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David H Nebinger | 8.2.2017 14:10

Recently I was lamenting how I felt that JSP fragment bundles could not introduce new dependencies and therefore the JSP overrides could really not do much more than reorganize or add/remove...

David H Nebinger | 7.2.2017 15:25

One of the things that I never really used in 6.x was the Liferay upgrade APIs. Sure, I knew about the Release table and stuff, but it just seemed kind of cumbersome to not only to build out your...

David H Nebinger | 7.2.2017 0:33

In Liferay 6.x, scheduled tasks were kind of easy to implement. I mean, you'd implement a class that implements the Liferay Message Bus's MessageListener interface and then add the details in the...

Neil Jin | 6.2.2017 23:38

This article talks about how to create json web service based on Service Builder Service. Knowledge: Service Builder JSON Web Service When we intent to make a service to be a web provider to...

Dave Truong | 2.2.2017 20:09

A search for a better SDK A little over a year ago, the Dev Tools Team began a new project hoping to fix the issues we encountered with the Plugins SDK. We had just finished modularizing our...

David H Nebinger | 2.2.2017 6:14

When you start reviewing Liferay 7 CE/Liferay DXP code, you run into a lot of annotations in a lot of different ways. They can all seem kind of overwhelming when you first happen upon them, so I...

David H Nebinger | 2.2.2017 5:10

Alt Title: Cool things you can do with OSGi Introduction So one thing that many organizations like to stand up in their Liferay environments is a "health check". The goal is to provide a simple...

Javeed Chida | 30.1.2017 16:43

Let me begin by clarifying that this post has nothing to do with the Harry Potter universe. But seriously. You know what I mean by wizards, don’t you? Those helpful series of screens that gather...

Jan Eerdekens | 23.1.2017 20:46

I've been working with Liferay for quite some time now, but I must confess that I still haven't really made the switch from Velocity to Freemarker for my templates. Even though I know there are a...

Javeed Chida | 19.1.2017 23:19

This short post brings together the little pieces critical to crafting an ADT in velocity to provide direct download links to documents in your Documents and Media repository. You will find parts...

David H Nebinger | 18.1.2017 17:30

So in a recent project I've been building I reached a point where I believed my project would benefit from being able to issue user notifications. For those that are not aware, Liferay has a...

Neil Jin | 12.1.2017 16:51

The purpose of this tutorial is to let you know how to involve a 3rd part js lib in metal soy portlet and how to use them in ES6 script. In Liferay DXP we provide abundant OOTB js lib to help...

David H Nebinger | 30.12.2016 4:11

So recently I was asked, "How can panels be removed from the My Account portlet?" It seems like such a deceptively simple question since it used to be a supported feature, but my response to the...

David H Nebinger | 21.12.2016 4:59

Recently I was working on a fragment bundle for a JSP override to the message boards and I wanted to wrap the changes so they could be disabled by a configuration property. But the configuration is...

Greg Amerson | 13.12.2016 4:34

Hello all, First off I wanted to let everyone know that we have released a new milestone for Liferay IDE 3.1 You can install it into your Eclipse using below updatesite below:...

Olaf Kock | 9.12.2016 15:55

Once again: Devcon is over (actually, for quite a while now) and it's time to look back. If only because the Recap site is public. You can now watch the video recordings of presentations that...

Javeed Chida | 8.12.2016 17:42

(or) Why categories are so much more than nestable tags "I LOVE tags," Jaffer managed despite a mouthful of spiced lamb ouzie. Sergei was finding the younger guest a bit annoying. The kid had...

David H Nebinger | 6.12.2016 17:07

So the Liferay workspace is pretty handy when it comes to building all of your OSGi modules, themes, layout templates and yes, even your legacy code from the plugins SDK. But, when it comes to...

Eduardo P. García | 2.12.2016 12:53

One more year, it's been great to meet many of you at our events. This time I dedicated one of my workshops to the migration of 6.2 plugin projects to Liferay 7.0. I knew that some of you had...

Lauri Hiltunen | 22.11.2016 6:28

Software should be modular. It has been a core thought of developers and architects for quite a long time. The microservices style of development and deployment is a thing now, and different...