Blogs

Mohammed Yasin | 21.04.2022 09:19

Liferay provides an option to configure password policy (refer), it provides an option to mention Password Expiry Time. Once the Password is expired then user will not be able to login to the...

Jamie Sammons | 15.04.2022 17:17

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...

Jamie Sammons | 08.04.2022 16:40

Important issue fixed: Update Spring to 5.2.20 Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | 25.03.2022 17:41

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 | 24.03.2022 15:15

Introduction So my friend Thiago Moreira posted the following (slightly edited) message to our internal Slack: Hey, so I've built a module for 7.4 GA5, but when it is deployed to 7.4 GA16, I get a...

Jamie Sammons | 18.03.2022 17:02

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 | 02.03.2022 03:08

Another quick one this week... A community member reached out and asked for help with a problem on their DXP Cloud site. They were already working with DXP Cloud support, but they had been...

Jamie Sammons | 25.02.2022 18:10

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 | 25.02.2022 15:34

Just a quick one today... In previous versions of Liferay, if you were browsing a site as a guest but wanted to access a private page or a private site, Liferay would automagically show you the...

David H Nebinger | 14.02.2022 20:29

Introduction Recently I was asked how to implement MDC and/or NDC in Liferay 7.4, and since I thought it might be interesting to a wider audience, I'm going to blog about it here. Background In a...

Jamie Sammons | 11.02.2022 19:16

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 | 11.02.2022 19:14

Introduction In November of 2018, I authored a blog, Boosting Search. In that blog, I showed how to boost search results for tag matches in an effort to provide some alternative to GSA's KeyMatch...

David H Nebinger | 07.02.2022 15:50

Introduction I've worked with clients that, for one reason or another, needed to change their database platform. This ask has increased with the move to DXPCloud and MySQL database. I'm not sure...

Jamie Sammons | 04.02.2022 20:38

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...

Jamie Sammons | 28.01.2022 21:45

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 | 26.01.2022 00:02

Introduction I was recently polling my coworkers looking for new blog ideas, and Filipe Melo asked about Websockets. I haven't seen any other documentation or blogs about building Websocket...

Jorge Diaz | 24.01.2022 08:00

Liferay stores all the information in a relational SQL database, but most of the entities (Web Content, Documents, Users, Blogs Entries, etc.) are also indexed on the Elasticsearch server. This...

Jamie Sammons | 21.01.2022 20:19

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 | 21.01.2022 19:08

Hey, so a quick post today about how to set up JNDI connections in Liferay CE 7.4 or Liferay DXP 7.4. Liferay moved jars around in 7.4. No longer are there key jars in the Tomcat lib/ext directory...

Jamie Sammons | 20.01.2022 21:03

Beginning in 2020 we adopted a new rolling release strategy providing more frequent Liferay Portal releases which included new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Although the new release...

Jamie Sammons | 14.01.2022 20:51

The Liferay Portal 7.4 GA7 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. This release also includes Log4j 2.17.1 to address CVE-2021-44832...

David H Nebinger | 13.01.2022 17:55

Introduction My friend and coworker Eric Chin recently posed a question on our internal slack channels asking if anyone had experience with Liferay's Batch mode and he was not finding enough...

David H Nebinger | 11.01.2022 18:57

Introduction So recently I completed a database upgrade from Liferay EE 6.1 up to Liferay DXP 7.4. It was actually pretty straightforward and I didn't encounter any significant blockers. I did...

David H Nebinger | 11.01.2022 14:56

Introduction So I wrote https://liferay.dev/blogs/-/blogs/extending-liferay-osgi-modules five years ago targeting Liferay 7.0. A lot has changed since then. Liferay Gradle Workspace plugin has seen...

Jamie Sammons | 07.01.2022 19:04

The Liferay Portal 7.4 GA6 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. Download options Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same...

David H Nebinger | 10.12.2021 20:06

Hey, all! There's a new zero-day vulnerability hitting the web right now, and it is affecting a lot of libraries and applications out there, including Liferay 7.4. Any app using Log4j2 is...

David H Nebinger | 30.11.2021 14:08

Recently I started a new "Office Hours" session to occur every other Tuesday at 9am EST/10am EDT (14:00 UTC) and 4pm EST/5pm EDT (21:00 UTC) on a Zoom bridge. Here you can bring questions, ideas,...

David H Nebinger | 18.09.2021 00:30

Introduction So when you start building your own fragments and using them on your content pages, you will often times run into an issue with propagation... So I like to create fragments for headers...

David H Nebinger | 24.08.2021 15:24

Introduction I posted two blog posts this week, and each of them had a particular drawback - lack of cluster coordination. The first blog post on cluster-enabled upgrade processes introduced using...

David H Nebinger | 24.08.2021 05:11

Just a quick one... I've just updated my Log Persister project for Liferay 7.3. You can find it under the 7.3 branch: https://github.com/dnebing/log-persist/tree/7.3 For those that aren't aware, I...

David H Nebinger | 21.08.2021 17:40

I recently was helping a client with an upgrade process and that had run into a little problem... A few of the model hints were not updated on some of the columns in their Service Builder services...

David H Nebinger | 16.08.2021 04:15

A really quick post to share something important with you React + Clay developers out there... A recent update to Clay had a breaking internal change. If after deploying your React portlet and you...

