Blogs

David H Nebinger | Sep 13, 2019 5:32 PM

Recently when I was working on my custom Headless API blog series, I ran into a bit of trouble with my Service Builder-based persistence tier. My SB code was done and working, and I was adding...

David H Nebinger | Sep 13, 2019 1:39 AM

Introduction I've recently started working on a React SPA to take advantage of the Liferay Headless APIs. I was working through all of my implementation details and was finally ready to start...

Andrew Jardine | Sep 11, 2019 2:58 PM

It's been about ten years now, so if that isn't a sign of dedication to a product, then I don't know what is. Last year at DevCON in Amsterdam I shared the first part of my story, The Journey of a...

Christoph Rabel | Sep 9, 2019 4:26 PM

This post assumes that you are at least familiar with Webpack. If not, you might find this post helpful. It explains first why we stopped developing portlets and use a javascript frontend + rest...

David H Nebinger | Sep 4, 2019 11:55 PM

If you’ve spent time rummaging around Liferay’s search and indexing documentation provided here , you’ll find a lot of details about document contributors, index writers, search registrars, etc....

David H Nebinger | Sep 3, 2019 9:44 PM

Introduction Welcome back to my series on using Liferay's REST Builder tool to generate your own Headless APIs! In part 1 of the series, we created a new project and modules, and we started to...

David H Nebinger | Sep 3, 2019 9:29 PM

Just a quick post today... So I've been using the Target Platform like all the time now. I don't want to have to worry about versions, especially those Liferay modules that change version numbers...

David H Nebinger | Sep 3, 2019 4:28 PM

Introduction In part 1 of this series, we started a project to leverage Liferay's new REST Builder tool for generating Headless APIs. We defined the Reusable Components section, the section where...

David H Nebinger | Sep 3, 2019 1:35 AM

Introduction In part 1 of this series, we started a project to build our own custom Headless APIs using Liferay's REST Builder tool. The project was started, four modules were created and I...

David H Nebinger | Sep 2, 2019 11:23 PM

Introduction So recently I have been working with Liferay's new Headless APIs... I have a nice React-based SPA leveraging the new headless-delivery and headless-user-admin modules. I'm going to...

Omar HADDOUCHI | Aug 27, 2019 10:40 AM

Hello, in this blog article i will share with you how to use clustering with Liferay Community Edition 7.2, show the differents used discovery modes (Mutlicast and Unicast), and how to configure...

David H Nebinger | Aug 27, 2019 5:13 AM

Recently I was one of many trying to help a coworker figure out why a Liferay OOTB feature was failing... We had odd stack traces, null object references when OSGi never should have allowed a null...

David H Nebinger | Aug 24, 2019 11:33 PM

So the last couple of days I've been working on a new React Headless app that I'm going to be sharing soon, but for various reasons I've had to refer to the /api/jsonws page to check out the...

David H Nebinger | Aug 23, 2019 6:20 PM

Whenever I start working with a new client, I always share with them my three rules for effectively working with support: 1. Open tickets as soon as you think you will need Liferay Support. With...

David H Nebinger | Aug 23, 2019 5:11 PM

Just a quick post today... Helped a client who was getting a message in the logs after configuring the SAML SP in Liferay using an ADFS IdP: Caused by:...

Milen Dyankov | Aug 6, 2019 9:07 PM

Participate in an Open Source project? Meaning ... do what exactly? The trouble with that phrase is that everyone puts their own meaning in it. Some will claim it’s not participation unless you...

Milen Dyankov | Aug 6, 2019 8:59 PM

As expected (we wrote the redirect rules after all) and confirmed by our access logs, the documentation was the first place you discovered in the new Liferay Portal website. But did you notice what...

Milen Dyankov | Aug 6, 2019 8:47 PM

Have you been asked “What is Liferay Portal?” or “Why are you using it?” or similar questions? Given all the things it actually is and does, it is sometimes hard to find a simple and accurate...

Milen Dyankov | Aug 6, 2019 8:25 PM

It’s been almost two months now and most of you have probably managed to get used to the new websites and domain names. We invested a lot of time into making the right redirects and to not break...

Olaf Kock | Aug 6, 2019 2:59 PM

Same procedure as last year: Devcon 2019 is coming closer, and with it everybody is working behind the scenes to make it even more awesome than last year. You don't need to take my word for it:...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | Aug 4, 2019 9:47 PM

It is with mixed feelings that I am announcing that I am leaving Liferay to pursue other opportunities. Friday, August 2nd was my last day. The Liferay Faces project will continue to be in the...

