I'm happy to report that according to the following graph from Maven Central, the download stats for Liferay Faces are trending upward. In fact, our downloads have approximately doubled with an...
Introduction Recently I was building a fragment bundle to expose a private package per my blog entry, . In the original bnd.bnd file, I found the following: -dsannotations-options: inherit Not...
When you compare a CE release with an EE release, you'll find that there are a few additional modules that are only available in EE releases. In Liferay terms, these are called "private" modules....
Introduction So once you've been doing some Liferay OSGi development, you'll recognize your component properties stanza, most commonly applied to a typical portlet class: @Component( immediate =...
Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA6 Release was announced about 2 weeks ago and Liferay containerisers may desire to upgrade their Docker container to the new Liferay version. Well, this is a not so hard...
Introduction On a project recently I had a Theme war and, like those themes you can download from the MarketPlace, I also had pages, contents and documents imported by the Resources Importer (RI)...
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA6! Download Now! What’s New Bug Fixes - Liferay 7 Portal CE GA6 is mainly a bug fix release and contains over 800...
Introduction This blog covers Liferay DXP SP4 integration with Microsoft ADFS (2.0) through SAML 2.0 (Liferay SAML plugin 3.1.1). Please note as per new update in Liferay SAML plugin, you don't...
This one is for my good friend Milen... Sometimes he frustrates me, but he always forces me to think... Introduction So if you've done any Liferay 7.x CE or DXP development, you may have...
An episode on the "Per" things: Performance and Permissions. I spoke to Preston Crary, who amazingly was not mad at me for losing an earlier recording. We're talking about these (and more) topics...
Everyone wants to see Liferay Portal in their native language, and version 7.1 will support up to 45 different languages. On the road to the release of Liferay 7.1 we are launching the Community...
Introduction So originally I presented the blog post, Fronting Liferay Tomcat with Apache HTTPd daemon, but that post featured my partiality for using mod_jk to connect HTTPd and Tomcat. Personally...
A good friend of mine, Minhchau Dang, pointed out to me that I have frequently used OSGi version ranges in my blogs. I explained that I was concerned that I didn't want to bind to a specific...
Q-Have you ever wondered if you can customize your Elastic Search, so that on your searches in Liferay, not only the words you're searching for come up in the results but also synonyms of these...
So the question comes up how to do Liferay upgrades. I'm not talking here about the technical details of how you upgrade one particular plugin to another type of plugin, what kinds of API changes...
Tomcat 8.5 is an in-between version of Apache Tomcat 8.0 and 9.0. According to the Apache site, it contains some features in 9.0 that have been backported to 8.0. This version of Tomcat is...
So Jamie just announced the new Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program here: https://community.liferay.com/news/liferay-7-1-community-beta-program/ I recommend everyone who has working code in Liferay...
Welcome to the Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program! During the Liferay 7.0 development cycle we launched the Community Expedition program. With over 600 participants this was one of our largest...
Okay, in case it is not yet clear, Liferay 7 uses an OSGi container. I know what you're thinking: "Well, Duh..." The point is that OSGi is actually a standard and anything that works within OSGi...
I have been working on adding CKEditor plugins to the Alloy Editor in Liferay DXP and figured I would share what I found. Specifically I was trying to add the YouTube Plugin. There are some...
Introduction In recent times, containers are becoming more and more important in the software lifecycle management, whether we like it or not. The majority of the leading software companies have...
In the very beginning of every mobile app project, we can have to face a tough decision: should I go for a native approach to make the most of the device capabilities and optimize the user...
I am very pleased to announce the first release of Adaptive Media available for Liferay 7 GA5 and Liferay DXP. Below you can find the links to download the app from Liferay Marketplace. Download...
So I've been working a lot more with Angular 2+ recently (Angular 4 actually, but that is not so important) and wanted to share some of my findings for those of you whom are interested... Accessing...
So, as a developer, I'm like usually whacking my whole runtime environment and starting over. Why? Well, regardless how much I try to keep it clean, cruft will find its way into the environment....
At Liferay Symposium North America 2017, I had a discussion with a few of our customers on the hidden dangers of rolling back Liferay changes. There are multiple ongoing efforts to improve how we...
On October 6, 2017 my colleague Sebastiaan and I held a presentation at Liferay DevCon about a cool integration the COIN team made. We were looking for a fun and exciting Internet of Things...
Liferay has different types of pages. The default one is Layout - it’s standard, empty by default page, which is displayed in navigation menu. Portlets may be added to such page, themes and layouts...
To make some custom class available inside a theme velocity template, you need to put it's instance into com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.WebKeys#VM_VARIABLES request attribute. And it will be...