David H Nebinger | 07.08.2021 02:46

Introduction In a recent blog I explained how to create a React-based portlet within your Liferay Gradle Workspace by using the js-widget Blade template which in turn uses the Yeoman Liferay JS...

Jamie Sammons | 03.08.2021 17:36

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 | 21.07.2021 06:13

Introduction A client asked me to build a React portlet for them and I was like, "Oh Yeah!" I mean, it's been a while since I built a React portlet and tooling has really changed a lot since then,...

David H Nebinger | 15.07.2021 14:51

Introduction So I was recently asked to help build a custom Liferay docker image for a client and there were some specific requirements such as: Should not contain hard-coded credentials, those...

Jamie Sammons | 30.06.2021 20:47

The Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA8 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. Download options Choose the best download option suited for your...

David H Nebinger | 17.06.2021 18:27

Introduction As many folks know, I'm known for telling people not to look inside the Liferay database itself. It's not always clear what is what in the DB and Liferay has a lot of code around...

Jamie Sammons | 15.06.2021 16:20

Announcing Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA2 We’re excited to continue expanding and improving upon the Liferay Commerce product. The latest version of Commerce offers some minor SEO improvements and many...

Jamie Sammons | 15.06.2021 16:17

Announcing Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA2 Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA2 marks the second major release in the 7.4 release cycle. Although released later than hoped, Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA2 continues...

David H Nebinger | 08.06.2021 03:34

So some time ago I wrote the Cluster Details marketplace plugin. Basically you drop this guy into all of your Liferay clusters and you get a nifty little control panel that tells you details about...

David H Nebinger | 04.06.2021 23:11

Introduction Recently I asked some of my teammates for ideas about what to blog about next. Most of the time I take my inspiration from different clients I work with or questions that come up on...

David H Nebinger | 18.05.2021 03:06

Introduction Historically developers have always wanted to be able to control site creation. It's not that Liferay admins are untrusted or anything like that. It is really more the case where...

David H Nebinger | 14.05.2021 03:10

Introduction Liferay has, for a long time, supported RBAC, the role-based access control. It is, of course, backed by the database so (inheritance aside for the moment) a user will be assigned a...

Jamie Sammons | 26.04.2021 21:20

Announcing Liferay Commerce 4.0 We’re excited to continue expanding and improving upon the Liferay Commerce product. The latest version of Commerce offers improvements in data integration and...

Jamie Sammons | 26.04.2021 20:25

Announcing Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 marks the first major release in the 7.4 release cycle. Although released later than hoped, Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA1 continues...

David H Nebinger | 21.04.2021 17:07

Introduction One of the great advantages I have being known in the community is really the opportunity to meet, talk and work with talented developers and teams. Recently the team at ACSoftware...

David H Nebinger | 12.04.2021 22:29

Introduction So recently a couple of times I've seen folks ask how to send form data somewhere. Some want to trigger remote web service calls, some want to store the data in a different entity or...

David H Nebinger | 08.04.2021 16:04

Introduction Let me start by saying that I'm a huge fan of Upgrade Processes. I've actually written many blogs about Upgrade Processes or using Upgrade Processes:...

Jamie Sammons | 08.03.2021 21:33

The Liferay Portal 7.3 CE GA7 release is primarily focused on fixes so no new notable features will be introduced with this release. Work continues on Liferay Portal CE 7.4 GA1 so look forward to...

David H Nebinger | 13.02.2021 18:50

Introduction As of yet, there has been no official word that JDK 11 is supported by the Liferay developer tools. Just like the old delays going from JDK 7 to JDK 8, various third party tools and...

David H Nebinger | 04.02.2021 19:31

What is the Mega-Jar? So the Liferay Dev Tools team recently included a new feature that they refer to as a "fat" jar, but I'm giving it the name Mega-Jar! This is a new single dependency that you...

David H Nebinger | 01.02.2021 14:02

A community member posted the following plea on the Liferay Community Slack channel. I feel that it makes a great example, so I'm including it here. Hi I am migrating from Liferay 7.0 to Liferay...

David H Nebinger | 22.12.2020 21:09

About a year ago, Liferay introduced a new program that I have been actively participating in, Liferay Developer Services. But what is this program? Liferay Support When you are a Liferay DXP...

David Gomez | 19.11.2020 09:02

This time, things are a little bit different to last year (in case you haven’t noticed ). Our Developer Conference has been a great platform throughout the past 7 years to strengthen the Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | 20.10.2020 23:11

At DEVCON 2019 we announced several initiatives aimed at streamlining interactions between us and our community in order to make it easier to find the information needed to aid in a project or to...

Jamie Sammons | 13.10.2020 03:59

Commerce is one of our newer open source projects and we’re excited about the feedback we’ve received so far. Our last community release was 2.0 last year, happy to finally share 3.0. Fully...

Jamie Sammons | 13.10.2020 03:52

Today marks one of our biggest releases to date. For the first time ever both Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce are being released in tandem and Liferay Commerce is now bundled with Liferay...

David H Nebinger | 15.09.2020 18:06

One thing that I commonly see Liferay admins doing is changing the user.timezone JVM parameter to their local timezone. I mean, I get why this might seem like a good idea. I only serve users around...

Olaf Kock | 08.09.2020 06:56

On and around 24 September (depending on your exact timezone), we'll host the very first /dev/24 livestream. Technical information for 24 hours - sleep ahead, and schedule some recovery time...