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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...

Mariela Santillán-Riethmüller | 12.01.2022 09:40

For the second year in a row, this event will be global and fully virtual with live moderation from our studios in Germany. We are excited to invite you to another truly international event, full...

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...

Neil Griffin | 06.01.2022 15:44

The following versions of PortletMVC4Spring were released on January 5, 2022 AD: Version Description   5.3.1 For use with Spring Framework 5.3.x (tested with 5.3.12) Release Notes 5.2.2 For use...

Mahmoud Hussein Tayem | 05.01.2022 10:50

Introduction Liferay DXP is a flexible platform which has been developed initially to support developers to easily implement business automation needs. We always face the question “what if i have a...

Mahmoud Hussein Tayem | 05.01.2022 10:37

Introduction Liferay DXP has traditionally offered a wide variety of extension mechanisms to extend and customize the platform. Most of these mechanisms require the deployment of custom-written...

Álvaro Saugar López | 31.12.2021 16:33

NOTE: Recap made by all the organizers of /dev/24 It's been some time since /dev/24 ended and it's time to look back and analyze what /dev/24 was. The main feeling is that the second edition of...

Jamie Sammons | 31.12.2021 04:06

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...

Crystal Santos | 28.12.2021 23:29

When we think about Liferay, we always think about Liferay development style. Even to create React modules until 7.3 version, the React code is Liferay based because you need to have an OSGI module...

Yuxing Wu | 23.12.2021 01:37

Hello all, The easiest thing you can do to mitigate the recent vulnerabilities in Log4j is to set the JVM parameter -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true. While this solution is not perfect, it should...

Ashley Yuan | 22.12.2021 01:40

The new installers and IDE 3.9.5 ga6 which support development on the upcoming Liferay 7.4 U1 has been made available. Community Download https://liferay.dev/-/ide-installation-instructions...

Fabian Bouché | 20.12.2021 12:11

I've often been asked whether we can process additional UserInfo data from an OpenId Connect session after successful log in. I used to share this piece of code where I had my way to access the...

Fabian Bouché | 16.12.2021 14:47

The Apache Log4j project is now saying that setting -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true is not a 100% guarantee that you are protected from exploits. I think that currently no one has found a way to...

Fabian Bouché | 14.12.2021 07:55

The landscape for Identity and Access Management has changed over the years. Whereas in the past, we'd often rely on proprietary or home grown solutions, we can now largely rely on well established...

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,...

Carlos Durán | 22.11.2021 17:39

Nuestra comunidad cumple otro año más, y llegamos a los cuatro. En estos momentos son en los que echamos la vista atrás para ver el camino que hemos recorrido y que nos anima a mirar para adelante...

Brian Lavender | 18.11.2021 01:26

While Liferay has many wonderful features like DRAC, a docs repository, user self registration, and more, I still would like to store my data for custom portlets/applications in an external...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | 16.11.2021 10:21

Esta entrada de blog está también disponible en español It is increasingly common to deploy applications or microservices in a container-based infrastructure, such as Kubernetes or Openshift....

Brian Lavender | 15.11.2021 20:22

Blade is one of the great Liferay development tools. This is true, unless it stops working! Or, maybe you ran the blade installer and the error came up and you now wonder what to do now?! Punt?...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | 15.11.2021 16:24

  This blog is also available in english Cada vez es más habitual el despliegue de aplicaciones o microservicios en una infraestructura basada en contenedores, como Kubernetes u Openshift. Liferay...

Dave Truong | 15.11.2021 15:47

I had a bit of a hiccup when running my demo during /dev/24 so I ran through my presentation again. Here is the recording as promised:...

Brian Lavender | 10.11.2021 04:49

  At the time of this writing, the Maven archetype for a JSF portlet with CDI enabled generates output that can only be built using Maven in order to enable CDI. This currently works with Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | 04.11.2021 19:13

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...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | 03.11.2021 14:50

Esta entrada de blog está también disponible en español. One of the star features of the Kubernetes world is, without a doubt, the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling. With it, we can benefit from a...

Marcial Calvo Valenzuela | 03.11.2021 08:55

Check english version here Una de las funcionalidades estrella del mundo de Kubernetes es, sin lugar a dudas, la del Autoescalado Horizontal de Pods. Con ella, podemos beneficiarnos de una...

Scarletake Bwi | 29.10.2021 01:04

I struggle on this for over 3 weeks. god... my envirement Liferay CE 7.4.2 GA3 Oracle JDK 8 Windows 10 Liferay Developer Studio Version: 3.9.4.202108090632-ga5   sometime, we have to connect to...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | 26.10.2021 19:43

Overview For the many years Liferay theme was the only way for defining the portal appearance. Usually, when a new project started (or customer requested a new site with a brand new design) -...

