Blogs

Vitaliy Koshelenko | Feb 7, 2022 11:01 PM

Overview In this blog I'll explain how to implement a custom Headless API module, configure an OAuth2 authorization and consume the API.  We’ll implement the Headless API for “App manager”...

David H Nebinger | Feb 7, 2022 3:50 PM

Introduction I've worked with clients that, for one reason or another, needed to change their database platform. This ask has increased with the move to DXPCloud and MySQL database. I'm not sure...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 4, 2022 8:38 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...

Jamie Sammons | Jan 28, 2022 9:45 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 | Jan 26, 2022 12:02 AM

Introduction I was recently polling my coworkers looking for new blog ideas, and Filipe Melo asked about Websockets. I haven't seen any other documentation or blogs about building Websocket...

Yuxing Wu | Jan 25, 2022 2:17 AM

Downloads: Liferay Portal 7.3 GA8: Patch | Readme All vulnerabilities fixed in these patches have already been fixed in Liferay Portal 7.4 GA5. Please refer to the readme file for a list of issues...

Jorge Diaz | Jan 24, 2022 8:00 AM

Liferay stores all the information in a relational SQL database, but most of the entities (Web Content, Documents, Users, Blogs Entries, etc.) are also indexed on the Elasticsearch server. This...

Jamie Sammons | Jan 21, 2022 8:19 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...

Madhukar Kumar | Jan 21, 2022 7:20 PM

What is two-way ssl communication? In two-ways ssl authentication, Client and server need to validate and authenticate each other's identities. This can be summarized with the picture below. How...

David H Nebinger | Jan 21, 2022 7:08 PM

Hey, so a quick post today about how to set up JNDI connections in Liferay CE 7.4 or Liferay DXP 7.4. Liferay moved jars around in 7.4. No longer are there key jars in the Tomcat lib/ext directory...

Jamie Sammons | Jan 20, 2022 9:03 PM

Beginning in 2020 we adopted a new rolling release strategy providing more frequent Liferay Portal releases which included new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Although the new release...

Pablo Molina | Jan 19, 2022 9:08 AM

The English version of this article can be found here: Fragments, React and Widgets. Los Fragmentos son simples, son trozos de HTML, CSS y JavaScript que se pueden añadir a una página y fácilmente...

Pablo Molina | Jan 19, 2022 8:31 AM

Fragments are simple, are just some pieces of HTML, CSS and JavaScript that can be added to a page and easily managed by FrontEnd developers. That was, more or less, the first definition we gave...

Jamie Sammons | Jan 14, 2022 8:51 PM

The Liferay Portal 7.4 GA7 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. This release also includes Log4j 2.17.1 to address CVE-2021-44832...

David H Nebinger | Jan 13, 2022 5:55 PM

Introduction My friend and coworker Eric Chin recently posed a question on our internal slack channels asking if anyone had experience with Liferay's Batch mode and he was not finding enough...

Mariela Santillán-Riethmüller | Jan 12, 2022 9:40 AM

For the second year in a row, this event will be global and fully virtual with live moderation from our studios in Germany. We are excited to invite you to another truly international event, full...

David H Nebinger | Jan 11, 2022 6:57 PM

Introduction So recently I completed a database upgrade from Liferay EE 6.1 up to Liferay DXP 7.4. It was actually pretty straightforward and I didn't encounter any significant blockers. I did...

David H Nebinger | Jan 11, 2022 2:56 PM

Introduction So I wrote https://liferay.dev/blogs/-/blogs/extending-liferay-osgi-modules five years ago targeting Liferay 7.0. A lot has changed since then. Liferay Gradle Workspace plugin has seen...

Jamie Sammons | Jan 7, 2022 7:04 PM

The Liferay Portal 7.4 GA6 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same...

Neil Griffin | Jan 6, 2022 3:44 PM

The following versions of PortletMVC4Spring were released on January 5, 2022 AD: Version Description   5.3.1 For use with Spring Framework 5.3.x (tested with 5.3.12) Release Notes 5.2.2 For use...

Mahmoud Hussein Tayem | Jan 5, 2022 10:50 AM

Introduction Liferay DXP is a flexible platform which has been developed initially to support developers to easily implement business automation needs. We always face the question “what if i have a...

Mahmoud Hussein Tayem | Jan 5, 2022 10:37 AM

Introduction Liferay DXP has traditionally offered a wide variety of extension mechanisms to extend and customize the platform. Most of these mechanisms require the deployment of custom-written...

Álvaro Saugar López | Dec 31, 2021 4:33 PM

NOTE: Recap made by all the organizers of /dev/24 It's been some time since /dev/24 ended and it's time to look back and analyze what /dev/24 was. The main feeling is that the second edition of...

Jamie Sammons | Dec 31, 2021 4:06 AM

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...

Crystal Santos | Dec 28, 2021 11:29 PM

When we think about Liferay, we always think about Liferay development style. Even to create React modules until 7.3 version, the React code is Liferay based because you need to have an OSGI module...

Yuxing Wu | Dec 23, 2021 1:37 AM

Hello all, The easiest thing you can do to mitigate the recent vulnerabilities in Log4j is to set the JVM parameter -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true. While this solution is not perfect, it should...

Ashley Yuan | Dec 22, 2021 1:40 AM

The new installers and IDE 3.9.5 ga6 which support development on the upcoming Liferay 7.4 U1 has been made available. Community Download https://liferay.dev/-/ide-installation-instructions...

Fabian Bouché | Dec 20, 2021 12:11 PM

I've often been asked whether we can process additional UserInfo data from an OpenId Connect session after successful log in. I used to share this piece of code where I had my way to access the...

Fabian Bouché | Dec 16, 2021 2:47 PM

The Apache Log4j project is now saying that setting -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true is not a 100% guarantee that you are protected from exploits. I think that currently no one has found a way to...

Fabian Bouché | Dec 14, 2021 7:55 AM

The landscape for Identity and Access Management has changed over the years. Whereas in the past, we'd often rely on proprietary or home grown solutions, we can now largely rely on well established...

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,...

Carlos Durán | Nov 22, 2021 5:39 PM

Nuestra comunidad cumple otro año más, y llegamos a los cuatro. En estos momentos son en los que echamos la vista atrás para ver el camino que hemos recorrido y que nos anima a mirar para adelante...

Brian Lavender | Nov 18, 2021 1:26 AM

While Liferay has many wonderful features like DRAC, a docs repository, user self registration, and more, I still would like to store my data for custom portlets/applications in an external...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | Nov 16, 2021 10:21 AM

Esta entrada de blog está también disponible en español It is increasingly common to deploy applications or microservices in a container-based infrastructure, such as Kubernetes or Openshift....

Brian Lavender | Nov 15, 2021 8:22 PM

Blade is one of the great Liferay development tools. This is true, unless it stops working! Or, maybe you ran the blade installer and the error came up and you now wonder what to do now?! Punt?...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | Nov 15, 2021 4:24 PM

  This blog is also available in english Cada vez es más habitual el despliegue de aplicaciones o microservicios en una infraestructura basada en contenedores, como Kubernetes u Openshift. Liferay...

Dave Truong | Nov 15, 2021 3:47 PM

I had a bit of a hiccup when running my demo during /dev/24 so I ran through my presentation again. Here is the recording as promised:...

Brian Lavender | Nov 10, 2021 4:49 AM

  At the time of this writing, the Maven archetype for a JSF portlet with CDI enabled generates output that can only be built using Maven in order to enable CDI. This currently works with Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | Nov 4, 2021 7:13 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...