Themelets are small, extendable, and reusable pieces of code. They help to avoid duplication of code. Code that can be reused in other themes can be written in themelet which can be extended to any...
This blog is for creating an interface which will show number of live users and some other details. First of all create a portlet which will provide interface and then create a hook within the...
Welcome to the fourth entry in a series about what to keep in mind when building Liferay from source. First, to recap the previous entries in this series from last year: Getting Started with...
Short explanation If you want to convert a third party library of your portlets (modules) into a Bundle OSGi to be used by all modules, you could create a new module with your third party library...
I wrote blog for theme development with IDE . Further I explored the way to configure gradle project. I would like to share those steps that I have experienced hard to find and many developers I...
The Liferay ecosystem is richer than ever, and our community members have never been as global. Each one of us has different interests and with all this diversity, it gets hard to understand the...
This year, the Knowledge Management team at Liferay set out not only to document Liferay 7/DXP, but to document it well. To do this, we identified several improvements we wanted to make: We wanted...
Liferay provide OOTB features for Preview of Documents (PDF, Word, Image), Media (Audio and Video) in Document and Media Portlet. The same is available after installing following components...
Liferay Theme generator tool is an easy way to create themes in Liferay v6.2 and 7. You would not need SDK for this but remember that there are some prequisities in terms of installation and...
Yay, it took a while to get onto it again, and finally I updated Custom Navigation and it just went through the approval process yesterday. Now it's available for Liferay 7 and DXP as well. What...
Introduction OSGi Fragments are a really powerful tool to extend the features of an existing bundle. Indeed, since fragments share classpath with their host bundle, they allow us to implement new...
Previous parts of this series can be found here (part 1), here (part 2), here (part 3) and here (part 4). In the final part of this blog series few more interesting features are added to the...
Liferay Integration with Analytics 1) With Google Analytics Set up an account with Google Analytics: https://analytics.google.com/ This will create a Tracking Id Configure the Tracking ID In...
This blog entry is part of a three-part blog series that explores some of the great features provided by Liferay Screens and Liferay Mobile SDK. In this this series, I will cover: Liferay Screens –...
Description: For Servlet configuration in Liferay DXP portlet, we will need to make necessary changes to the configuration files. Start with making a plugin custom portlet and add a servlet to...
2017 was a great year for the Liferay Community. Many things were accomplished and we know that there are still many things to be improved. We created a new website where you can discover and stay...
While working on Elasticsearch debugging, I just made a docker-compose file to start up an external Elasticsearch with plugins that Liferay DXP / 7 installed with debugging tools. Hope this would...
Overview As an administrator of a Liferay Portal server, you may be required to trace the behaviour of one or more services for a live instance. This article outlines the steps for enabling or...
Overview The follow document outlines high level steps for patching Liferay Portal 6.1 source. NOTE: This approach also works with Liferay Portal 6.2 Patching Steps Show installed and available...
Overview Liferay Portal 6 supports six plugin types for customizing and extending the base product : Portlets Hooks Themes Layouts EXT Web For many extension cases, portlets, hooks, themes and...
Overview This article outlines the steps for configuring Apache HTTPD and Liferay Portal with SSL. This article should be used in conjunction with the following articles: David H Nebinger Blog -...
Overview Firefox can be quite obstinate when it comes to clearing favourite (aka. shortcut) web site icons from it's cache. This short article wil outline the steps for clearing favourite icons in...
Overview Configuring Liferay Portal to use Google Mail is relatively easy. The key is to enable SSL socket connections. The following article provides steps to enable Liferay Portal to send email...
Overview The article outlines the steps to change the default Liferay Portal web context from "/" to "/portal" ? Steps Step 1 - Over-ride property "portal.ctx" Over-ride the property "portal.ctx"...
Overview If you are facing Liferay Portal login issues (eg. unexpected user session timeouts, unexpected double login prompts), you can perform high level tracing by enabling logging in the primary...
This blog entry is part of a three-part blog series that explores some of the great features provided by Liferay Screens and Liferay Mobile SDK. In this this series, I will cover: Liferay Screens –...
We just released latest version of blade cli that includes all of the new npm frontend project templates. This also bumps the rest of the project templates to use latest versions of Liferay gradle...
About one month ago, Liferay posted an announcement which talked about how to deploy the New Clustering Code for Liferay Portal Community. One of the first steps documented in this announcement was...
(Previous parts of this series can be found here (part 1), here (part 2) and here (part 3) As a random, Liferay custom search developer you might want to get support for Boolean operators and|or...
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