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Jamie Sammons | 02.11.2018 16:56

Update: This has been moved to January 11, 2019. Reason for the changes The vulnerabilities in TLS 1.0 (and SSL protocols) include POODLE and DROWN. Due to these security risks, Liferay decided to...

Ibai Ruiz | 31.10.2018 14:57

Helping my colleague Sergio Sanchez with his GDPR talk in the past Spanish Symposium, I came across a hidden gem in Liferay 7.1. It turns out you can integrate custom Service Builder entities with...

Luis Miguel Barcos | 29.10.2018 17:07

In the previous posts, we talked about what we were going to do, how we were going to do it, and which tools we were going to use. We introduced you the Liferay Screens’s screenlets and the reason...

Sarai Diaz | 29.10.2018 14:14

Previously, we talked about how market is really fragmented right now because there isn’t any popular hybrid framework. We kept an eye on some of the most popular frameworks like React Native,...

Álvaro Saugar | 27.10.2018 10:57

//The spanish version of this article can be found here: Primer aniversario de la comunidad Liferay en España, otra vez. One year ago, on October 25, 2017, Liferay Community in Spain started again....

Eduardo Perez | 23.10.2018 12:50

As many of you probably know, starting with Liferay DXP, Elasticsearch is the default Search Engine. In fact, by default, an Elasticsearch instance is embedded in Liferay DXP (it’s a good moment to...

Victor Galan | 23.10.2018 10:43

In the previous blog post we covered the beginning of the project, this includes a description of the app features, advantages of using Liferay Screens and lastly the wireframe. In this one, we...

Victor Galan | 23.10.2018 10:29

Before we begin with this story, for those of you that don’t know about Liferay Screens. Liferay Screens is a library for iOS, Android and Xamarin that aims to speed up the development of native...

Pavel Savinov | 21.10.2018 19:21

Display pages functionality in Liferay always was tightly coupled to the Web Content articles, we never had plans to support more or less the same technology for other types of assets even though...

Pavel Savinov | 19.10.2018 05:03

In Liferay 7.1 we presented a new vision to the page authoring process. The main idea was to empower business users to create pages and visualize contents in a very visual way, without a need to...

Minhchau Dang | 17.10.2018 20:19

Liferay is a large project, and many developers who are attempting to get their customizations to work with Liferay will often end up asking the question, "What version of module W should I use at...

Luis Miguel Barcos | 08.10.2018 16:02

First of all, for those of you who don't know about Liferay Screens. Liferay Screens is a component library based on components called Screenlets. A screenlet is a visual component that you insert...

David Gomez | 26.09.2018 10:59

Java 11 has just been released (on Sep, 25th) and it comes with the consolidation of a series of changes, not only to the language and the platform, but to the release and support model that has...

Dave Truong | 25.09.2018 21:21

With the release of JDK11, Oracle's new Java SE Support Policy (and here) brings sweeping changes to the Java Enterprise community. If you would like a good explanation of the changes to come, I...

Michael Williams | 20.09.2018 19:01

Charts are great visual aids. They're crucial to digesting data and information quickly. Prior to Liferay Portal 7.1, we didn't have a way to include charts in our apps. No more! Now you can use...

Ashley Yuan | 18.09.2018 07:34

We are pleased to announce the second general available release of Liferay Project SDK Installers. New Installers The installation problems are fixed in the new release, and a few bug fixes. ...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 17.09.2018 16:36

Liferay Faces Released With Liferay Portal 7.1 Support! Liferay Faces Portal 3.0.3, Bridge Impl 4.1.2, and Bridge Ext 5.0.3 have been released with support for Liferay Portal 7.1! The release also...

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...

Victor Zorin | 06.08.2018 01:22

I am starting a short series of blogs in which I will show how to customise User Registration / Customer Acquisition process in Liferay. The inspiration for this blog is one of our DXP portal...

Ianire Cobeaga | 03.08.2018 10:54

In Liferay Portal 7.1 a lot of effort has been put in improving the experience of building sites and pages and, as a result, some new functionalities have been introduced to empower marketers and...

Ashley Yuan | 03.08.2018 02:48

We are pleased to announce the first general available release of Liferay Project SDK Installers that support Liferay 7.1. New Installers: For customers, they can download all of them on the...