Blogs

David H Nebinger | 2019/07/29 14:44

Hey, did you know that the Gradle version of the Liferay Workspace now supports building your very own customized Liferay Docker images? Neither did I... I stumbled upon this support in the recent...

David H Nebinger | 2019/07/28 21:09

The Liferay Workspace comes with a great build option that I'm not sure developers know about and/or use - distribution bundles. When you have your Gradle-based workspace, the simple command...

David H Nebinger | 2019/07/28 2:15

Okay, so I'm like working on a bigger project that will be a bigger blog sometime soon, but I really need a current Liferay DXP tarball. When I say current, I mean that it must have: The latest...

David H Nebinger | 2019/07/27 1:24

I was recently fishing for topics to build potential sessions for Devcon 2019 (you're going, right? ;-) ) and one community member suggested the topic of Service Trackers. While I'm not sure I...

David H Nebinger | 2019/07/26 21:02

Liferay 7.2 has an updated Service Builder that introduces some changes that we should all be aware of. From a Dependency Injection perspective, not really much is going to change for us when it...

Dominik Marks | 2019/07/25 9:25

A customer wanted to integrate the german Servicekonto with Liferay. The Servicekonto is an authentication service used by (or at least planned to be used) by several german federal states. It...

Minhchau Dang | 2019/07/20 1:12

Over the last few months, we at Liferay Support have encountered multiple customers who were having trouble with MEMORY_CLUSTERED scheduled jobs disappearing in their clustered environments. In...

Mohammed Yasin | 2019/07/18 11:20

Liferay Forms are one of most powerful feature in Liferay with which we can create and edit form without code change. Today we will be seeing how to use Liferay Form in our Custom Module along with...

Jaclyn Ong | 2019/07/10 0:03

Recently, I was faced with the task of importing a large number of products from several warehouses and product images into Liferay Commerce. The upsert code itself to import the data was fairly...

Ashley Yuan | 2019/07/01 2:31

Liferay IntelliJ 1.5.1 plugin has been made available. Head over to this page for downloading. Release Highlights: Update embedded blade to 3.7.3 Add enable target platform in new liferay gradle...

Ashley Yuan | 2019/06/27 8:48

Head over to this page for downloading Liferay IntelliJ 1.5.0 plugin. Release Highlights: Add support for development on Liferay 7.2 Update embedded blade to 3.7.0 Add index sources option in new...

Ashley Yuan | 2019/06/27 8:23

New Liferay Project SDK Installers and Developer Studio 3.6.1 ga2 has been made available today. This new package is based on eclipse 2018-12 and support for eclipse Photon or greater. Download: ...

Ashley Yuan | 2019/06/27 8:04

The new release of Liferay Project SDK and Studio Installers 3.6.0 ga1 has been made available. Download: For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page. This...

David Gomez | 2019/06/25 7:55

We, as software developers, usually need to reach our users through different channels: from web sites to applications running on smart devices (smartphones, smartwatches, ...) or even through IoT...

David H Nebinger | 2019/06/18 19:15

Quite some time ago I was working with a client that had built web service clients as OSGi modules and leveraged JAXB. During load testing, we found that after many hours of heavy use, the Liferay...

Kyle Joseph Stiemann | 2019/06/17 16:12

Liferay Faces Released With Liferay Portal 7.2 Support! Liferay Faces Bridge Impl 4.1.3, Bridge Ext 5.0.4, Portal 3.0.4, Alloy 3.0.2, and Util 3.2.0 have been released with support for Liferay...

Stian Sigvartsen | 2019/06/14 15:12

Liferay Portal provides comprehensive OAuth 2 support. It can be used to secure both the JSON-WS and JAX-RS APIs, and very little effort on behalf of the developer is required to support it for 3rd...

Olaf Kock | 2019/06/13 12:38

If you're with Liferay for a while, you may remember the past incarnations of this article, and have dutifully waited for this repost, adapted to the latest versions, 7.2 CE and DXP 7.2. ;) What's...

Cedric Dunon | 2019/06/12 7:34

Since the dawn of time people have been collecting all sorts of things: comic books, video games, stamps, old currency and even rocks. However... times change and most of us are no longer...

David H Nebinger | 2019/06/10 13:30

As Liferay suggests in https://portal.liferay.dev/docs/7-0/deploy/-/knowledge_base/d/pre-upgrade-speed-up-the-process, you can save significant time in your upgrade process if you take the time to...

