Blogs

Ashley Yuan | Apr 18, 2018 6:04 AM

New Installers Released Hello all, We are pleased to announce a new release of Liferay Project SDK 2018.4.4 installer, Liferay Project SDK with Dev Studio Community Edition installer and...

David H Nebinger | Apr 17, 2018 3:12 AM

Introduction So in any production system, there is typically a desire to capture metrics, use them to define a system health check, and then monitor the health check results from an APM tool to...

Dennis Ju | Apr 16, 2018 9:01 PM

May 25 is fast approaching. Every business impacted by GDPR should be well underway in preparing for the changes to data processing set forth by the regulation. To address the heightened...

David H Nebinger | Apr 16, 2018 2:26 PM

Introduction I have never liked one aspect of Liferay logging - it is not persistent. For example, I can't debug a startup issue unless I get the portal-log4j-ext.xml file set up and out there. Not...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 12, 2018 10:51 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Alpha 1 Download Now! We announced the Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program on February 19th alongside our first 7.1...

Neil Griffin | Apr 11, 2018 3:15 PM

I'm happy to report that according to the following graph from Maven Central, the download stats for Liferay Faces are trending upward. In fact, our downloads have approximately doubled with an...

David H Nebinger | Apr 10, 2018 4:08 AM

Introduction Recently I was building a fragment bundle to expose a private package per my blog entry, . In the original bnd.bnd file, I found the following: -dsannotations-options: inherit Not...

Minhchau Dang | Apr 10, 2018 1:05 AM

When you compare a CE release with an EE release, you'll find that there are a few additional modules that are only available in EE releases. In Liferay terms, these are called "private" modules....

David H Nebinger | Apr 7, 2018 3:33 PM

Introduction So once you've been doing some Liferay OSGi development, you'll recognize your component properties stanza, most commonly applied to a typical portlet class: @Component( immediate =...

Iacopo Colonnelli | Apr 7, 2018 12:40 PM

Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA6 Release was announced about 2 weeks ago and Liferay containerisers may desire to upgrade their Docker container to the new Liferay version. Well, this is a not so hard...

David H Nebinger | Apr 6, 2018 1:01 AM

Just a quick blog post to talk about compile time vs runtime dependencies in the OSGi container, inspired by this thread:...

David H Nebinger | Mar 28, 2018 2:48 PM

Introduction On a project recently I had a Theme war and, like those themes you can download from the MarketPlace, I also had pages, contents and documents imported by the Resources Importer (RI)...

Jamie Sammons | Mar 27, 2018 4:47 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA6! Download Now! What’s New Bug Fixes - Liferay 7 Portal CE GA6 is mainly a bug fix release and contains over 800...

Neeraj Gautam | Mar 25, 2018 2:50 PM

Introduction This blog covers Liferay DXP SP4 integration with Microsoft ADFS (2.0) through SAML 2.0 (Liferay SAML plugin 3.1.1). Please note as per new update in Liferay SAML plugin, you don't...

David H Nebinger | Mar 23, 2018 6:28 PM

This one is for my good friend Milen... Sometimes he frustrates me, but he always forces me to think... Introduction So if you've done any Liferay 7.x CE or DXP development, you may have...

Olaf Kock | Mar 19, 2018 10:00 AM

An episode on the "Per" things: Performance and Permissions. I spoke to Preston Crary, who amazingly was not mad at me for losing an earlier recording. We're talking about these (and more) topics...

David Gomez | Mar 13, 2018 11:40 PM

Everyone wants to see Liferay Portal in their native language, and version 7.1 will support up to 45 different languages. On the road to the release of Liferay 7.1 we are launching the Community...

David H Nebinger | Mar 7, 2018 12:42 AM

Introduction So originally I presented the blog post, Fronting Liferay Tomcat with Apache HTTPd daemon, but that post featured my partiality for using mod_jk to connect HTTPd and Tomcat. Personally...

David H Nebinger | Mar 7, 2018 12:19 AM

A good friend of mine, Minhchau Dang, pointed out to me that I have frequently used OSGi version ranges in my blogs. I explained that I was concerned that I didn't want to bind to a specific...

Carlos Hernandez | Feb 24, 2018 1:52 PM

Q-Have you ever wondered if you can customize your Elastic Search, so that on your searches in Liferay, not only the words you're searching for come up in the results but also synonyms of these...

