Guestbook tutorial - Failed to run "buildService" gradle https://liferay.dev/hu/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=119785294&threadId=119478766 2026-06-01T14:38:43Z 2026-06-01T14:38:43Z Greg Amerson https://liferay.dev/hu/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119557976 2020-07-07T23:35:30Z 2020-07-07T23:35:30Z

Thanks for responding with the solution.  It would be great if we could alert people to this problem more gracefully, that you have a malformed XML file.

Greg Amerson 2020-07-07T23:35:30Z Jason Tan https://liferay.dev/hu/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119483597 2020-06-25T09:08:40Z 2020-06-25T09:08:40Z

Found the issue in service.xml in guestbook-service modules.<br /><em>&#34;&lt;?xml version=&#34;1.0&#34;?&gt;<br />&lt;!DOCTYPE service-builder PUBLIC &#34;-//Liferay//DTD Service Builder 7.2.0//EN&#34; &#34;http://www.liferay.com/dtd/liferay-service-builder_7_2_0.dtd&#34;&gt;&#34;</em><br />This was missing on top of the file.

Jason Tan 2020-06-25T09:08:40Z Jason Tan https://liferay.dev/hu/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119478765 2020-06-25T01:48:59Z 2020-06-25T01:48:59Z

I tried to follow the<a href="https://help.liferay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033253111-Generating-Model-Service-and-Persistence-Layers"> tutorial</a> but, I couldn&#39;t figure out why the Gradle buildService failed.<br /><br /><img src="/documents/portlet_file_entry/14/image--tempRandomSuffix--XrJn3z9z.png/18b3d18c-a914-615b-6710-b53caa13c196" /><br /><img src="/documents/portlet_file_entry/14/image--tempRandomSuffix--fnOwRYkZ.png/4feee738-fe4b-f4c8-208b-795078f98363" /><br /><br /><strong>EDIT</strong><br />Found the issue in service.xml file in guestbook-service modules.<br />This was missing on top of the file. <br />&#34;&lt;?xml version=&#34;1.0&#34;?&gt;<br />&lt;!DOCTYPE service-builder PUBLIC &#34;-//Liferay//DTD Service Builder 7.2.0//EN&#34; &#34;http://www.liferay.com/dtd/liferay-service-builder_7_2_0.dtd&#34;&gt;&#34;

Jason Tan 2020-06-25T01:48:59Z