Ray Augé | 2019/06/07 18:01

The question of whether Eclipse MicroProfile should join or be merged with Jakarta EE has come up several times over the past few weeks as the implications of the Jakarta EE javax renaming question...

Neil Griffin | 2019/06/07 17:59

TL;DR Liferay believes that overcoming the javax renaming scenario is predicated on tooling being the highest priority. Proposal 1 (Big Bang) is the better choice provided that the aforementioned...

Koen Olaerts | 2019/06/05 18:32

ACA IT-Solutions has been a Liferay Partner for many years, and is even the only Liferay Platinum Partner in Belgium. One of the advantages of this partnership is that we can view and review new...

Jamie Sammons | 2019/06/04 18:12

Download Download now at: https://portal.liferay.dev/download New Features Summary Online Editing: Liferay 7.2 now allows for editing files online via Google Docs™, Google Sheets™, and Google...

David H Nebinger | 2019/05/31 21:35

So if you've been monitoring your logs, it is quite possible you're seeing NoSuchLayoutExceptions related to browserconfig.xml. If you are seeing them, it's because your users are running IE 11 and...

David H Nebinger | 2019/05/25 1:09

So recently I got to hang out with board members and officers of the OSGi Alliance, including Liferay's own Ray Auge. A great bunch of folks these guys are; they were easy to talk to and really...

David H Nebinger | 2019/05/25 0:00

So just a quick post here about your Liferay build chain... It is easy, when you're starting out, to follow the instructions to install the Blade CLI or the Maven artifacts. It is also easy, even...

David H Nebinger | 2019/05/21 22:21

Introduction So I'm not sure if you've had the chance to play around with the new Target Platform stuff that Liferay has, but it is really cool. If you haven't read about it or don't know what it...

David H Nebinger | 2019/05/21 13:36

Liferay has a complete built-in scheduled job service which manages jobs that run on every node as well as single jobs that run in a cluster. Unfortunately there hasn't been a way to gain...

John Feeney | 2019/05/21 10:14

Delivering a great digital experience is not as easy as it once was. Today, a single web or mobile transaction, such as purchasing a product or registering with an application, crosses an average...

Jamie Sammons | 2019/05/21 0:45

Download RC3 now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation Other files SourceForge Documentation Our documentation team is...

David H Nebinger | 2019/05/18 0:56

The price for TripWire CE and TripWire DXP have been significantly reduced by 90%! TripWire is a control panel that compares each node in a cluster against a baseline. Any time there is a...

Ibai Ruiz | 2019/05/16 15:14

UPDATE: The previous version of this blog implied modifying the portal-impl.jar, but as my friend Jorge Díaz pointed out in the comments: "In order to override a resource of portal-impl.jar, it is...

David H Nebinger | 2019/05/14 2:53

So whenever I set up a new Liferay cluster, I get to the end and I ask myself, "How do I know it is working?" My standard test is to connect to a node of the cluster and view a page. Then I connect...

Jamie Sammons | 2019/05/13 19:16

Overview Find a list of what’s included in the release in the Release Notes Download the release now New Features Summary Portlet 3.0 is fully implemented Documentation Official Documentation can...

Shahbaz Khan | 2019/05/12 10:45

First we need to download the ssl certificate files from the SSL certificate service provider(Obviously you have to pay for the service before utilizing it) then create the keystore using the ssl...

David H Nebinger | 2019/05/09 3:49

Introduction So for the longest time I have been an advocate of Liferay's logging API. Folks have asked how to use Log4J or other frameworks and I've always advised against it. Why? Well, for 3...

Jamie Sammons | 2019/05/07 3:51

Note: Liferay Portal 7.2 CE RC1 was an internal release only. Download RC now! Tomcat Bundle [7zip | tar.gz] Source Code Bundle Source Code Repository Javadoc and other reference documentation...

Neil Griffin | 2019/05/03 19:17

As shown in the chart below, the Portlet API had around 16,000 downloads/month a year ago, and is now close to 30,000 downloads/month and increasing. The breakdown shows that the Portlet 2.0 API is...

Neil Griffin | 2019/05/03 18:09

Back in April of 2018 I posted a blog titled Liferay Faces downloads at an all time high in which I mentioned that Liferay Faces artifacts had surpassed 11,000 downloads/month. I'm pleased to...