep 14, 2018 3:48 PM

Introduction In this article I’ll try to give you a comprehensive picture of the current state of theming in Liferay 7.1. To do this, I’ll describe the evolution of Liferay theming from the early...

Christopher Boyd | Sep 13, 2018 11:54 AM

Hello all! We want our development tools to be flexible and extensible enough to meet our users requirements, and with this in mind, we have developed 2 new concepts for Blade: Extensions and...

David H Nebinger | Sep 12, 2018 12:54 PM

Just a quick blog in case it hasn't come up before... Liferay was using a CDN for offloading traffic for the repository artifacts. You've likely seen the URL during builds or within your build...

Olaf Kock | Sep 12, 2018 8:25 AM

Did you already book your ticket for Devcon 2018? Early Bird ends in a few hours (14 Sep 2018) and I hear that the Unconference is solidly booked (not yet sold out, but on a good path to be sold...

Emiliano Cicero | Sep 11, 2018 8:29 AM

With Liferay releasing new products such as Analytics Cloud and Commerce we decided to cover the need for charts by providing an open source library. The technology Clay, our main implementation...

Ianire Cobeaga | Sep 10, 2018 8:55 AM

This is the second post explaining the new Web Experience functionalities released in version 7.1 of Liferay Portal. As presented in the previous post, in order to empower business users, it is...

Minhchau Dang | Sep 8, 2018 1:49 AM

A few months ago, in the Community Chat, one of our community members raised the question, "Why does Liferay prefer public pages over private pages?" For example, if you select the "Go to Site"...

David H Nebinger | Sep 7, 2018 5:59 PM

By request, a blog to explain compile vs compileOnly vs compileInclude... First it is important to understand that these are actually names for various configurations used during the build process,...

David H Nebinger | Sep 6, 2018 6:04 PM

Introduction One of the benefits that you get from an enterprise-class JEE application server is a centralized administration console. Rather than needing to manage nodes individually like you...

David H Nebinger | Sep 6, 2018 12:34 AM

From the home office outside of Charleston, South Carolina, here are the top ten reasons to avoid Portlet and HTTP session storage: Number 10 - With sticky sessions, traffic originating from a web...