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Mariela Santillán-Riethmüller | 13.05.2025 13:24

Hola, developers!  Mark your calendars and get ready. DEVCON 2025 is officially happening November 17–20 in the amazing city of Madrid, Spain! 📅 Date: 17-20 November 2025 17 Nov: Evening Welcome...

Fabian Bouché | 06.05.2025 20:10

Hi there! Over time, I've built myself a collection of simple but useful fragments I'm using all the time when using Form Containers. I've decided to contribute them as a marketplace application in...

Fabian Bouché | 02.05.2025 09:43

In this blog, I'd like to show you how you can not only monitor real time HTTP requests but also transactions running in the background. Short introduction - Glowroot Since 2023.q4, Glowroot has...

Gabriel Prates | 28.04.2025 10:07

The reason behind the idea In a world of Frontend Client Extensions deployed in SaaS environments, we can have a lot of fun and be creative to develop the best solutions our projects and customers...

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...

Mahmoud Hussein Tayem | 13.04.2025 16:26

In many Liferay projects, front-end developers often work with design mockups, static HTML pages, or existing UI prototypes. Rebuilding these into Liferay fragments and Client Extensions can be...

Christian Hofstätter | 10.04.2025 18:51

If you haven't heard of or used workflow automation tools like n8n, you should take a few minutes of your day to have a quick look. It'll easily save you hours, days, and eventually weeks of your...

Bryce Osterhaus | 10.04.2025 10:28

As of LPD-48372, the amd-loader has officially been deprecated in Liferay DXP. That means it’s no longer enabled by default—and with that, so ends the era of liferay-npm-bundler and amd-loader. But...

Anderson Perrelli | 04.04.2025 13:38

Introduction You probably read the title of this article and thought, "finally, my friendly URL problems are solved!". And in part, you're right! The idea here is to share a "cake recipe" to...

Christian Hofstätter | 27.03.2025 20:12

Introduction After playing with Go for the last few days and wanting to check out Microservice Client Extensions (MCEs), I decided to put up this starter project on Github and write my first blog...

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...

RISHI KUMAR | 26.02.2025 05:23

What are Frontend Client Extensions? Frontend Client Extensions are like skins that overlay the core functionality, adding extra features and enhancing the appearance. They function like Oxygen OS...

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...

Chris Mount | 16.01.2025 00:20

Recently, a number of customers encountered build failures in their JavaScript-based Liferay portlets or modules. The issue was the result of a node module version not being pinned or specified. My...

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...

Álvaro Saugar López | 25.12.2024 22:46

Esta entrada de blog también está disponible en Español It has been 7 years since the beginning of this second season of the LUGSpain community and four since the last article we published...

Álvaro Saugar López | 25.12.2024 22:17

This blog entry is also available in English Han pasado 7 años del comienzo de esta segunda etapa de la comunidad LUGSpain y cuatro desde el último artículo que publicamos haciendo un repaso de lo...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | 23.12.2024 11:38

Esta entrada de blog también está disponible en Español Working with Java applications that use native thread pools, one of the limitations we may encounter is the lack of built-in tools to monitor...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | 23.12.2024 10:28

This blog entry is also available in English Cuando trabajamos con aplicaciones Java que utilizan pools de hilos nativos, una de las limitaciones que podemos encontrar es la falta de herramientas...

Eric D | 20.12.2024 16:24

Hello everybody, A small post to explain how to create a vanilla javascript native fragment in Liferay in few minutes. I want to create a small animation for this winter... a Snow Flakes animation...

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...

Victor Ware | 26.11.2024 20:15

Earlier this year, Liferay announced our Java Evolution beginning with runtime support for Java 17 and 21. As we wrap up the year, we wanted to share an update on how our evolution is going and...

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...

Jeffrey Handa | 11.11.2024 10:11

Background As the saying goes, the only constant in life is change and while I’m sure Heraclitus wasn’t thinking about software development back in 500 BC, it applies equally as well to Liferay...

