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David H Nebinger | 14.09.2018 19:38

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 | 14.09.2018 15:48

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 | 13.09.2018 11:54

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 | 12.09.2018 12:54

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 | 12.09.2018 08:25

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 | 11.09.2018 08:29

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 | 10.09.2018 08:55

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...

David H Nebinger | 07.09.2018 17:59

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 | 06.09.2018 18:04

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 | 06.09.2018 00:34

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...

David H Nebinger | 05.09.2018 16:36

The Ugly In one of the first Liferay projects I ever did, I had a need to have some Roles in the environment. They needed to be there so I knew they were available for a custom portlet to assign...

Ashley Yuan | 05.09.2018 03:41

Liferay IntelliJ 1.1.1 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Watch task decorator improvements Support for Liferay DXP Wildfly and CE...

David H Nebinger | 03.09.2018 16:41

Introduction As I spend more time digging around in the bowels of the Liferay source code, I'm always learning new things. Recently I was digging in the Liferay extenders and thought I would share...

Dave Truong | 28.08.2018 20:11

One of the initiatives our Quality Assurance Team has taken the past few years, has been to try and automate all their testing. This has resulted in testing all of our compatible environments in a...

Ashley Yuan | 28.08.2018 02:21

We are pleased to announce the new release of Liferay Project SDK Installers version 3.3.0 GA1. Download: For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page. ...

David H Nebinger | 25.08.2018 13:57

I've been asked a couple of times recently about different aspects of @Modified annotation that I'm not sure have been made clear in the documentation, so I wanted to cover the lifecycle...

David H Nebinger | 19.08.2018 20:24

Introduction So many times I have answered the question, "How do I find out what import packages my bundle needs?" with the tired and unsatisfactory response that uses the following process: Build...

Olaf Kock | 16.08.2018 07:38

As promised less than a month ago, we're working on more content for Liferay University. Meet your new professors Charles Cohick and Dimple Koticha. The new lessons are Gain Insight Into the...

David H Nebinger | 15.08.2018 15:39

A SysAdmin came up to me and said he was having issues starting Liferay DXP 7.0, a bunch of CNFEs were coming up at startup. I found that they were set up to use Wily for monitoring their JVMs, and...

Victor Zorin | 13.08.2018 07:26

This is the second part of the "Extending Liferay DXP - User Registration" blog. In this blog we explore the ways of implementing registration process for a portal with multiple sites. Portal...