Blogs

Olaf Kock | 16/09/2025 14:05

Javascript EventListeners are a great tool and easily introduced in a template, a fragment or any other frontend component. It's quick to write window.addEventListener("scroll", doSomething); and...

David H Nebinger | 11/09/2025 14:43

A long time connection of mine recently asked on the community slack: Do you know how we can force maven central to update the Liferay artifacts? Example here :...

Sukhvinder Singh | 06/09/2025 09:35

Layout and composition are the foundation of effective page design. They make your pages easier to read, navigate, and maintain—resulting in a richer and more consistent user experience. With...

Ben Turner | 29/08/2025 01:04

Hi Everyone, if you read my recent post on our upcoming Q3 Release Webinars (and if you haven't yet, remember to register!) you'll remember that I said I'm taking on a much more prominent role in...

Ben Turner | 21/08/2025 05:45

Hi everyone! Firstly, a quick introduction from me - as I've just moved into the brand-new role of Principal Evangelist. You'll be hearing a lot more from me as I really get going with this role -...

Sudhanshu Mishra | 16/08/2025 16:18

Before moving forward, we must know, What is CRA and Vite? Why we should always use Vite over CRA? Let's have clarity to these questions first.   1. CRA (Create React App) What it is: CRA is a...

David H Nebinger | 15/08/2025 13:59

Introduction Since Liferay has published https://learn.liferay.com/w/dxp/development/tooling/liferay-workspace/upgrading-to-jakarta, I think that means it's okay for me to blog about it. In my...

David H Nebinger | 08/08/2025 17:23

Between major versions of Liferay, the internal structure of Service Builder (SB) modules can change—sometimes subtly, sometimes significantly. These changes might affect how services are...

Michael Wall | 07/08/2025 17:07

Introduction This blog post is to introduce a full end to end proof of content (POC) to integrate Liferay DXP with RabbitMQ for asynchronous message processing using custom services and Client...

David H Nebinger | 24/07/2025 16:19

Introduction My blog/project ideas typically come from client and community questions about how to do something in Liferay. However, in this case, I was inspired by a recent post on SlashDot about...

David H Nebinger | 21/06/2025 18:51

Introduction Internationalization (I18N) has always been a foundational concern for global enterprise platforms like Liferay. From its earliest days, Liferay provided a robust mechanism for...

David H Nebinger | 21/06/2025 05:51

Okay, okay—there aren’t actually falling rocks. But if you’re a developer working with Liferay DXP, especially as we approach the 2025.Q3 release, it might feel like you’re dodging debris. That’s...

David H Nebinger | 19/06/2025 16:34

If you’ve ever heard me talk about building single-page apps inside Liferay, chances are good you’ve also heard me discourage the use of things like React’s <HashRouter>. It’s not that I have...

David H Nebinger | 12/06/2025 16:11

So recently I was working with a client, they were asking about a problem they were having. I started with my typical first question which is "What version of Liferay are you using?" Their...

David H Nebinger | 06/06/2025 14:21

Just a short one today... So like every few months I either encounter a build error from RESTBuilder code, or someone asks me about it... Basically after generating RESTBuilder code, when you try...

Daniel Carrillo Broeder | 04/06/2025 13:07

The purpose of this post is to extend the image provided by Liferay PaaS to include a custom module — ngx_brotli, a widely-used compression module that improves web performance by reducing response...

David H Nebinger | 14/05/2025 14:23

Introduction So anyone who knows me can tell you that I'm a huge fan of Custom Elements, especially when used with Liferay Objects. I prefer to use React for creating the front end and Objects for...

Marco Leo | 23/04/2025 17:07

To our valued Liferay Open Source Community, Over the past two years, Liferay has implemented significant changes to our product release strategy. These adjustments, moving from a weekly to a...

David H Nebinger | 26/03/2025 15:13

Introduction On March 18th, 2025, Liferay sent an email to clients and partners outlining the roadmap for migrating from Java EE to Jakarta EE that is coming in the 2025.Q3 release. It’s a...