David H Nebinger | Feb 23, 2018 8:35 PM

So the question comes up how to do Liferay upgrades. I'm not talking here about the technical details of how you upgrade one particular plugin to another type of plugin, what kinds of API changes...

Jonas Choi | Feb 23, 2018 6:21 PM

Tomcat 8.5 is an in-between version of Apache Tomcat 8.0 and 9.0. According to the Apache site, it contains some features in 9.0 that have been backported to 8.0. This version of Tomcat is...

David H Nebinger | Feb 21, 2018 4:32 AM

So Jamie just announced the new Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program here: https://community.liferay.com/news/liferay-7-1-community-beta-program/ I recommend everyone who has working code in Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 20, 2018 12:12 AM

Welcome to the Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program! During the Liferay 7.0 development cycle we launched the Community Expedition program. With over 600 participants this was one of our largest...

David H Nebinger | Feb 16, 2018 2:54 AM

Okay, in case it is not yet clear, Liferay 7 uses an OSGi container. I know what you're thinking: "Well, Duh..." The point is that OSGi is actually a standard and anything that works within OSGi...

Christian Klein | Feb 15, 2018 9:52 PM

I have been working on adding CKEditor plugins to the Alloy Editor in Liferay DXP and figured I would share what I found. Specifically I was trying to add the YouTube Plugin. There are some...

Iacopo Colonnelli | Feb 15, 2018 5:58 PM

Introduction In recent times, containers are becoming more and more important in the software lifecycle management, whether we like it or not. The majority of the leading software companies have...

Jose M. Navarro | Feb 14, 2018 10:33 AM

In the very beginning of every mobile app project, we can have to face a tough decision: should I go for a native approach to make the most of the device capabilities and optimize the user...

Sergio González | Feb 13, 2018 11:32 AM

I am very pleased to announce the first release of Adaptive Media available for Liferay 7 GA5 and Liferay DXP. Below you can find the links to download the app from Liferay Marketplace. Download...

David H Nebinger | Feb 8, 2018 8:59 PM

So I've been working a lot more with Angular 2+ recently (Angular 4 actually, but that is not so important) and wanted to share some of my findings for those of you whom are interested... Accessing...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2018 4:01 PM

So, as a developer, I'm like usually whacking my whole runtime environment and starting over. Why? Well, regardless how much I try to keep it clean, cruft will find its way into the environment....

Minhchau Dang | Feb 1, 2018 3:09 AM

At Liferay Symposium North America 2017, I had a discussion with a few of our customers on the hidden dangers of rolling back Liferay changes. There are multiple ongoing efforts to improve how we...

Koen Olaerts | Jan 30, 2018 5:59 PM

On October 6, 2017 my colleague Sebastiaan and I held a presentation at Liferay DevCon about a cool integration the COIN team made. We were looking for a fun and exciting Internet of Things...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | Jan 12, 2018 8:47 AM

Liferay has different types of pages. The default one is Layout - it’s standard, empty by default page, which is displayed in navigation menu. Portlets may be added to such page, themes and layouts...

Vitaliy Koshelenko | Jan 11, 2018 1:56 PM

To make some custom class available inside a theme velocity template, you need to put it's instance into com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.WebKeys#VM_VARIABLES request attribute. And it will be...

gulnaaz Shaik | Jan 9, 2018 9:44 AM

Themelets are small, extendable, and reusable pieces of code. They help to avoid duplication of code. Code that can be reused in other themes can be written in themelet which can be extended to any...

Vikash Kumar | Jan 5, 2018 12:29 PM

This blog is for creating an interface which will show number of live users and some other details. First of all create a portlet which will provide interface and then create a hook within the...

Minhchau Dang | Jan 5, 2018 2:23 AM

Welcome to the fourth entry in a series about what to keep in mind when building Liferay from source. First, to recap the previous entries in this series from last year: Getting Started with...

Ignacio Roncero Bazarra | Dec 20, 2017 9:43 PM

Short explanation If you want to convert a third party library of your portlets (modules) into a Bundle OSGi to be used by all modules, you could create a new module with your third party library...

Vikash Kumar | Dec 20, 2017 11:25 AM

<%@page import="sun.awt.RepaintArea"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://liferay.com/tld/aui" prefix="aui" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://liferay.com/tld/portlet" prefix="liferay-portlet" %> <%@ taglib...