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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 to another node and change the content the first node is displaying. If I refresh the first node, I know it is working if that node shows the updated content instead of the old content....

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 be found on Liferay Developer Network.  For information on upgrading, see the Upgrade Guide. Bug Reporting If you believe you have encountered a...

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 primary reasons: Liferay uses it. As with all things Liferay, it is always easier to go with flow than it is to fight your way upstream. It can be controlled by the...

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 Other files SourceForge Documentation Our documentation team is working hard to create all of the docs for 7.2.  We...

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 still by far the most downloaded, but downloads for the Portlet 3.0 API are rising steadily, indicating that Portlet 3.0 is gaining adoption. At the time of...

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 report that downloads for Liferay Faces have reached another all time high, reaching almost 18,000 downloads/month (see attached graph from Maven Central). Also as I mentioned in...

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 is working hard to create all of the docs for 7.2.  We are in the midst of creating a new site to replace LDN that will feature an...

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 is working hard to create all of the docs for 7.2.  We are in the midst of creating a new site to replace LDN that will feature an...

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, ever since I got started in the internet business in the mid 90’s of the last century I witness an ever increasing speed of innovation. How do you keep up with that as an organisation?...

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 Javascript into <aui:validator name="required"> tag (Ultimate Only) Update embedded blade cli to 3.6.0 Fix the following problem on Intellij...

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 is working hard to create all of the docs for 7.2.  We are in the midst of creating a new site to replace LDN that will feature an updated...

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 communicate, engage and delight customers across multiple channels, ultimately increasing both revenue and customer base. Liferay has been at the forefront of helping organizations understand...

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 ultimate goal of this vision is to empower non-technical users to create stunning websites. To achieve that goal, we envisioned the role of the marketer and business users as specific personas...

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 rollout or your production deployments, etc. There is really a lot of stuff that they won't say, but you don't really get the impression that there are things that aren't said by...

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 aside, we use frameworks because we [easily] leverage the functionality they bring to the table so we don't have to recreate the wheel. Heck, even Liferay has its framework stuff, not...

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 Documentation and the Liferay Help Center. Well, for you, who understands a bit about the subject and knows what you're looking for, here is your place, below I'll show you how you can...

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 much better way to have an open discussion with you other than setting time constraints and strict rules. As you all know, Liferay Portal CE is an Open Source product developed in...

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 you can import elsewhere without publishing it to NPM? Well, here is one solution you can try! Please note I'll be referring to the code in this repo throughout the blog post . 1) Create...

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 come with their own set of issues. Logging is tough because it is not searchable and hardly usable. Database persistence doesn't have these problems, but the administration and...

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 and providing feedback should be a continuous engagement and not be limited to a program with a short life span.  With the newly compressed release cycle we found that we were...