David H Nebinger | 05/03/2025 19:49

So this is just a quick post inspired by an answer my friend Evan Thibodeau posted to a Liferay Community Slack question: Hi, how to develop admin applications (i.e. the ones that can be added and...

David H Nebinger | 27/02/2025 20:08

Introduction In my first post, Goodbye MySQL, Hello PostgreSQL, I shared that after a lot of practical research, Liferay had decided to move their cloud platforms off of MySQL and onto PostgreSQL...

Jamie Sammons | 21/02/2025 17:46

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 | 09/01/2025 15:58

So I wasn't planning on writing this blog today, but it is hitting a lot of people and I'm sure there's going to be a slew of reported issues on this, so I felt I should get the word out... If you...

David H Nebinger | 03/01/2025 20:41

A real quick one today so everyone is aware. The next releases of Liferay, DXP 2025.Q1 and CE GA 134, will be built using JDK 17. This means that JDKs 8 and 11 will not be an option at all. You'll...

Jamie Sammons | 13/12/2024 23:06

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 | 09/12/2024 16:26

Well, we've done it! We've updated finally from React 16 to React 18 at the portal level. In DXP 2025.Q1 and CE GA 134*, Liferay is no longer going to be based on React 16. This is significant...

David H Nebinger | 25/11/2024 19:47

Just a quick one today... So I'm working on some Client Extensions and wanted to see the impact that deployment would have across virtual instances. FWIW, CX are only supposed to affect the virtual...

David H Nebinger | 25/11/2024 18:14

Introduction For a long time now Private Pages have been deprecated by Liferay... From a platform perspective, they are really a pain. A site can be made up of two different kinds of pages, public...

Daniel Martinez Cisneros | 06/11/2024 09:46

This article provides the necessary steps to configure Cross-Cluster Replication (CCR) for Elasticsearch with Liferay on a local machine. By following this guide, you’ll simulate the behavior of...

David H Nebinger | 11/10/2024 16:11

So this past summer a number of my Office Hours sessions had to be cancelled. All I really said at the time was that I was sorry about cancelling the sessions and that I was busy traveling. And you...

David H Nebinger | 11/10/2024 13:07

Many weeks ago I blogged about how I could no longer add images to blogs and this was preventing me from publishing some entries I had which needed screen shots... We have since fixed that issue,...

David H Nebinger | 10/10/2024 15:43

Just a quick one today that will hopefully save you some time if you hit this yourself... I'm updating a workspace to use JDK-21 (it was previously working fine w/ JDK-11). When I started Tomcat, I...

David H Nebinger | 01/10/2024 19:34

Introduction Goodbye MySQL? No, don't worry, Liferay isn't dropping support for MySQL, don't start panicking just yet. Liferay has been transitioning new PaaS and new/existing SaaS systems from...

Mohammed Yasin | 28/09/2024 10:38

Liferay Objects has been one of the powerful features of Liferay. It provides codeless approach of building application. It provides headless api which can be used for accessing object entry data....

David H Nebinger | 25/09/2024 18:16

My good friend Andrew Jardine has started upgrading his Mastering Liferay site, currently on 7.1, and he's going to be upgrading it to the latest 7.4. However, he recently was blessed with a new M3...

David H Nebinger | 25/09/2024 16:03

Recently I was helping a client who seemed be under a DDOS attack... Analysis of traffic showed a large number of incoming requests that seemed to be doing searches for various expected keywords....

David H Nebinger | 18/09/2024 12:55

Introduction As evidenced by my recent blogs, I'm still on a React Custom Element Client Extension tear... I think this is the best way to develop custom solutions on Liferay because they are free...

Vinoth Kumar | 14/09/2024 14:15

We may face some scenario to execute a process which might consume JVM memory and keeps the web page loading when dealing with large tasks like file uploads. Liferay has BackgroundTaskExecutor...

David H Nebinger | 13/09/2024 05:19

Everyone loves a bug bounty program, right? Well I want to launch an unofficial bug bounty program today! What are we looking for? Bugs related to performing builds using JDK17 and/or JDK21. So...

Jamie Sammons | 12/09/2024 19:32

    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...