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...

Matheus Monteiro | 10.10.2024 13:07

When developing custom code or portlets, it's common to work with sensitive data like passwords, client secrets, or API keys. For example, when you're configuring OAuth2 to authorize a request in...

Jawad Bin Azhar | 09.10.2024 12:30

you read it right :) , the idea might sound weird to many but if you are like me and have been working on Liferay for quiet some time especially for clients with lots of custom OSGI modules , where...

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...

Jeffrey Handa | 14.09.2024 12:45

Introduction Welcome to the third installment in our series about creating and importing products into Liferay DXP.  In this series we're taking a step-by-step approach that covers all of the...

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...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | 12.09.2024 13:56

In the paradignm of cloud service management, one of the crucial aspects is log management. Logs provide valuable information for troubleshooting and system monitoring. If your project is...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | 12.09.2024 10:53

En el mundo de la gestión de servicios en la nube, uno de los aspectos cruciales es la administración de logs. Los logs proporcionan información valiosa para la resolución de problemas y la propia...

David H Nebinger | 11.09.2024 01:54

If you're looking for the simplified process, you can skip ahead by clicking here. Introduction Lately my focus has been on development of React applications consuming Liferay Headless APIs. When...

David H Nebinger | 06.09.2024 18:58

Introduction So I've been a developer for a long time (longer than I care to admit). When I started, being a developer actually meant you had to wear many hats, one of which has included database...

Mariela Santillán-Riethmüller | 06.09.2024 10:02

Some topics include Low-Code, Liferay & AI, Client Extensions, Marketplace, Liferay Cloud, Objects in the Real World, Building APIs without code, Drone Operations, and much more! Take a look at the...

Madhukar Kumar | 26.08.2024 08:41

We often get ourselves in a situation where we are not able to find the root cause of connection leak and connection timeout. Below are some tips to monitor and tune JNDI HIKARI connection with...

Jeffrey Handa | 23.08.2024 12:04

Introduction Welcome back to the second part of our series about creating and importing products with Liferay.  In the previous post, we talked about getting started with the Minium accelerator and...

Lohita Sagar Mishra | 14.08.2024 06:06

CONTENT & EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT Content management features provide support for creating and managing structured web content and digital assets for developers and business users, including a modern...

David H Nebinger | 09.08.2024 15:21

Happy Friday! Short blog post today since I've just found out that the Liferay IDE and the Liferay Developer Studio (LDS) have both been updated!...

Olaf Kock | 08.08.2024 13:45

If you need an introduction to what Liferay actually is, we (Dave and myself) have collected a few samples of that as guests on episode 795 of the FLOSS Weekly podcast. Jonathan Bennet and Doc...

Joshua Chong | 07.08.2024 23:18

Liferay IntelliJ Plugin version 2.1.0 is now available on JetBrains Marketplace for download. This plugin supports IntelliJ 233 and greater. Release Highlights: Support for Liferay Portal...

Jeffrey Handa | 05.08.2024 20:12

Introduction In a previous post and follow-up, I provided some background on using Liferay's Batch APIs to import products. I realize that for anyone that is new to Liferay's commerce capabilities...

Jeffrey Handa | 01.08.2024 02:27

Introduction This is a quick follow up to my last post where I discussed how to use Liferay's batch APIs to import products. I've had a few people asking how they could leverage the batch APIs to...

Sai Tejesh | 29.07.2024 12:09

Liferay objects provide feature to filter the data with exact content on the field level and generic search that searches in the whole object. It also supports field level search in the filter...

Michael Wall | 17.07.2024 14:14

Introduction The out of the box Search Bar Suggestions returns Search Result Suggestions. This is great but for some sites it makes sense to return Keyword Suggestions instead. For example on an...

Lohita Sagar Mishra | 08.07.2024 09:33

Liferay: An Overview What is Liferay? Definition: Liferay is an open-source enterprise portal platform that offers content management and collaboration tools. Key Features: Create custom...