Russell Bohl | Aug 2, 2019 9:34 PM

This content is meant to be added as a use case to the 7.2 Workflow Scripting official documentation, but isn't ready to go through the full process an official docs article passes through. In the...

Travis Cory | Aug 1, 2019 5:34 PM

Angular is a framework that many developers use and with new each new version there are more features that developers want to use. For developers using the Liferay JS Portlet generator, you may be...

Ashley Yuan | Jul 31, 2019 2:57 AM

The new release of Liferay Project SDK and Studio Installers 3.6.2 ga3 has been made available. This package is based on eclipse 2018-12 and support for eclipse Photon or greater. Download ...

pramod kumara | Jul 30, 2019 11:35 AM

Technological Updates —Tomcat 8— —JDK 8 —Mysql 5.7— —Eclipse Update / Liferay IDE 3 Look and Feel : —Lexicon Design Language —set of patterns (visual and interaction) —designed to be fluid and...

David H Nebinger | Jul 29, 2019 2:44 PM

Hey, did you know that the Gradle version of the Liferay Workspace now supports building your very own customized Liferay Docker images? Neither did I... I stumbled upon this support in the recent...

David H Nebinger | Jul 28, 2019 9:09 PM

The Liferay Workspace comes with a great build option that I'm not sure developers know about and/or use - distribution bundles. When you have your Gradle-based workspace, the simple command...

David H Nebinger | Jul 28, 2019 2:15 AM

Okay, so I'm like working on a bigger project that will be a bigger blog sometime soon, but I really need a current Liferay DXP tarball. When I say current, I mean that it must have: The latest...

David H Nebinger | Jul 27, 2019 1:24 AM

I was recently fishing for topics to build potential sessions for Devcon 2019 (you're going, right? ;-) ) and one community member suggested the topic of Service Trackers. While I'm not sure I...

David H Nebinger | Jul 26, 2019 9:02 PM

Liferay 7.2 has an updated Service Builder that introduces some changes that we should all be aware of. From a Dependency Injection perspective, not really much is going to change for us when it...

Dominik Marks | Jul 25, 2019 9:25 AM

A customer wanted to integrate the german Servicekonto with Liferay. The Servicekonto is an authentication service used by (or at least planned to be used) by several german federal states. It...

Minhchau Dang | Jul 20, 2019 1:12 AM

Over the last few months, we at Liferay Support have encountered multiple customers who were having trouble with MEMORY_CLUSTERED scheduled jobs disappearing in their clustered environments. In...

Mohammed Yasin | Jul 18, 2019 11:20 AM

Liferay Forms are one of most powerful feature in Liferay with which we can create and edit form without code change. Today we will be seeing how to use Liferay Form in our Custom Module along with...

Jaclyn Ong | Jul 10, 2019 12:03 AM

Recently, I was faced with the task of importing a large number of products from several warehouses and product images into Liferay Commerce. The upsert code itself to import the data was fairly...

Ashley Yuan | Jul 1, 2019 2:31 AM

Liferay IntelliJ 1.5.1 plugin has been made available. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Update embedded blade to 3.7.3 Add enable target platform in new liferay gradle...

Ashley Yuan | Jun 27, 2019 8:48 AM

Head over to this page for downloading Liferay IntelliJ 1.5.0 plugin. Release Highlights: Add support for development on Liferay 7.2 Update embedded blade to 3.7.0 Add index sources option in new...

Ashley Yuan | Jun 27, 2019 8:23 AM

New Liferay Project SDK Installers and Developer Studio 3.6.1 ga2 has been made available today. This new package is based on eclipse 2018-12 and support for eclipse Photon or greater. Download: ...

Ashley Yuan | Jun 27, 2019 8:04 AM

The new release of Liferay Project SDK and Studio Installers 3.6.0 ga1 has been made available. Download: For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page. This...

David Gomez | Jun 25, 2019 7:55 AM

We, as software developers, usually need to reach our users through different channels: from web sites to applications running on smart devices (smartphones, smartwatches, ...) or even through IoT...

David H Nebinger | Jun 18, 2019 7:15 PM

Quite some time ago I was working with a client that had built web service clients as OSGi modules and leveraged JAXB. During load testing, we found that after many hours of heavy use, the Liferay...