Blogs

David H Nebinger | 2025.02.27. 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...

Jamie Sammons | 2025.02.21. 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...

David H Nebinger | 2025.01.09. 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 | 2025.01.03. 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...

Jamie Sammons | 2024.12.13. 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 | 2024.12.09. 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...

David H Nebinger | 2024.11.25. 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 | 2024.11.25. 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...

Daniel Martinez Cisneros | 2024.11.06. 9:46

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 | 2024.10.11. 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 | 2024.10.11. 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 | 2024.10.10. 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...

David H Nebinger | 2024.10.01. 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 | 2024.09.28. 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....

David H Nebinger | 2024.09.25. 18:16

My good friend Andrew Jardine has started upgrading his Mastering Liferay site, currently on 7.1, and he's going to be upgrading it to the latest 7.4. However, he recently was blessed with a new M3...

David H Nebinger | 2024.09.25. 16:03

Recently I was helping a client who seemed be under a DDOS attack... Analysis of traffic showed a large number of incoming requests that seemed to be doing searches for various expected keywords....

David H Nebinger | 2024.09.18. 12:55

Introduction As evidenced by my recent blogs, I'm still on a React Custom Element Client Extension tear... I think this is the best way to develop custom solutions on Liferay because they are free...

Vinoth Kumar | 2024.09.14. 14:15

We may face some scenario to execute a process which might consume JVM memory and keeps the web page loading when dealing with large tasks like file uploads. Liferay has BackgroundTaskExecutor...

David H Nebinger | 2024.09.13. 5:19

Everyone loves a bug bounty program, right? Well I want to launch an unofficial bug bounty program today! What are we looking for? Bugs related to performing builds using JDK17 and/or JDK21. So...

Jamie Sammons | 2024.09.12. 19:32

    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...

David H Nebinger | 2024.09.11. 1:54

If you're looking for the simplified process, you can skip ahead by clicking here. Introduction Lately my focus has been on development of React applications consuming Liferay Headless APIs. When...

David H Nebinger | 2024.09.06. 18:58

Introduction So I've been a developer for a long time (longer than I care to admit). When I started, being a developer actually meant you had to wear many hats, one of which has included database...

Lohita Sagar Mishra | 2024.08.14. 6:06

CONTENT & EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT Content management features provide support for creating and managing structured web content and digital assets for developers and business users, including a modern...

David H Nebinger | 2024.08.09. 15:21

Happy Friday! Short blog post today since I've just found out that the Liferay IDE and the Liferay Developer Studio (LDS) have both been updated!...

Olaf Kock | 2024.08.08. 13:45

If you need an introduction to what Liferay actually is, we (Dave and myself) have collected a few samples of that as guests on episode 795 of the FLOSS Weekly podcast. Jonathan Bennet and Doc...

Joshua Chong | 2024.08.07. 23:18

Liferay IntelliJ Plugin version 2.1.0 is now available on JetBrains Marketplace for download. This plugin supports IntelliJ 233 and greater. Release Highlights: Support for Liferay Portal...

Sai Tejesh | 2024.07.29. 12:09

Liferay objects provide feature to filter the data with exact content on the field level and generic search that searches in the whole object. It also supports field level search in the filter...

Michael Wall | 2024.07.17. 14:14

Introduction The out of the box Search Bar Suggestions returns Search Result Suggestions. This is great but for some sites it makes sense to return Keyword Suggestions instead. For example on an...

Lohita Sagar Mishra | 2024.07.08. 9:24

Virtual Instance in Liferay 7.4 In this Blog Today we will discuss about the Virtual Instance in Liferay 7.4 version. What is virtual Instance: - As we know that when we install a new Liferay DXP...

Eric DARIEL | 2024.07.03. 17:14

1. Liferay : introduction Liferay is a digital platform allowing you to offer a personalized experience to each of its visitors. Liferay offers CMS, DXP, EDM, Low-Code/No-Code, Publications, Blogs,...

David H Nebinger | 2024.07.02. 19:06

Introduction So we have a public repo we've been using to train developers on Liferay, but we're using HSQL. We did this on purpose because we couldn't guarantee that developers would have a common...

David H Nebinger | 2024.06.24. 23:01

A short blog post for today... I haven't apparently been blogging much in the last two months. Except that's not really true. I have 5 blog posts that have been waiting to be published that I can't...

David H Nebinger | 2024.06.24. 18:30

Introduction So Liferay has released Liferay DXP 7.4 2024 Q2 and Liferay CE 2024 GA 120, but along with this came a bunch of other updates that affect developers. These include: Blade 7.0.0 Gradle...

Jamie Sammons | 2024.06.13. 15:38

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...

Victor Ware | 2024.06.12. 21:09

Java 8 was released to the world in March 2014. For the last decade, Liferay has been creating tools for users to build crafted, powerful solutions leveraging the Java 8 ecosystem. Even though we...

David H Nebinger | 2024.05.16. 2:47

Just a short one today... I happened to be researching Object Validations and I saw an interesting note posted here:...