Anne Durey | 25.10.2021 14:50

/dev/24 is almost here. Have you seen the preliminary agenda? Do you want to improve your Forms game? There's a talk for you. If you want to go code-less when implementing a site, there's a talk...

Olaf Kock | 21.10.2021 18:55

Instead of writing a full article here, let me just point you to an article about /dev/24 on our company blog. You'll find a lot more interesting articles there. In general, they're less technical...

Olaf Kock | 14.10.2021 07:42

In case you're working on multiple Liferay servers, like I frequently do, you might have seen this problem, and fell for it: In the backend, namely Control Panel and Site Administration, they all...

Anne Durey | 11.10.2021 17:40

You thought "I'd love to present something on /dev/24" but totally missed the deadline of the call for presentations? Say no more! The deadline for answering the call for presentations is extended...

Allen Ziegenfus | 07.10.2021 20:34

Did you know that you could subscribe to a RSS feed for Liferay blogs? You can use this URL to subscribe to community blogs on the liferay.dev site:...

Anne Durey | 23.09.2021 14:17

It's that time of the year. You've worked on/with Liferay Portal 7.4. You are about to use Liferay Portal 7.4 to solve a problem. You have any other awesome contribution you've made or plan on...

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...

Roselaine Marques | 16.09.2021 13:27

Created in the middle of the Covid Pandemic in 2020, /dev/24 has come to stay { yeaaahh!! :clapping: } Following the big success of the 24-hour-non-stop event last year... We will do it again...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | 10.09.2021 08:18

Overview   Search is one of the fundamental Liferay features, which provides users with the possibility to quickly find the content they look for. It’s powerful, pretty much configurable, and...

Olaf Kock | 09.09.2021 12:21

In the ancient past, Liferay had a feature to discover individual portlet's rendering times. It looks like this got lost with the move to OSGi - but it's also reasonably simple to replace....

Maurice Sepe | 02.09.2021 02:09

Overview While working on an intranet with on of our clients in the APAC region, we discovered that private pages are not indexed correctly, thus having issues when searching content. Product team...

Ashley Yuan | 31.08.2021 09:06

The new Liferay IntelliJ 1.9.4 plugin supports IntelliJ 2021.2 and 2021.2.1. Head over to this page for downloading.   Release Highlights improvements on new liferay module wizard upgrade...

Yuxing Wu | 31.08.2021 03:08

Downloads: Liferay Portal 7.2 GA2: Patch | Readme All vulnerabilities fixed in these patches have already been fixed in Liferay Portal 7.3 GA8 and 7.4 GA3. Please refer to the readme file for a...

Roselaine Marques | 30.08.2021 06:23

In a native React application, it is common that you have the CSS separated by components like I said here, actually maybe you want to use a separate SCSS to take advantage from SASS. So to do it...

Roselaine Marques | 25.08.2021 06:34

When we generate a React Widget project for Liferay DXP from Yeoman (liferay-js template), you can see, in the scaffolding, we have the CSS file in assets/css folder with the style.css file (set to...

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...

Fabian Bouché | 23.08.2021 15:59

This blog post is the second of a series I've just started. The previous one dealt with some recipes to deal with backend REST APIs integration, using Swagger Codegen, Retrofit and showcasing...

Fabian Bouché | 23.08.2021 12:31

With this first blog, I'd like to start a series about application integration. Quite often, I encounter projects where Liferay must integrate with some backend services. There are lots of...

Roselaine Marques | 23.08.2021 10:01

When we generate an Angular Widget project for Liferay DXP from yeoman (liferay-js template), you should realize in the scaffolding, there are assets/{static_folder}/{static_files} and the...

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...

Anne Durey | 18.08.2021 16:03

En aquel momento era diciembre de 2020 y la pandemia ya nos había dejado casi un año sin encuentros presenciales de nuestra comunidad en todo el mundo. En esa ocasión realizamos el primer encuentro...

Ashley Yuan | 18.08.2021 01:30

The new installers and IDE 3.9.4 ga5 has been made available. Community Download https://liferay.dev/-/ide-installation-instructions Customers Download...

Roselaine Marques | 17.08.2021 08:09

For big and complex applications and take advantage from some parameter and configuration as a Liferay Application, the best way to have total control over your application is by transforming...

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...

Roselaine Marques | 23.07.2021 09:55

IMPORTANTE: esta publicación de blog se realizó con Liferay Portal versión 7.4.1 GA 2, que puede ser usada como guía, pero debe adaptarse a su propia versión (archivo CartItem.js y dependencias de...

Roselaine Marques | 21.07.2021 13:27

IMPORTANT: this blog post was done with Liferay Portal version 7.4.1 GA 2, which you can use as your guide, but you need to adapt to your own version (CartItem.js file and dependencies from...