Blogs

Ben Turner | 29 août 2025 01:04

Hi Everyone, if you read my recent post on our upcoming Q3 Release Webinars (and if you haven't yet, remember to register!) you'll remember that I said I'm taking on a much more prominent role in...

Michael Wall | 25 août 2025 16:11

Introduction If you have surfaced custom Liferay Object records in the Search Results Widget you will know that the Title of the Search Result record can be changed (Entry Display > Entry Title...

Ben Turner | 21 août 2025 05:45

Hi everyone! Firstly, a quick introduction from me - as I've just moved into the brand-new role of Principal Evangelist. You'll be hearing a lot more from me as I really get going with this role -...

Sudhanshu Mishra | 16 août 2025 16:18

Before moving forward, we must know, What is CRA and Vite? Why we should always use Vite over CRA? Let's have clarity to these questions first.   1. CRA (Create React App) What it is: CRA is a...

YOGESH CHANDRA | 16 août 2025 07:13

Calling Liferay DXP Headless APIs (REST or GraphQL) from the frontend using Fragments, Custom Elements, or Client Extensions is easy and powerful. But there’s a hidden danger: credentials are often...

David H Nebinger | 15 août 2025 13:59

Introduction Since Liferay has published https://learn.liferay.com/w/dxp/development/tooling/liferay-workspace/upgrading-to-jakarta, I think that means it's okay for me to blog about it. In my...

David H Nebinger | 8 août 2025 17:23

Between major versions of Liferay, the internal structure of Service Builder (SB) modules can change—sometimes subtly, sometimes significantly. These changes might affect how services are...

Michael Wall | 7 août 2025 17:07

Introduction This blog post is to introduce a full end to end proof of content (POC) to integrate Liferay DXP with RabbitMQ for asynchronous message processing using custom services and Client...

Michael Wall | 30 juil. 2025 14:16

What is it? The SAML Restore Tool is a configuration driven custom Gogo Shell command that can be used to restore a non-prod environments SAML Configuration e.g. after a prod backup is restored...

Michael Wall | 29 juil. 2025 16:35

If you have enabled the GDPR Compliance for Cookies feature then any custom code that creates cookies should check to see if the user has opted out of the cookie type, before creating the cookie....

David H Nebinger | 24 juil. 2025 16:19

Introduction My blog/project ideas typically come from client and community questions about how to do something in Liferay. However, in this case, I was inspired by a recent post on SlashDot about...

Michael Wall | 30 juin 2025 15:44

As many of you will already know, Liferay has been shipping Glowroot as part of the Liferay DXP bundles and Docker images from the 2023.Q4 Quarterly Release onwards. For customer who are using a...

Eric DARIEL | 29 juin 2025 20:27

This time, I will talk to you about the integration of micro-frontends (or MFE). On a micro-service, it is easy to expose several versions. Clients can easily call V1 or V2 of the same...

David H Nebinger | 21 juin 2025 18:51

Introduction Internationalization (I18N) has always been a foundational concern for global enterprise platforms like Liferay. From its earliest days, Liferay provided a robust mechanism for...

David H Nebinger | 21 juin 2025 05:51

Okay, okay—there aren’t actually falling rocks. But if you’re a developer working with Liferay DXP, especially as we approach the 2025.Q3 release, it might feel like you’re dodging debris. That’s...

Eric DARIEL | 20 juin 2025 15:45

Many weeks ago, David H Nebinger show us how to use React Custom Element and optimize them with ImportMaps. I ask him how to do this with Angular and he answer me that it were not a Liferay issue...

David H Nebinger | 19 juin 2025 16:34

If you’ve ever heard me talk about building single-page apps inside Liferay, chances are good you’ve also heard me discourage the use of things like React’s <HashRouter>. It’s not that I have...

David H Nebinger | 12 juin 2025 16:11

So recently I was working with a client, they were asking about a problem they were having. I started with my typical first question which is "What version of Liferay are you using?" Their...

David H Nebinger | 6 juin 2025 14:21

Just a short one today... So like every few months I either encounter a build error from RESTBuilder code, or someone asks me about it... Basically after generating RESTBuilder code, when you try...

Daniel Carrillo Broeder | 4 juin 2025 13:07

The purpose of this post is to extend the image provided by Liferay PaaS to include a custom module — ngx_brotli, a widely-used compression module that improves web performance by reducing response...

Jeffrey Handa | 30 mai 2025 21:52

Course Updates During the last year, Liferay has been consistently releasing new course materials that cover all aspects of Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay and Liferay Application...

Peter Richards | 21 mai 2025 14:01

I have recently created a new custom fragment which creates dynamic overlay badges for Commerce Products, and I am in the process of publishing it it is available as a marketplace application....

David H Nebinger | 14 mai 2025 14:23

Introduction So anyone who knows me can tell you that I'm a huge fan of Custom Elements, especially when used with Liferay Objects. I prefer to use React for creating the front end and Objects for...

Mariela Santillán-Riethmüller | 13 mai 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 | 6 mai 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 | 2 mai 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 avr. 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 avr. 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 avr. 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 avr. 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 avr. 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 | 4 avr. 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 mars 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 mars 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 | 5 mars 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 févr. 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 févr. 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 févr. 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 janv. 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 | 9 janv. 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 | 3 janv. 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 déc. 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 déc. 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 déc. 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 déc. 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 DARIEL | 20 déc. 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 déc. 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 | 9 déc. 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 nov. 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 nov. 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 nov. 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 nov. 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 | 6 nov. 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 oct. 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 oct. 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 oct. 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 oct. 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 | 9 oct. 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 | 1 oct. 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 sept. 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....