David H Nebinger | 2024.05.10. 18:45

So I was starting a new workspace yesterday, issued my normal command: $ blade init projectname Error: The command init is missing required parameters. The following option is required: [-v |...

David H Nebinger | 2024.04.24. 13:19

Liferay is busy working on updating the Node version used by the Gradle plugins in the Gradle Workspace from Node 16.13.0 (or 16.15.1 depending upon where you look) to Node 20.12.2. I'm told that...

David H Nebinger | 2024.04.19. 4:16

In my last blog, Creating a React Client Extension, I basically built a React-based SPA that was hosted on Liferay. And I got to thinking that we really aren't sharing just how great Liferay is to...

David H Nebinger | 2024.04.16. 16:25

Introduction I was recently asked whether it is possible to migrate from HCL DX™ to Liferay DXP. I think the expected response was "no", because they seemed shocked when I said it was possible....

David H Nebinger | 2024.04.14. 16:11

Introduction In my recent blog, Introduction to Liferay Objects, I used Objects and Liferay OOTB facilities to have a list of Course Registrations and UI interfaces for submitting a new Course...

David H Nebinger | 2024.04.10. 18:15

Just a quick post today to highlight the Liferay Circles of Success Meetups! It’s a meetup group hosted by my friends and Liferay experts, Andrew Jardine, Chris Mount, JR Houn and Eddie Chow. They...

David H Nebinger | 2024.04.03. 13:46

Introduction So I've been working on my Objects Rule! series and have been working on an app I plan on showing off soon, but I realized that there is probably a gap explaining, well, how do you get...

David H Nebinger | 2024.03.25. 18:59

Introduction I recently advocated for the demise of the specialized Liferay IDEs/IDE Plugins. Advocating for them to be decommissioned is one thing, but sharing how you can live without them can be...

David H Nebinger | 2024.03.22. 15:47

History of the Liferay IDEs I first started developing for Liferay version 4.2.3. Back then, we used what was called the "extension environment" to handle Liferay customization. This was an...

David H Nebinger | 2024.03.19. 15:42

I have to start with an apology. I'm publishing this blog early because parts are ready to go now but some parts are not yet ready. I felt it was too important to hold off waiting for the final...

David H Nebinger | 2024.03.18. 18:55

Hey, so in my blog last week, I indicated that I had the following in my portal-ext.properties file: session.timeout=15 session.timeout.auto.extend=true session.timeout.warning=0...

David H Nebinger | 2024.03.18. 13:53

Introduction In a recent blog, Intro to Liferay Objects, I created a new application for the Masterclass site for submitting and approving course registrations entirely using OOTB features of...

David H Nebinger | 2024.03.15. 19:44

Introduction Wow, I've blogged about Liferay Objects a lot lately. Talked about them too. Also am working on developing materials for learn.liferay.com about Objects. But one thing I haven't seen...

David H Nebinger | 2024.03.15. 15:02

DEVCON 2024 is happening! Dates: 11-14 November 11 Nov: Welcome Evening Reception - 7:00 pm - 10:00pm 12 Nov: 9:00am - 5:30pm 13 Nov: 9:00am - 5:30pm, Party Night starting at 7.30pm 14 Nov:...

David H Nebinger | 2024.03.14. 19:15

Liferay released Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 this week, and in the corresponding release notes, you'll find the following nugget. Just search for "Java JDK 11 Runtime" to find in the notes, but here's the...

Jamie Sammons | 2024.03.13. 18:34

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 | 2024.03.12. 18:44

In case you missed it, Liferay has announced the deprecation of Websphere for Liferay DXP 7.4. The official announcement was made here: https://support.liferay.com/release-notes/2023-q4, scroll...

David H Nebinger | 2024.03.04. 18:13

If you've recently been looking for the Liferay Certifications, tried to find the materials or register to take a certification exam, you may have found that they are no longer where they used to...

David H Nebinger | 2024.02.29. 20:37

Introduction I was recently in a meeting reviewing some FreeMarker templates that were extracting web contents using a structure, parsing and processing the data, and rendering an output. Basically...

David H Nebinger | 2024.02.29. 17:01

So this has come up a couple of times recently, so after some research I thought I'd share the news. In 7.4, built-in support for ClamAV has been removed, and Liferay has no current plans on...

David H Nebinger | 2024.02.08. 14:44

Introduction Recently my friend and coworker Andrew Jardine and I were together in Rome for a Liferay Partner event where we were part of a round table discussion about all things Liferay. Even...

Daniel Dias | 2024.02.05. 14:51

Introduction GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and a range of collaboration and project...

Jamie Sammons | 2024.01.11. 20:17

We hope this message finds you well. At Liferay, we are committed to delivering the best possible experience with our products. We're writing to share an important update about our product release...

Tibor Lipusz | 2023.12.14. 10:43

Features Multiple Reindex Modes: Full Reindex, Concurrent Reindex (Blue/Green), and Sync Reindex. High Availability: Continuous service during reindexing operations with select modes. System...