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David H Nebinger | 25.05.2019 01:09

So recently I got to hang out with board members and officers of the OSGi Alliance, including Liferay's own Ray Auge. A great bunch of folks these guys are; they were easy to talk to and really...

David H Nebinger | 25.05.2019 00:00

So just a quick post here about your Liferay build chain... It is easy, when you're starting out, to follow the instructions to install the Blade CLI or the Maven artifacts. It is also easy, even...

David H Nebinger | 21.05.2019 22:21

Introduction So I'm not sure if you've had the chance to play around with the new Target Platform stuff that Liferay has, but it is really cool. If you haven't read about it or don't know what it...

David H Nebinger | 21.05.2019 13:36

Liferay has a complete built-in scheduled job service which manages jobs that run on every node as well as single jobs that run in a cluster. Unfortunately there hasn't been a way to gain...

Jamie Sammons | 21.05.2019 00:45

Download RC3 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...

David H Nebinger | 18.05.2019 00:56

The price for TripWire CE and TripWire DXP have been significantly reduced by 90%! TripWire is a control panel that compares each node in a cluster against a baseline. Any time there is a...

David H Nebinger | 14.05.2019 02:53

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...

Jamie Sammons | 13.05.2019 19:16

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...

David H Nebinger | 09.05.2019 03:49

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...

Jamie Sammons | 07.05.2019 03:51

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...

Neil Griffin | 03.05.2019 19:17

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...

Neil Griffin | 03.05.2019 18:09

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...

Jamie Sammons | 24.04.2019 19:21

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...

Jamie Sammons | 17.04.2019 18:20

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...

Ruud Kluivers | 17.04.2019 09:32

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,...

Ashley Yuan | 16.04.2019 06:56

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...

Jamie Sammons | 08.04.2019 18:36

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...

Eduardo P. García | 06.04.2019 17:00

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...

David Gomez | 05.04.2019 10:28

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...

David H Nebinger | 26.03.2019 17:45

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...

David H Nebinger | 21.03.2019 19:57

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...

Anderson Perrelli | 19.03.2019 14:34

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...

Milen Dyankov | 12.03.2019 21:10

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...

Travis Cory | 11.03.2019 23:08

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...

David H Nebinger | 27.02.2019 04:36

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...

Jamie Sammons | 26.02.2019 22:49

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...

Olaf Kock | 26.02.2019 10:11

It took me long enough to bring her on: She's followed Liferay's history for longer than some of the other founders: Caris Chan. And yes, that name means that she's Brian Chan's wife. During my...

Milen Dyankov | 20.02.2019 18:26

About two weeks ago, Jamie Sammons announced that Liferay 7.2 Community Beta Program is scheduled to start with the release of 7.2 Alpha 1, which is just around the corner. We know there are some...

David H Nebinger | 20.02.2019 16:01

Introduction In the earlier days of Liferay, many administrators missed the warning about not using HSQLDB in production. By default, Liferay is configured to use HSQLDB so you can spin up a...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 18.02.2019 15:34

Liferay Faces Roadmap for Liferay Portal 7.2 Support (2019) For Liferay 7.2 support we have three major goals: 1. Support deployment of thin JSF WARs. Liferay Faces has always required that...

Olaf Kock | 08.02.2019 11:01

The university content team is busy, and you can find a new full course on Liferay University. Upgrading Liferay This course starts at Liferay 6.2 and upgrades it all the way to 7.1. We're using...

Charles Wu | 05.02.2019 05:04

If you are a new to liferay 7.x platform since liferay had migrate to OSGi platform, you must have meet the error Unresolved requirement: Import-Package when deploying your bundles, i have a easy...

Jamie Sammons | 01.02.2019 23:47

The main purpose of this release is give you a sneak peak of what’s coming in 7.2 and to get an early start on testing our packaging process. It is by no means feature complete and hasn’t been...

Jamie Sammons | 21.01.2019 19:42

Overview Find a list of what’s included in the release in the Release Notes Download the release now at: https://www.liferay.com/downloads-community New Features Summary Oracle OpenJDK 11 - GA3...

David H Nebinger | 17.01.2019 18:21

Introduction For folks that know me, they know one of my favorite soapbox rants is on HTTP and/or Portlet session storage. Recently my friend Kyle Stiemann wrote a blog about Session Storage in...

David H Nebinger | 16.01.2019 19:29

Introduction I have helped many companies and organizations install Liferay (5, 6 and now 7/DXP), but often times they will stop there. I mean, once the app servers are up and serving traffic...

Jan Verweij | 14.12.2018 10:35

While trying to give your users the best experience ever you always try to keep things simple. In the past I have filled in many forms and many times with the same data and many times at the same...

Pablo Agulla | 13.12.2018 16:45

I’m happy to announce the release of the first beta for the new set of Liferay REST APIs. But before going into details, for those of you who might not be aware of this project, I’d like to give...

Bryan H Cheung | 11.12.2018 21:37

Background Last fall we reintroduced the option to use clustering in Liferay 7.0 by compiling a series of modules manually and including them in your project. We received a lot of feedback that...

Joshua St. Clair | 26.11.2018 19:03

So perusing the web, you'll notice there's a couple of resources out there explaining how to override the default favicon in Liferay. Of course, the standard way is to add it to /images folder of...

David H Nebinger | 16.11.2018 17:55

So we've all seen those @Reference annotations scattered throughout the Liferay code, and it can almost seem like those references are not changeable. In fact, this is not really true at all. The...

David H Nebinger | 16.11.2018 15:24

Introduction When developing JSP-based portlets for OSGi deployment, and even when doing JSP fragment bundle overrides, it is often necessary to get service references in the JSP pages. But OSGi...

David H Nebinger | 16.11.2018 05:22

Introduction The official Liferay deployment docs are available here: https://dev.liferay.com/discover/deployment They make it easy for folks new to Liferay to get the system up and running and...

David H Nebinger | 15.11.2018 22:46

Introduction A client recently was moving off of Google Search Appliance (GSA) on to Liferay and Elasticsearch. One key aspect of GSA that they relied on though, was KeyMatch. What is KeyMatch?...

David H Nebinger | 13.11.2018 23:28

Introduction So often when discussing how to deal with dependencies, we're often looking for ways to package our third party jars into our custom modules. There's good reason to do this. It ensures...

Dave Truong | 12.11.2018 19:52

As some of you may have already discovered, 7.1 GA2 was released as a 7zip bundle instead of the typical zip bundle. This probably caused a ton of issues. Even our own Dev Tools are not yet...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 05.11.2018 23:16

Mitigating RichFaces 4.5.17.Final EOL Vulnerabilities If you are using RichFaces, you should be aware that Code White has discovered some remote code execution vulnerabilities in the component...

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...